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Prof. Dr. Frederik Elwert

Außerplanmäßiger Professor

Frederik Elwert studied Religious Studies and Sociology at the Universities of Bremen and Leipzig. In 2014, he received his doctorate in religious studies with a thesis on religion and the integration of ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union. Subsequently, he coordinated several projects in the field of Digital Humanities. He is currently leading the project Digitisation of Gandharian Artefacts (DiGA) as well as several subprojects of the SFB 1475 “Metaphors of Religion”. He is a professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor) at CERES since 2022.

Office Hours

on request

Areas of Research

Digital Humanities, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Migration, Network Research

Publications

2024

Autiero, Serena, Frederik Elwert, Cristiano Moscatelli, Jessie Pons, and Frederik Elwert. 2024. ‘Correction: The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus’. Journal of Open Humanities Data, October. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.243.

Elwert, Frederik, and Stefanie Dipper. 2024. Annotating Deliberate Metaphors: An Implementation of Steen’s Five Step Method (version Publisher’s Version). Metaphor Papers 11. Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum/Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Collaborative Research Center 1475 ‘Metaphors of Religion’. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.258.

Elwert, Frederik, Markus Müller, and Martin Prell. 2024. ‘Europäische Religionsgeschichte der Neuzeit’. In Clio-Guide, edited by Silvia Daniel, Wilfried Enderle, Rüdiger Hohls, Thomas Meyer, Jens Prellwitz, Claudia Prinz, Annette Schuhmann, and Silke Schwandt, 3., erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage. Berlin: Clio-online. https://doi.org/10.60693/hx7v-he22.

Reimann, Sebastian, Lina Rodenhausen, Frederik Elwert, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024. ‘By a Thread: Encoding Online Forum Data in TEI’. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 17 (May). https://doi.org/10.4000/1209k.

2023

Autiero, Serena, Frederik Elwert, Cristiano Moscatelli, and Jessie Pons. 2023. ‘The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus’. Journal of Open Humanities Data 9 (July). https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.111.

Elwert, Frederik, Giulia Evolvi, Anna Neumaier, and Kim de Wildt. 2023. ‘🙏: Emoji and Religion in the Twitter Discourses on the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire’. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 11 (2): 198–226. https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10071.

Freudenberg, Maren, Frederik Elwert, Tim Karis, Martin Radermacher, and Jens Schlamelcher. 2023a. ‘Introduction’. In Stepping Back and Looking Ahead, edited by Frederik Elwert, Maren Freudenberg, Tim Karis, Martin Radermacher, and Jens Schlamelcher, 13:1–21. Linden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549319_002.

———, eds. 2023b. Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Bochum (version Publisher’s Version). Dynamics in the History of Religions 13. Linden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549319.

Gebhard, Henning, Vandana Jha, Philipp Tögel, Stefanie Dipper, Frederik Elwert, and Danah Tonne. 2023. ‘Metaphors of Religion: Towards a Shared Infrastructure for Metaphor Analysis’. Poster Abstract. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715933.

Krech, Volkhard, Tim Karis, and Frederik Elwert. 2023. Metaphors of Religion: A Conceptual Framework (version Publisher’s Version). Discussion. Metaphor Papers 1. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.282.

2022

Amato, Antonio, Frederik Elwert, and Jessie Pons. 2022. ‘Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts: A Digitization Concept’. https://doi.org/10.46586/rub.204.

Autiero, Serena, Frederik Elwert, Cristiano Moscatelli, and Jessie Pons. 2022. ‘The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus’. Meeting Abstract. In Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts, 422423. Tokyo: DH2022 Local Organizing Committee. https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf.

Elwert, Frederik. 2022. ‘Computational Text Analysis’. In The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion (2nd Edition), 164179.

Elwert, Frederik, and Jessie Pons. 2022. ‘Brücken bauen für Buddha: das Projekt “Digitalisierung Gandharischer Artefakte” (DiGA) und die Pelagios Working Group “Linked Data Methodologies in Gandharan Buddhist Art and Texts”’. Poster Abstract. In DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses, edited by Michaela Geierhos, 267–68. Potsdam: s. n. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6327971.

2021

Elwert, Frederik. 2021. ‘Network Analysis of Religious Texts: Case Studies on Ancient Egyptian and Indian Religion’. In Digital Humanities and Research Methods Ins Religious Studies, edited by Christopher D. Cantwell and Kristian Petersen, 2:53–69. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110573022-004.

2020

Elwert, Frederik. 2020a. ‘Social and Semantic Network Analysis in the Study of Religions’. In The Power of Networks, edited by Florian Kerschbaumer, Linde von Keyserlingk, Martin Stark, and Marten Düring, 172–86. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

———. 2020b. ‘Digital Humanities – Disziplinen in Konkurrenz oder Kooperation?’ https://belter.hypotheses.org/80.

———. 2020c. ‘Stephen Pihlaja, Religious Talk Online: The Evangelical Discourse of Muslims, Christians, and Atheists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018’. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/rmdc/9/2/article-p273_273.xml.

Elwert, Frederik, and Jessie Pons. 2020. ‘Linked Data Methodologies in Gandhāran Buddhist Art and Texts: Pelagios Working Group Final Report’. https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.148.125.

Elwert, Frederik, Samira Tabti, and Lukas Pfahler. 2020. ‘Me, Myself and the Other: Interreligious and Intrareligious Relations in Neo-Conservative Online Forums’. Religion 50 (3): 414–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2020.1754603.

Heinig, Julia, and Frederik Elwert. 2020. ‘Das Journal als Wissensspeicher’. Zenodo, zenodo.3688539. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3688539.

2019

Neumaier, Anna, and Frederik Elwert. 2019. ‘Reliquien, Gebete und die üblichen Verdächtigen: Twitter über #NotreDameFire’. Marginalien 2019. 2 July 2019. https://marginalie.hypotheses.org/1281.

2018

Amato, Antonio, Frederik Elwert, and Jessie Pons. 2018. ‘Erstellung eines Digitalisierungskonzeptes: Gandhararische Artefakte: Abschlussbericht’. Förderkennzeichen 01UG1649X. https://doi.org/10.2314/gbv:1025141458.

Pfahler, Lukas, Frederik Elwert, Samira Tabti, Katharina Morik, and Volkhard Krech. 2018. ‘What do you do with 5 million posts?: Versuche zum distant reading religiöser Online-Foren’. In DHd2018, edited by Georg Vogeler, 335–38. Hamburg: Digital Humanities im deutsprachigen Raum e.V. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/8085/1/boa-DHd2018-.pdf.

2017

Elwert, Frederik, and Simone Gerhards. 2017. ‘Tracing Concepts: Semantic Network Analysis as a Heuristic Device for Classification’. In Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times, edited by Walter Bisang and Tanja Pommerening, 311–37. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110538779-012.

Elwert, Frederik, Simone Gerhards, and Sven Sellmer. 2017. ‘Gods, Graves and Graphs - Social and Semantic Network Analysis Based on Ancient Egyptian and Indian Corpora’. Digital Classics Online 3 (2): 124–37. https://doi.org/10.11588/dco.2017.0.36017.

Elwert, Frederik, and Martin Radermacher. 2017. ‘Evangelikalismus in Europa’. In Handbuch Evangelikalismus, edited by Frederik Elwert, Martin Radermacher, and Jens Schlamelcher, 5:173–88. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432013-011.

Elwert, Frederik, Martin Radermacher, and Jens Schlamelcher. 2017a. ‘Einleitung’. In Handbuch Evangelikalismus, edited by Frederik Elwert, Martin Radermacher, and Jens Schlamelcher, 5:11–20. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432013-001.

———, eds. 2017b. Handbuch Evangelikalismus (version Publisher’s Version). Religionswissenschaft 5. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432013.

Elwert, Frederik, and Sven Sellmer. 2017. ‘Modeling Structure and Content: Socio-Semantic Network Analysis of the Mahābhārata’. Leonardo 50 (5): 501. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01277.

Pfahler, Lukas, Katharina Morik, Frederik Elwert, Samira Tabti, and Volkhard Krech. 2017. ‘Learning Low-Rank Document Embeddings with Weighted Nuclear Norm Regularization’. In The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, 21–29. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/dsaa.2017.46.

2016

Elwert, Frederik. 2016a. ‘Network Analysis between Distant Reading and Close Reading’. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Digital Humanities in Luxembourg with a Special Focus on Reading Historical Sources in the Digital Age, edited by Lars Wieneke, Catherine Jones, Marten During, Florentina Armaselu, and René Leboutte. Vol. 1681. Aachen: RWTH. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1681/Elwert_Network_analysis.pdf.

———. 2016b. ‘The Loc/Alis/Ation of Religion: An Introduction’. Journal of Religion in Europe 9 (4): 297–303. https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-00904013.

2015

Elwert, Frederik. 2015a. ‘Die zivilgesellschaftlichen Potentiale mennonitischer Gemeinden russlanddeutscher Aussiedler’. In Religiöse Netzwerke, edited by Alexander-Kenneth Nagel, 99–116. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839427583.99.

———. 2015b. Religion als Ressource und Restriktion im Integrationsprozess: eine Fallstudie zu Biographien freikirchlicher Russlanddeutscher (version Publisher’s Version). Wiesbaden: Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10100-8.

———. 2015c. ‘Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source: Field Notes from the SeNeReKo Project’. Omega Alpha | Open Access 2015 (May). https://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/open-data-open-standards-and-open-source-field-notes-from-the-senereko-project/.

Elwert, Frederik, Sven Sellmer, Sven Wortmann, Manuel Pachurka, Jürgen Knauth, and David Alfter. 2015. ‘Toiling with the Pāli Canon’. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities, edited by Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti, and Caroline Sporleder, 39–48. Warschau: Institute of Computer Science, Polish Acad.emy of Sciences.

2014

Elwert, Frederik. 2014. ‘Evangelikale Gemeinden russlanddeutscher Aussiedler’. Glaube in der 2. Welt 42 (9): 19–21.

Hofmann, Beate, and Frederik Elwert. 2014. ‘Heka und Maat: Netzwerkanalyse als Instrument ägyptologischer Bedeutungsanalyse’. In ‘Vom Leben umfangen’, edited by Stefan Jakob Wimmer and Georg Gafus, 80:235–45. Münster: Ugarit.

2013

Elwert, Frederik. 2013. ‘Religionsgemeinschaften als Integrationsagenten: Russlanddeutsche Gemeinden zwischen Binnenorientierung und Außenwirkung’. In Diesseits der Parallelgesellschaft, edited by Alexander-Kenneth Nagel, 97–120. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2012

Elwert, Frederik. 2012a. ‘Integration und Abgrenzung: Russlanddeutsche Pfingstler und die Konsequenzen religiöser Vergemeinschaftung’. In Religiöse Gegenwartskultur, edited by Aleksandra Lewicki, 14:157–72. Münster: LIT Verlag.

———. 2012b. ‘Von ethnischer Identität zu religiöser Identität?: identifikative Bezüge russlanddeutscher Aussiedler’. In Tradierungsprozesse im Wandel der Moderne, edited by Dimitrij Owetschkin, 1st ed., 53:245–63. Essen: Klartext Verlag.

2011

Elwert, Annika, and Frederik Elwert. 2011. ‘Qualifikation, Entwertung, Diskriminierung: zur Arbeitsmarktintegration von Migranten aus dem subsaharischen Afrika und ihrer Erkärung’. In Potenziale der Migration zwischen Afrika und Deutschland, edited by Tanja Baraulina, 2:91–126. Nürnberg: Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge.

2010

Elwert, Frederik. 2010. ‘Intime Feinde: Muslimische Islamkritiker und die Integrationsdebatte’. In Die Rolle der Religion im Integrationsprozess, edited by Bülent Ucar, 2:159–71. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

2007

Elwert, Frederik. 2007. ‘Das Kapital religiöser Gemeinschaften: Ideen zur Adaption neuerer Kapitaltheorien in der Religionswissenschaft’. Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft 2 (1): 33–52. http://www.zjr-online.de/journal/ii012007/pdf/ZjR_ii012007.pdf.

Undefined

Elwert, Frederik, Sarah Jahn, Anna Neumaier, and Martin Radermacher. Published. ‘Marginalien: Religionswissenschaftliche Randbemerkungen’. Edited by Anna Kira Hippert, Kristina Göthling-Zimpel, Mareike Ritter, and Dunja Sharbat Dar. https://marginalie.hypotheses.org/.

Projects and Affiliations

Principal Investigator of CRC 1475 „Metaphors of Religion“

Professor of Center for Religious Studies and CERES Teaching

Coordinator of CERES Digital Humanities Initiative

Project Leader of Subproject B01 , Subproject C04 and Subproject INF

Member of Research Department of CERES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

PhD Graduate of CERES Early Career Researchers' Program

Cooperation Partner of NFDI4Memory

Substitute of Study Advisory Board

Former Projects and Affiliations

Project Leader of DiGA

Project Management of Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts , Linked Data Methodologies in Gandhāran Buddhist Art and Texts , Modelling Topics and Structures of Religious Online Communication and Semantic and Social Network Analysis as a Means to Study Religious Contact (SeNeReKo)

Research Associate of Migration und Religion. Eine historisch-komparative Untersuchung ausgewählter Migrantengruppen

Associated Researcher of Digital Edition of al-Samarqandī’s ʿAyn al-Naẓar

Administrative Staff of Center for Religious Studies

Member of Scientific Network on the Relationship Between Religious Minorities and Majorities