Personal Inforamtion of Michaela Neulinger

Education

2013 - 2017: PhD Theology, University of Innsbruck
Thesis (working title): “Between Perfectionism and Dolorism. Towards a Political Theology of Vulnerability in Order to Relocate Religion in a Secular-Plural Age” (Supervisor: Univ. Dr. Roman Siebenrock, Univ. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Palaver)
09/2012 – 06/2013: Pastoral Training, Catholic University Linz/Parish: Freistadt
09/2011 – 08/2012: MA Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham
Thesis: “The Healing Statesman. Al-Fārābi’s concept of ideal rulership according to Fuṣūl Muntaza‛a (Selected Aphorisms)” (Supervisor: Prof. David Thomas)
08/2008 – 04/2009: Theological Year at Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem
2006-2011: Studies in Catholic Theology, Philosophy and Political Sciences, University of Salzburg
Thesis: “East Syriac Christians and their Engagement in the Abbasid Translation Movement” (Supervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Dietmar W. Winkler, Department of Ecclesiastical History)
2005/2006: Studies in Catholic Theology, University of Vienna
1997-2005: Europagymnasium vom Guten Hirten, Baumgartenberg

Further Trainings:

08/2014: Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Summer School
05/2011: European Intensive Programme "Islam and Christianity in Southeast Europe", Marmara University Istanbul
07/2010: Vienna International Christian-Islamic Summer University, University of Vienna/Stift Altenburg
06/2010: European Intensive Programme "Translating God(s) in Europe", Irish School of Ecumenics
2007: Certificate in Journalism, Upper Austrian Academy of Journalism, Schloss Puchberg

Selected Activities:

Coordinator between the research platform RGKW (Religion – Violence – Communication – World Order) and PLURIEL (University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon)
Member of the Diocesan Women’s Commission (Innsbruck)
Organisation of Scriptural Reasoning events at the University of Innsbruck (together with Fatima Cavis)