@article{Ziebertz2021,
  author    = {Ziebertz, Hans-Georg},
  title     = {Introduction to the special issue: Religion and human rights: complementary or contrary},
  series = {Religions},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Religions},
  number    = {2},
  issn      = {2077-1444},
  doi       = {10.3390/rel12020109},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-228798},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{UnserZiebertz2020,
  author    = {Unser, Alexander and Ziebertz, Hans-Georg},
  title     = {The impact of religion and national origin on attitudes towards refugee rights: an international comparative empirical study},
  series = {Religions},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Religions},
  number    = {6},
  issn      = {2077-1444},
  doi       = {10.3390/rel11060303},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-207923},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This paper is concerned with the rights of refugees. The refugee issue has been an acutely charged item on the political agenda for several years. Although the great waves of influx have flattened out, people are continually venturing into Europe. Europe's handling of refugees has been subject to strong criticism, and the accusation that various actions contradict internationally agreed law is particularly serious. It remains a question of how to respond appropriately to the influx of people fearing for their lives. This paper examines empirically how young people from different denominations in Germany (n = 2022) and how Roman Catholics from 10 countries (n = 5363) evaluate refugee rights. It also investigates whether individual religiosity moderates the influence of denomination or national context. The results show that there are no significant differences between respondents from different denominations, but there are significant differences between respondents from different countries. However, religiosity was not found to moderate the influence of denomination or national context. These findings suggest that attitudes towards refugee rights depend more on the national context in which people live rather than on their religious affiliation or individual religiosity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Klug2023,
  author    = {Klug, Florian},
  title     = {The Theologian's Socratic Role in today's Scientific World},
  series = {Doctrine \& Life},
  volume    = {73},
  journal   = {Doctrine \& Life},
  number    = {2},
  issn      = {0012-4664},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-303554},
  pages     = {35-45},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In the scientific search for truth, the correspondence theory is predominant to decipher what counts as true. In this approach, scientific knowledge becomes empirically demonstrable and thus enclosed to the sphere of immanence. However, in theology's approach to question the given status of being human and the world's development as creation, theology does not adhere to answers that are contained within the sphere of demonstrable knowledge or mundanity, and thereby theology presents a fundamentally different conception of truth, Jesus Christ the living truth. In opposition to drawing on empirical proof, I want to reread Christian theology in a Socratic manner that employs irony to question overly simple methodologies and seek further insights what it means to be human and be engaged in the scientific search for truth if the authority of knowledge does not lie within humanity's grasp. In doing so, theology's role is an annoying, yet necessary irritation within the field of today's academia.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Keul2022,
  author    = {Keul, Hildegund},
  title     = {Vulnerability, vulnerance and resilience — spiritual abuse and sexual violence in new spiritual communities},
  series = {Religions},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {Religions},
  number    = {5},
  issn      = {2077-1444},
  doi       = {10.3390/rel13050425},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-275264},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {In February 2017, Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, acknowledged in an interview that some 70 "new spiritual movements" were under investigation for abusive behavior committed by their founders. The number of cases that remain undetected is probably large. This article uses the example of these communities to analyze the precarious tension between vulnerability, vulnerance, and resilience. It draws on C{\´e}line Hoyeau's excellent study of those founders of new spiritual movements in France who were later exposed as abusers. It also presents my research on the sacred in its dangerous connection to the victimizing sacrifice. My basic thesis is that exploring the link between vulnerability and resilience is not enough. Rather, vulnerance needs to be systematically included in the analyses. This new approach opens up a more complex understanding of abuse, cover-ups, and disclosure. It can tackle both the vulnerant resilience of the perpetrators and the voluntary vulnerability of survivors in disclosing abuse.},
  language  = {en}
}