Sebastian Schmidt

Doctoral student / scholarship holder

RESEARCH PROJECT | DISSERTATION

Journeying towards a participatory church. Church Development and Liturgy between tradition, inculturation and late modernity

Given the increasing religious plurality of modern societies, which is particularly evident in schools, my dissertation project poses the question of the possibilities for performing religious celebrations in schools. For this purpose, I analyze examples of celebrations from schools in Germany based on questions of a theology of religion and ritual theory. Building on this analysis I want to undertake a systematization and a categorization of the individual elements of the celebrations. Within the framework of this evaluation, viewpoints of different religious communities are included in the sense of the so-called Comparative Theology.

OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Liturgical language(s)
• Dialogue of religions
• Theological and Social Science Methods
• Second/Third subject: German language and literature studies; Social-, Political studies and Economics, teacher training programme

PUBLICATIONS

• Sebastian Schmidt: Gemeinsam Feiern. – Gottesdienste in der Schule. (https://www.uni-erfurt.de/katholisch-theologische-fakultaet/fakultaet/aktuelles/theologie-aktuell/gemeinsam-feiern-gottesdienste-in-der-schule#jump, retrieved on 27.05.2024).
• Benjamin Litwin/ Sebastian Schmidt, Die Betroffenen im Blick haben – Zur Wahrnehmung des Leids von durch die katholische Kirche sexuell und geistlich missbrauchten Menschen, in: Sophie von Kalckreuth/ Jörg Seiler (Ed.), Wegtexturen. Notizen aus der Erfurter Theologie zur “Stimme derer, die von kirchlichem Machtmissbrauch betroffen waren und sind” (Synodaler Weg), Erfurt 2022, 8-12.
• Sebastian Schmidt, Gemeinsam feiern, in: Gottesdienst 57 (13/2023), 141–143.
• Sebastian Schmidt, Liturgie an den Rändern, in: Gottesdienst 58 (10/2024), 114.
• Sebastian Schmidt, Religionen bitten um Frieden. Der Wunsch nach und die Bitte um Frieden eint alle Menschen über religiöse und konfessionelle Grenzen hinweg, in: Eulenspiegel (Sonderausgabe Katholikentag Erfurt/2024), 91–93.