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