Profile

Professional career

• since 02/2018
  Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University
• since 10/2022
  Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Teachers' Education at Leipzig University
• 04/2016 - 09/2020
  Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Ethical Education at the Centre for Teachers' Education at the Technical University in Chemnitz
• 04/2009 - 03/2014
  Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University
• 10/2006 - 12/2008
  Researcher in the project "Reconstruction of the Discourses in the Philosophy of Science in Wilhelm Ostwald's Annals of Natural Philosophy" at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences
• 07/2003 - 03/2006
  Studentische Hilfskraft am Religionswissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Leipzig: Betreuung der Dokumentationsstelle "Religiöser und weltanschaulicher Pluralismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland"

Education

• 01/2007 - 11/2010
  Ph.D.-studies
• 10/2000 - 09/2006
  Magisterstudium an der Universität Leipzig in den Fächern Religionswissenschaft, Altorientalistik und Niederlandistik

• Neef, K.

  Heterodoxie in der Religiongeschichte

  In: Schetsche, M.; Schmied-Knittel, I. (Eds.)

  Heterodoxie. Konzepte, Traditionen, Figuren der Abweichung. Köln: Franz van Halem Verlag. 2018. pp. 34–54.

  ISBN: 978-3-7445-1113-1
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• Neef, K.

  Die Entstehung der Soziologie aus der Sozialreform

  Frankfurt [u.a.]: Campus Verlag. 2012.

  ISBN: 978-3593397948
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• Neef, K.

  Religion als Herausforderung des Wertneutralitätsgebots im Ethikunterricht

  In: Neef, K.; Kim, M.; Gutmann, T.; Friedrich, J. (Eds.)

  Werte im Ethikunterricht. An den Grenzen der Wertneutralität. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich. 2021. pp. 125–146.
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• Neef, K.

  Politicizing a (Non)Religious Act. The Secularist Church Exit Propaganda of the Komitee Konfessionslos (1908–1914)

  Freethinkers in Europe: National and Transnational Secularities, 1789–1920s. Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter. 2020. pp. 297–329.
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• Neef, K.; Junginger, H.; Wöstemeyer, C.; Alberts, W. (Eds.)

  Handbuch Religionskunde in Deutschland

  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2023.

  DOI: 10.1515/978-3-11-069453-6
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more publications

• The History of Religions in Germany After 1945

  gemeinsam mit Bernadett Bigalke

  WS 2023/24

• Religion in the Public Sphere

  International Master Seminar in cooperation with Bergen University and Vilnius University in Vilnius

  SoSe 2022

• Tutorium Master

  2019 - 2023

• Introduction to the History of Religion

  SoSe 2017 - 2019

• Introduction to the History of Religions

  WS 2022/23

• Religion and Politics

  International Master Seminar in cooperation with Vilnius University

  2022

• Indigenous Religions in Eastern Europe

  WS 2021/22

  held together with B. Krumnow and V. Vitanova

• Heterodox Movements in the Middle Ages

  Reading and Translating medieval Latin sources

  WS 2021/22

  held together with S. Roebert

• Atheist Posters

  WS 2020/21

  held together with Prof. Junginger

• Religion and Politics in the Eastern Bloc

  WS 2019/20

  held together with B. Krumnow and V. Vitanova

• Religious Systems of Meaning

  SoSe 2019

• Critique of Religion and Reform

  WS 2018

• Max Weber on Religion

  WS 2017