Dr. Henning P. Jürgens
Personal Details:
2003-2007: senior researcher at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.
1998-2003: senior researcher at the Johannes a Lasco Library, Emden.
1994-1998, PhD scholarship holder in the German Research Foundation Graduate Project “Church and Society in the Holy Roman Empire in 15th and 16th century”, Göttingen.
2000: Dr. phil, Georg August University, Göttingen.
1994-1998: PhD programme in History, Theology, and Philosophy at Göttingen.
1994: MA, University of Hamburg.
1986-1994: studied for an MA in History, Theology, and Philosophy at Hamburg and Münster.
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Research projects:
"Righteousness and Peace Kiss Each Other" – Representations of Peace in Early Modern Europe
The more than 2000 peace treaties in early modern Europe required mediation and appreciation through peace representations in order to anchor them in the public consciousness. Such representations of peace were multimedia phenomena, a form of symbolic communication. The aim of the international and interdisciplinary Leibniz competition project was to research and analyse the common vocabulary of representations of peace.
Holy war and divine peace. Interpretations of war and peace in European sermons of the early modern period
This project was a follow-up study to the project "Representations of Peace" which has been funded in the framework of the Leibniz competition 2015. It dealt with the question of how wars and peace agreements were represented, assessed and used for ethical teachings in sermons of the 17th and 18th century.
Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA)
Narratives on Europe today, are often characterised by conflicting views on the relationship between religion and society. However, historical dimensions of these narratives have often been neglected in sociological research, and at the same time, the voices of religious people remain largely absent from legal and political discourses. The RETOPEA project carried out both research and innovation activities to tackle this challenge. The project was successfully completed in October 2022.
Self-Marginalization of Anabaptists. "Segregation" as theological concept and social practice among the Anabaptists of the 16th and 18th centuries
The project examines the genesis, social implementation and argumentative adaptation of the self-marginalisation of Anabaptist groups, and later of the Mennonites, described as "separation from the world", between its beginnings in the "Schleitheim Articles" and the assimilation and migration processes of the 18th century.