Christoph Baumgartner
Dep. Philosophy and Religious Studies - Philosophy - Ethics
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Christoph Baumgartner is Associate Professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Fellow of Religious Studies at University College Utrecht. Principal topics of his research and teaching are religion in the public sphere, freedom of religion and freedom of expression, tolerance, citizenship, national identity, secularity and (post-) secularism, environmental ethics and climate change.
Research Interest
Religion and Society (MA)
Publications
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Baumgartner, C. (2009). Formal and informal Ausgrenzung in cultural plurals Gesellschaften . Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften , 50, (pp. 165-197) (33 p.).
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Baumgartner, C. (2013). Blasphemy As Violence: Trying to Understand the Kind of Injury That Can Be Inflicted by Acts and Artefacts That Are Construed As Blasphemy . Journal of Religion in Europe , 6 (1), (pp. 35-63) (29 p.).
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Baumgartner, Christoph (2014). Re-examining an ethics of citizenship in Postsecular Societies . In Bolette Blaagaard, Rosi Braidotti, Tobijn de Graauw & Eva Midden (Ed.), Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere - Postsecular Publics (pp. 77-96) (20 p.). Palgrave Macmillan.
