Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Professor of Fundamental Theology and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Innsbruck
Michaela Quast-Neulinger completed her degree studies in Catholic theology at the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg (with a supplement in philosophy and political science) and in Jerusalem (Dormition Abbey) from 2005 to 2011, followed by a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham.
In 2017, she received her PhD in Catholic Theology (Innsbruck) with a thesis on Talal Asad and the possibility of a “political theology of vulnerability” which would pave the way for a positive contribution of religions to the common good in a secular-plural age.
Her current research focuses on the interaction of Jewish-Christian-Muslim responses to the epistemic transformations of the “long 19th century”, including intensive reflections of what (religious) authority, tradition and knowledge could mean in an age of shattered orders. The heated debates about sex, gender, family and the (il-) legitimate function of religion in the construction of the social order are an epicenter of these conflicts. Their rigorous comparative study is of serious historical, theological and contemporary interest. Besides, Dr Quast-Neulinger works on re-readings of Mary in dialogue with Maryam and continuously reflects on the future of theology in interaction with religions and society.
Resources of this researcher
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The 19th century as a new ‘axial era’. Some epistemological aspects of the authority crisis
- Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), on 18 and 19 November 2...
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The Question of Otherness in Classical Islam | Respondents
- Michaela Quast-Neulinger
- Tobias Specker
- Alessandro Ferrari
Following the lecture: “The question of Otherness in Classical Islam” given by Raja SAKRANI, three members of the scientific committee of the PLURIEL network give answers according to t...
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Between dolorism and perfectionism, contours of a political theology of vulnerability
- Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Original title : “Zwischen Dolorismus und Perfektionismus. Konturen einer politischen Theologie der Verwundbarkeit” Even after centuries of confrontation, the relationship between polit...
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A comparative study of Talal Asad’s and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na-im’s discussions of Muslims and their (non-)belonging in the secular-liberal state
- Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Conference of Michaela NEULINGER during the second international Congress of PLURIEL in Rome. In contemporary times, the principle “citizenship” is defended as an inclusive concept uniting people i...
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Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL
- Michel Younès
- Gonzalo Villagrán
- Marco Demichelis
- Emmanuel Pisani
- Michaela Quast-Neulinger
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
- Tobias Specker
With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
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Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos
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Abstract Published under the original title "El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado" in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...
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- Roberta Collu Moran
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
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Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections
- David Marshall
Abstract Published as "Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections" in a special issue of The Muslim World marking the 50th anniversary of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center (Hartford), th...
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Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Thinker on Multiple Fronts
- Guy-Raymond Sarkis
Abstract Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Sudanese sociologist of religion, is a committed intellectual whose writings both arise from and respond to the challenges of his society. He calls for a liberati...
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Sa...