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PD Dr. Lorenz Trein

PD Dr. Lorenz Trein

Academic staff member

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Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Interfaculty Programme for the Study of Religion
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 Munich, Germany

Room: A U126
Phone: +49 (0)89 2180-2142

Office hours:
by appointment (via E-mail)

 

Lorenz Trein is a private lecturer and research associate at the Chair of Religious Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy. His work focuses on the history of interpretation of secularization, theories of time and history, European history of religion, history of concepts and sociology of knowledge, and the discourse on Islam in Germany. In his habilitation thesis, he brought the postcolonial debate on secularism into conversation with postwar debates on secularization. In his doctoral dissertation, he examined debates on Islam in the German-speaking world around 1900 and related them to the history of the concept of religion. Currently, he is conceiving two conceptual-historical studies on "secularization" and "religion" with a view to the political-social and cultural language in Germany in the 20th century. His doctorate was completed at the University of Basel, and his habilitation at the University of Munich. Visiting appointments have taken him to the University of California at Berkeley and to the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich. Prior to his work in Munich, Lorenz Trein was a lecturer (“Lehrbeauftragter”) at the University of Basel for several years. Before that, he completed his master's degree in Munich in the subjects of religious studies, modern and contemporary history, and social and cultural anthropology.

 

Selected publications

Beobachtungen der Säkularisierung und die Grenzen der Religion, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2023.

“On Genealogy Critique of Secularized Christianity,” in: Political Theology 22/6 (2021), 457-474.

Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization: Critiquing Max Weber's Idea of Modernity, ed. with Robert A. Yelle, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2021.

“Feeling Religion (As a Matter of Method): Historical Meaning and Affective Engagement in the Study of Religion,” in: Religion Compass 13/8 (2019), 1-11.

“Governing the Fear of Islam: Thinking Islamophobia through the Politics of Secular Affect in Historical Debate,” in: ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 4/1 (2018), 44-58.

Begriffener Islam: Zur diskursiven Formation eines Kollektivsingulars und zum Islamdiskurs einer europäischen Wissenschafts- und Religionsgeschichte, Würzburg: Ergon 2015.