René Gründer (born 1975) is a German sociologist.

Career

René Gründer was born in 1975 in

Zittau Zittau (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, Upper Lusatian dialect: ''Sitte''; ) is the southeasternmost city in the Germany, German state of Saxony, and belongs to the Görlitz (district), district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost Districts of Germ ...

. He completed his doctorate at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...

in 2010. Since 2013 he is professor of social work at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim. He has written about

new religious movement A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion, is a religious or Spirituality, spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. NRMs can be novel in origin, or they can be part ...

s, especially

Germanic neopaganism Heathenry, also termed Heathenism, contemporary Germanic Paganism, or Germanic Neopaganism, is a modern pagan religion. Scholars of religious studies classify it as a new religious movement. Developed in Europe during the early 20th century ...

in Germany. His approach has been to focus on the perspectives of the individual practitioners and how they combine their worldview with the modernity they live in.

Selected publications

* ''Germanisches (Neu-)Heidentum in Deutschland. Entstehung, Struktur und Symbolsystem eines alternativreligiösen Feldes'', Berlin 2008 * ''Der andere Glaube. Europäische Alternativreligionen zwischen heidnischer Spiritualität und christlicher Leitkultur'', editor, with Michael Schetsche and Ina Schmied-Knittel, Würzburg 2009 * ''Blótgemeinschaften. Eine Religionsethnografie des 'germanischen Neuheidentums, Würzburg 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grunder, Rene 1975 births Living people People from Zittau German sociologists Pagan studies scholars