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Central European University
Department of History

Matthias Riedl

Assistant Professor
Chair of Comparative Religious Studies
e-mail:
visriedl@ceu.hu

Research Interests

Religions and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Hermeneutics of Comparative Civilizations
Intellectual History of the Middle Ages
Political and Religious Thought in Ancient India

Education

M.A. University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1998

Ph.D. University Erlangen-Nuremberg (summa cum laude), 2003

Recent Courses Taught at CEU

Religion and Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
Religion and Political Thought: From Early Modernity to the 20th Century
Approaching Religion – University-wide colloquium
Rebellion, Revolution, and Religion
Approaching Religion – Lecture course and Reading Class
Introduction to the Study of Religion
The Future of Human Nature – A History of Ideas


Fellowships and Awards


Professional Activities

Research Executive and Administrator, memorial site of the former Concentration Camp Flossenbürg; established the Research and Documentation Centre under the supervision of the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture (in co-operation with Jörg Skriebeleit), 1998-1999.

Lecturer in Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1999-2006.

Co-organizer of the interdisciplinary and intercivilizational Eranos-conferences in Ascona/Switzerland, 2001+.

Co-editor of the proceedings of the Eranos-Conferences, 2003+.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, Fall 2003.

Selected Publications

Books

Joachim von Fiore - Denker der vollendeten Menschheit. (Joachim of Fiore - Thinking the perfection of mankind). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004.

Editions

Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl (eds.): Das Ordnen der Zeit. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 10. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003.

Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Pioniere, Poeten, Professoren. Eranos und der Monte Verità in der Zivilisationsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 11. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003. (Essays in English, German, Italian)

Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Eranos - Monte Verità - Ascona. Edizione italiana a cura di Elisabetta Barone/Adriano Fabris/Flavia Monceri. Pisa (ETS) 2003.

Clemens Kauffmann/Helmut Klumpjan/Matthias Riedl/Hans-Jörg Sigwart (eds.): Politik - Hermeneutik - Humanität. Gesammelte Aufsätze von Jürgen Gebhardt. Beiträge zur Politischen Wissenschaft, 134. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004.

Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Propheten und Prophezeiungen / Prophets and Prophecies. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 12. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).

Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl (eds.): Die Menschen im Krieg, im Frieden mit der Natur / Humans at War, in Peace with Nature. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 13. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).

Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Religionen – Die religiöse Erfahrung / Religions – The Religious Experience. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 14. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).

Matthias Riedl/Karl-Heinz Nusser/Theresia Ritter (eds.): Politikos – Vom Element des Persönlichen in der Politik. Festschrift für Tilo Schabert zum 65. Geburtstag. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).

Articles and dictionary entries

„Die KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg.“ (The Concentration Camp Memorial Site at Flossenbürg). In: Der Staatsbürger 2000/9.

„Säkularisierung als Heilsgeschehen: Gianni Vattimos postmoderne Eschatologie.“ (Secularization and salvation: Gianni Vattimo's postmodern eschatology). In: Mathias Hildebrandt et al. (ed.): Säkularisierung und Resakralisierung in westlichen Gesellschaften. Ideengeschichtliche und theoretische Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001, pp. 171-184.

„Adolf Portmann - Ein Skeptiker auf der Suche“. (Adolf Portmann - A sceptic and a searcher). In: Eranos - Neue Folge 11 (2003), pp. 115-126.

„Adolf Portmann - uno scettico in cerca.” In: Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Eranos - Monte Verità - Ascona. Edizione italiana a cura di Elisabetta Barone/Adriano Fabris/Flavia Monceri. Pisa: Edizione ETS, 2003, pp. 201-217. (Italian version of the former article).

„Joachim von Fiore.” In: Politikon, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold and Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, http://www.politikon.org, 2004. (= Online teaching unit).

“Zu Jürgen Gebhardts Konzeption der Politischen Wissenschaft” (Jürgen Gebhardt’s conception of political science), co-authored with Clemens Kauffmann, Helmut Klumpjan, and Hans-Jörg Sigwart). In: Jürgen Gebhardt. Politik, Hermeneutik, Humanität. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004, pp. ix-xiv.

„Avanguardia e Apocalisse: il regno spirituale negli scritti di Wassily Kandinsky.” (Avantgarde and Apocalypse: the spiritual realm in the writings of Wassily Kandinsky). In: Davar 2 (2005), pp. 46-63.

„Christian Mysticism.” In: Maryanne Cline Horowitz (editor in chief): New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, vol. 4, pp. 1546-1549.

„Eschatology.” In: Maryanne Cline Horowitz (editor in chief): New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, vol. 2, pp.708-710.

„Einleitung: Prophetie als interzivilisatorisches Phänomen.” (Introduction: Prophecy as an intercivilizational phenomenon). In: Eranos - Neue Folge, vol. 12 (2005), pp. 9-16.

„Gioacchino da Fiore padre della modernità. Le tesi di Eric Voegelin.” (Joachim of Fiore as father of modernity. The theses of Eric Voegelin). The In: Gian Luca Potestà (ed.): Gioacchino da Fiore nella cultura dell '800 e del '900. Atti del 6° Congresso internazionale di studi gioachimiti. Rom: Viella, 2005, pp. 219-236.

„Natur und Sünde – Augustinus über den Anfang der Politik.“ (Nature and Sin - Augustine on the origin of politics). In: Eranos - Neue Folge, vol. 13 (2006), pp. 115-130.

„Weltfriede und ‚Clash of Civilizations’“. (Universal peace and ‘Clash of Civilizations’). In: Handbuch Friedenserziehung: interreligiös - interkulturell – interkonfessionell. Herausgegeben von Werner Haußmann, Hansjörg Biener, Klaus Hock, Reinhold Mokrosch. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2006.

„Der Erfahrungsbegriff in den politischen Philosophien von Michael Oakeshott und Eric Voegelin.“ (The concept of experience in the political philosophies of Michael Oakeshott and Eric Voegelin). In: André Brodocz (ed.): Erfahrung als Argument. Zur Relevanz von Erfahrungen für die politische Theorie, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.

„Dante and the Politics of Universal Mankind.“ In: Petra Huse/Ingmar Dette (eds.) Abenteuer des Geistes – Dimensionen des Politischen. Festschrift für Walter Rotholz. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2008, pp.75-84.

„Einleitung: Religiöse Erfahrung als wissenschaftliches Problem.“ (Introduction: Religious experience as a research problem). In: Eranos - Neue Folge, vol. 14 (2008), pp. 9-14.

“Marcus Atilius Regulus – Die Bürgertugend in Person.” (Marcus Atilius Regulus – The personified civic virtue). In: Matthias Riedl/Karl-Heinz Nusser/Theresia Ritter (eds.) Politikos – Vom Element des Persönlichen in der Politik. Festschrift für Tilo Schabert zum 65. Geburtstag. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008, pp. 327-350.

„Vera religio – Ein Schlüsselbegriff im politischen Denken des spätantiken Christentums.“ (Vera religion – A key concept in the political thought of late antique Christianity). In: Armin Adam/Manfred Brocker/Matthias Hildebrandt (eds.): Der Begriff der Religion. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2008.

„Truth versus utility: The debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the 3rd and 4th century“. In: John von Heyking/Ronald Weed: Civil Religion Then and Now: The Philosophical Legacy of Civil Religion and its Enduring Relevance in North America. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press (forthcoming 2008).

„Joachim of Fiore as Political Thinker.“ In: Julia Wannenmacher (ed.): Essays in Memory of Marjorie E. Reeves. Aldershot: Ashgate (forthcoming).
 
“Sex, Religion, and Politics – The Bacchanalian Affair Reconsidered.” In: Proceedings of the 6th European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) and International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) Special Conference, Bucharest 2006 (forthcoming).


Work in Progress

Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl (eds.): Gott oder Götter? / God or Gods? Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 15. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (forthcoming 2008).

Matthias Riedl/Julia Eva Wannenmacher (eds.): The Companion to Joachim of Fiore. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming 2008).

Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Die Stadt: Achse und Zentrum der Welt / The City: Axis and Centre of the World. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 16. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (forthcoming).

Nadia Al-Bagdadi/David Marno/Matthias Riedl (eds.): The Apocalyptic Complex. Budapest: CEU Press (forthcoming).



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