Prof. Dr. Oleg Dik
Olek Dik, Professor for Urban Theology & Sociology am TSB
▶︎ Ph. D. Religious Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, 05/2015.
▶︎ M. A. Religion and Culture, Humboldt University Berlin, 09/2009.
▶︎ M. A. Biblical Theology, University of Gloucestershire, 09/2006.
Degrees
▶︎ 017-present: Professor for urban Theology and Sociology at Evangelische Hochschule Tabor / Theologisches Studienzentrum Berlin.
▶︎ 2017 – present: Lecturer in Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University Berlin and at University of Leipzig (2016/17).
Employment
▶︎ 2019/2020: Visiting scholar at Yale University, New Haven.
▶︎ 2010/2011: Research fellow at Orient Institute Beirut, Lebanon.
Scholarships
Memberships
▶︎ German Sociological Association (DGS)
Research Interests
Church & Society
Immigration & Pluralism
Urban/Intercultural Theology
Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity in Lebanon
Christian-Muslim Relations
Social Change & Innovation
Secularization Theories
History of Innovation
Technology & Change
Interdisciplinary Theology of Innovation
Mysticism & Innovation
Pastoral Theology
Worship & Ritual Studies
Spiritual Formation
Intercultural Ministry
Anthropology
Historical Anthropology
Embodiment Theories
Gnosticism & Transhumanism
Anthropology in Russian Literature
Monographes
▶︎ Dik, O. (2022). Church, Immigration & Pluralism. Paradoxical reformation after German Christendom. Muenster: LIT.
▶︎ (2017). Realness through Mediating Body: The Emergence of Charismatic/Pentecostal Communities in Beirut. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
▶︎ (ed. with John Dik, forthcoming with Brill). Apocalypse & Totalitarianism. On paradoxical relation between religious and secular patterns.
▶︎ (forthcoming with Wipf & Stock, Series Theopolitical Visions). Worship or Suicide. Paradoxical Church & Post-liberal Society.
Articles
▶︎ Dik, O. (2019). Conversion Dialogue and Resilient Pluralism. In Andrew P. Lynch (Ed.), Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics. Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Vol. 10. Leiden: Brill.
▶︎ (2019). Die Zukunft der Christen im Nahen Osten. Mit Gott auf der Globalisierungs – Welle reiten? Forum Weltkirche, p. 16-21.
▶︎ (2013). Does it Matter whether the Holy Spirit Spoke to Fatima? In G. Giordan and L. Woodhead (Eds.), Prayer in Religion and Spirituality. Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Vol. 4 (pp. 281-299). Leiden: Brill.
Bookchapters
▶︎ Dik, O. (forthcoming). “Die Dilemmas & die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Liberalismus”. Hannover: ibidem.
▶︎ (2022). “Freiheit durch Kreuzigung. Cancel culture aus religionshistorischer Perspektive”. In S. Beppler-Spahl (Ed.) Meinungsfreiheit & Cancel Culture. Berlin: Novo Argumente.
▶︎ (2019). “Viktimisierung des Anderen: Konsequenzen für Soziale Arbeit im Zuge der Pluralisierung.” In C. Rahnfeld (Ed.) Theologie und Soziale Arbeit im Gespräch. Eine Gesellschaft – viele Herausforderungen, (pp. 145-167). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
▶︎ (2013). Your Prayer Moves God. In L. Hustinx and J. von Essen (Eds.) Religion and Volunteering. Complex, contested and ambiguous relationship. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies (pp. 263-283). New York: Springer.