Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Gräb

Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development | Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Gräb

Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Head of the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University Berlin
1999 to 2016 Chair of Practical Theology, Director of the Institute for Sociology of Religion and Community Building at the HUB and University Preacher
1993 to 1999 Chair of Practical Theology at the Ruhr University Bochum and University Preacher
1991 to 1992 substitute professor (religious education) in Jena
1988 to 1993 Student Parish Office and Private Lectureship for Practical Theology in Göttingen
1980 to 1988 Assistant Professor and Habilitation in Göttingen
1978 to 1980 Vicariate in Bad Gandersheim and parish priest in Göttingen
1979 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) in Göttingen, Germany
1948 Birth in Bad Säckingen on the Rhine
Student of Protestant theology in Bethel, Göttingen and Heidelberg

2016 Research project "Are African Initiated Churches Suitable Partners for Future Development Cooperation", funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); further information on this project can be found here.
2010-2013 Research Project "Religious Orientations and Justification Patterns in the German 'Anti-Nuclear Movement': A Case Study on the Example of Gorleben", funded by the DFG
since 2005 interdisciplinary research project "Individuality", funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and since 2009 co-funded by the Metanexus Institute (USA)
2005 Interdisciplinary Colloquia Identity and Difference between Aesthetic and Religious
Experience
2003 Research project "Religion in the Lifeworld of Modernity", funded by the DFG
2002 to 2005 Research project "Media Religion", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)