GRK 1728: Theology as an Academic Discipline. A Historical and Systematical Analysis of the Formation of Reflexivity in Religious Traditions

最近的学术神学是一个长期的历史过程的结果，这在不同的宗教传统中建立了反身性的形式和机构。这一进程对于宗教之间以及宗教本身与世俗世界之间的任何对话都至关重要。虽然宗教的多样性是当今（后）世俗社会的焦点，但神学的分析潜力及其作为一门学科的“科学”特征被认为是不稳定的。在此背景下，研究训练小组重建的历史形成和宪法的神学反思性的示范领域，并在同一时间，提供了一个合理的基础，今天的宗教规范性的系统帐户。研究培训小组不仅参与不同的规范宗教传统，由各自的神学代表，但通过包括相关的非神学学科也促进了跨学科，教派间和宗教间的话语，其目的是关于神学的出现和目的相互启发。在具体研究课题方面，研究培训小组侧重于宗教传统本身与其“世俗”环境之间冲突的典型领域。与宗教研究、社会学和心理学中更注重经验的方法相比，研究培训小组不太强调对不同宗教现象的中性描述，但对宗教的反思性自我描述及其规范性主张和论点进行分析。在学术组织层面，研究培训小组建立并加强了新教和天主教神学、哲学和历史系与歌德大学伊斯兰研究所之间现有的跨学科合作（主要研究领域：“宗教对话”）。这也适用于与圣格奥尔根哲学-神学学院和海德堡法学院的合作。研究培训小组将帮助在德国建立伊斯兰神学作为一门学科。它旨在培养具有跨宗教能力的校友从事学术、政治、社会和宗教事业，并为妇女在神学领域创造平等机会。

Recent academic theology is the result of a long historical process, which established forms and institutions of reflexivity within different religious traditions. This process is fundamental for any dialogue among religions themselves and between religion as such and the secular world. Although the multifarious presence of religion(s) is very much in the focus of todays (post) secular society, the analytical potential of theology and its "scientific" character as an academic discipline is regarded as precarious. Against this background, the Research Training Group reconstructs the historical formation and constitution of theological reflexivity in exemplary fields and, at the same time, offers a systematic account of a rational basis for religious normativity today. The Research Training Group not only engages the different normative religious traditions, represented by the respective theologies, but by including relevant non-theological disciplines also fosters a transdisciplinary, interconfessional and interreligious discourse, which aims at a mutual illumination about the emergence and purpose of theology. On the level of specific topics of research, the Research Training Group focusses on exemplary fields of conflict between the religious traditions themselves and with their "secular" surroundings. In contrast to more empirical approaches in religious studies, sociology and psychology, the Research Training Group puts a lesser emphasis on a neutral description of the diverse religious phenomena, but provides an analysis of the reflexive self-description of religions and their normative claims and argumentations. On the level of academic organisation, the Research Training Group builds on and strengthens existing interdisciplinary cooperation between the faculties of protestant and catholic theology, philosophy and history and the Institute of Islamic Studies at the Goethe University (main research area: "Religion in Dialogue"). This applies also to the cooperation with the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen and the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg. The Research Training Group will help to establish Islamic theology as an academic discipline in Germany. It aims at bringing forth alumni with an interreligious competence for academic, political, social and religious careers, and at creating equal opportunities for women in the theologies.