Daniel Carl Freitag, Mag. theol.
Current affiliations
- Institute of Ethics and Adjacent Social Sciences (IfES)
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Interdisciplinary studies on antisemitism
- Religion and conspiracy myths
- Peace ethics and security politics
- Political ethics and Politics of religion
- Sociology of Religion and Church sociology (focus on Germany)
Academic Education | |
| since 06/2023 | Doctoral Scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation |
| since 09/2021 | 1st Theological Examination (Protestant Church of Westphalia) / Magister Theologiae of the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg |
| 11/2024 - 10/2025 | Research Affiliate at the research lab ‘Social Media & Hate’ and ‘Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism’ at Indiana University (supervised by Prof. Günther Jikeli) |
| 01/2025 - 04/2025 | Research stay as visiting affiliate in the USA at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) at Indiana University Bloomington (supervised by Prof. Günther Jikeli and Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld) |
| 05/2024 | Visiting scholar at the "Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry" and in the "Irwin Cotler Fellowship Program" at Tel Aviv University (supervised by Prof. Uriya Shavit and Dr. Carl Yonker) |
| 10/2023 - 12/2023 | "Junior Visiting Fellowship Programme" at the Centro Melantone in Rome: opportunity for research and project presentation at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies supervised by Prof. Rabbi David Meyer and Prof. Massimo Gargiulo) and the Waldensian Theological Faculty (supervised by Prof. Daniele Garrone and Prof. Lothar Vogel) |
| 10/2022 - 03/2023 | Doctoral student in the graduate school programme of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster (under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt and PD Dr. Felicity Jensz) |
| 2014 - 2021 | Studies of Protestant Theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg |
| 2014 - 2021 | Scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation |
| 11/2021 - 12/2021 | Internship abroad in Brussels at the Representation Office of the Protestant Church in Germany (under the mentorship of OKR'in Katrin Hatzinger) |
| 09/2018 | Internship in the German Bundestag (under the mentorship of MdB Sybille Benning) |
| 03/2018 - 06/2018 | Internship abroad in Jerusalem at the Evangelical-Lutheran Congregation of the German Language (under the mentorship of Propst Wolfgang Schmidt) |
| 2005 - 2013 | Immanuel-Kant High School in Bad Oeynhausen (Degree: German Abitur) |
Work Experience | |
| since 02/2022 | Research assistant at the Institute for Ethics and Related Social Sciences (IfES) at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster (Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha) |
| 02/2023 - 05/2023 | Research assistant at the office of the Center for Religion and Modernity (CRM) at the University of Münster |
| 04/2022 - 12/2022 | Research assistant at the office of the Center for Religion and Modernity (CRM) at the University of Münster |
| 01/2019 - 09/2020 | Student assistant at the Chair of Ethics (Systematics) at the Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. Klaus Tanner) |
Functions and Memberships | |
| since 10/2022 | Member, Research Cloud 5 "Memory and Forgetting", Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster |
| since 03/2022 | Münsteraner Verein für Ethik e.V. |
Publications
von Scheliha, Arnulf;
Klinge, Henrik;
Freitag, Daniel C.;
Piefkowski, Hannah (2026) In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche, 123(1). Review article (journal) |