Ulrike E. Auga
Prof. habil. theol. Dr. phil. Ulrike E. Auga is Professor of Religious Studies, Intercultural Theology and Ecumenism at Hamburg University, Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton and Associated Researcher at the IRTG “Transformative Religion. Religion as Situated Knowledge in Processes of Social Knowledge Production” at Humboldt University of Berlin. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and a Habilitation in Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology. She was Bonhoeffer Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary New York, Columbia University; Kaethe Leichter Visiting Professor in Vienna; United Nations Guest Professor in Reykjavík; Mary Douglas Visiting Professor in Lausanne; Visiting Professor in Salzburg and at the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) at Canterbury University. For her achievements, she received the Kaethe Leichter Award at the University of Vienna in 2017 and the Mary Douglas Award at the University of Lausanne in 2020. She is president of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender (IARG) and co-editor of the “Routledge Critical Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality” series, the series “African Connections in Postcolonial Theory and Literatures” as well as of the peer reviewed Journal “Religion & Gender”. Her work has been shaped by the participation in the Peaceful Revolution 1989 in East-Germany; her life in Johannesburg, Bamako and Jerusalem, and her research on Mongolia, South Korea and Japan. Ulrike E. Auga’s specialisations include postcolonial, postsecular, gender/queer, posthuman epistemology and religions; gender and religion in transition processes; visuality and the space age. Her current main interest lies in the study of culture, religion, postmigration, super-diversity in transition processes in the 20/21 century (Europe, Africa, Middle East, East Asia).
Selected Publications
Auga, Ulrike E., An Epistemology of Religion and Gender: Biopolitics – Performativity – Agency, London / New York: Routledge 2020 [paperback 2021].
Auga, Ulrike E., “Religion und Geschlecht als diskursive, intersektionale, performative Kategorien der Wissensproduktion. Zum epistemischen Bruch von Religionskonzepten unter postsäkularen Bedingungen”, in: Paragrana 31(2022) 1, 1-15.
Auga, Ulrike E., “Wissenschaftliche Konstruktionen des Hinduismus, des Buddhismus und der Weltreligionen. Ein Beitrag zur Dekolonisierung und Desidentifizierung der Religionswissenschaft”, in: Jäger, Sarah; Pausch, Eberhard (eds.), Kampf der Kulturen. Kultur, Religion und Identität, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2022, 141-158.
Auga, Ulrike E., “Postcolonial Studies, Religion und Postsäkularität. (Miss-)Verständnisse von Identitätspolitik und ihre Folgen”, in: Heimbach-Steins, Marianne (ed.), Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften, Vol. 61, Postkoloniale Theorien und Sozialethik, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2020, 85-114.