Dr. Mehmet T. Kalender
Post-doctoral researcher at the chair of Prof. Dr. Alexander-Kenneth Nagel (Department III: Cultural Sociology)
Research interests:
- Formation and Practice of 'liberal' Islam in Germany
- Interfaith activities, gardens of religions, plural spatial arrangements
- Systematic interests: religious situations, religion and space, constructions of tradition and authority, materiality of religion
- Methodological interests: qualitative methods in the study of religion, especially social scientific ethnography and thick description
Teaching interests:
- Religion in spatial theoretical perspective
- Materiality of religion/religious object culture
- Introduction to qualitative methods in social science research on religion
- Religious practice, especially in the field of Islam
- Creation and codification process of the Quran