Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Ebert
Islamic Law

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Secularisation and Islamisation in Islamic countries, transfer of juridical conceptions, concepts of tolerance in Islam, Islamic law in its application and its modification        

Prof. Dr. Klaus Fitschen 
Church History 

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme: 
Simultaneity and non-simultaneity of Christianity and secularity in antiquity and modernity

PD Dr. Thomas Hase
Religious Studies

Research Interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Social organisation of religious differentiation; indifferentism, scepticism and atheism as nonconformism; secularity and the practice of tolerance

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Höpken
History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Development of the relation between the secular and the sacred in South-Eastern Europe; correlations of religion, secularity, nation and nationalism

PD Dr. phil. habil Stefan Keym
Musicology

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Music and religion

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleine 
History of Religion 

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Structural analogies of differentiation in secular and sacred segments of culture within "pre-modern" Japan from system theoretical perspective, positive conceptualisation of secularity, culture-specific formations of secularity

Prof. Dr. Michaela Marek
History of Art

Research Interest in the Ph.D. programme: 
Status of  the arts and of the arts' agents within processes of functional differentiation, aspects of secular and sacred meanings in medieval and modern arts, articulation and implementation of secular positions within the arts

Prof. Dr. Gert Pickel
Sociology of Religion
Head of the Ph.D. programme

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Processes of secularisation and their countermovements, comparative analysis of the expansions and the assertions of secularity, processes of passing-on secularity or religiosity

Prof. Dr. Hubert Seiwert
Religious Studies

Reseach interest in the Ph.D. programme:
Processes of secularisation and their countermovements in global comparison, theory and methodology within religious studies, comparative research on religion

Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Cultural Sociology

Research interest in the Ph.D. programme: 
Analysis and comparison of cultural formations of secularity, conflicts in the demarcation of secularity and religiosity in modern societies