Former

Susanne Schröter

Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator

Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: Global Islam between Islamist revitalization and progressive awakening | Research focus 3 – Frayed orders: Social Cohesion under Conditions of Radical Plurality
Project management: Global Islam between Islamist Revitalization and Progressive Awakening | Research focus 4 – Overextended Orders: Global Governance between De- and Renationalization

Funding period 2012-2017
Coordination of Research Field 2
Project management: Formation of a new gender order in Tunisia after the revolution | Research Field 2
Management of the doctoral group: New discourses on state and society in the Islamic world | Research Field 2
Project management: Religious and local orders in Java. Islam, the Re-Strengthening of Tradition and Everyday Life on Java, Indonesia | Research Field 2
Project management: Feminist Discourses in the Islamic World | Research Field 2
Project management: Muslim Life in Wiesbaden | Research Field 2

Subject areas
Ethnology

Main research
Post/secularism, Islamic extremism, deradicalization and prevention of extremism, feminist Islam, constructions of gender, sexuality and morality, ethnological modernity research

  • Publikationen

    2022 Schröter, Susanne (2022): Global failure? The West between arrogance and self-hatred. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder. Schröter, Susanne (2022): Parallel Society Structures from an Austrian and European Perspective. In: Karner, Stefan/Wilhelm Sandrisser, eds: European Values, Security, Integration. Vienna: Federal Chancellery, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, 513-530. Schröter, Susanne (2022): Transgender in other cultures. In: Schwarzer, Alice/Chantal Louis, eds. transsexuality. What is a woman? What is a man? A polemic. Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 188-196. 2021 Schröter, Susanne (2021): Allah's caravan: a journey through the Islamic multiverse. Munich: CH Beck. Schröter, Susanne (2021): Jihadism. Political contexts, theological justifications and utopias of normative orders. In: Forst, Rainer/Klaus Günther, eds: Normative Orders. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 405-434. Schröter, Susanne (2021): Paradise virgins, world renunciation and dying for God-the Hamburg cell of jihadism. In: Kostner, Sandra, ed.: Lessons from 9/11. Hanover: Ibidem, 31-50. 2020 Schröter, Susanne (2020): Anti-Semitic, anti-democratic, Islamist. The "Islamic Center Hamburg" and radical Shiite networks in Germany. Berlin: American Jewish Committee Berlin, Ramer Institute. Schröter, Susanne (2020): Challenges in dealing with parallel societies. Basic analysis of the situation in Austria in a European comparison. Vienna: Austrian Integration Fund. Schröter, Susanne (2020): Leading the Way: Women's Activism, Theology and Women's Rights in Southeast Asia, in: El Omari, Dina/Hammer, Juliane/Khorchide, Mouchanad (eds.), Muslim Women and Gender Justice. Concepts, Sources, and Histories, New York: Routledge. Schröter, Susanne (2020): Diversity of opinion needs freedom of expression. In: Bertram, Christoph/Thomas Mirow, eds: Nevertheless: What holds us together. Reports on the state of the nation. Hamburg: Murmann, pp. 159-184. 2019 Seto, Ario; Stange, Gunnar; Schröter, Susanne (2019): Durable Violence in Southeast Asia. Machinery and Scale, in: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12:2, 135-148. Schröter, Susanne (2019): Political Islam. Stress test for Germany, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagsanstalt. 2018 Schröter, Susanne (2018): Der Siegeszug des radikalen Islam im 21. Jahrhundert, in: Gehler, Michael/Vietta, Silvio/Ziethen, Sanne (eds.), Dimensionen und Perspektiven einer Weltgesellschaft. Questions, Problems, Findings, Research Approaches and Theories, Vienna: Böhlau, 261-286. Schröter, Susanne (2018): Islamic fundamentalism. In: Central Council of Jews in Germany, ed.: Jewish Educational Landscapes. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, pp. 331-353. Schröter, Susanne (2018): Religious justifications of jihadism. In: Schellhöh, Jennifer/Jo Reichertz/Volker M. Meins/Armin Flender, eds: Grand Narratives of the Extreme. New Right, Populism, Islamism, War on Terror. Bielefeld: Transcript, 121-136Schröter, Susanne (2018): Religiosity and Islamism versus Western freedom and consumer society - perspectives for a global society? In: Vietta, Silvio/Michael Gehler/Sanne Ziethen, eds: Dimensions and Perspectives of a World Society. Questions, problems, findings, research approaches and theories. Vienna: Böhlau. Schröter, Susanne; Jensen, Andreas (2018): Salafism and Jihadism, in: Monthly Journal of Criminology and Criminal Law Reform, 101:2, 172-187. Schröter, Susanne (2018): Salafism and Jihadism, in: Boers, Klaus/Schaerff, Marcus (eds.), Kriminologische Welt in Bewegung, Mönchengladbach: Forum Verlag Godesberg, 110-131. 2017 Schröter, Susanne (2017): Gender clash in the immigration society? Debates on racism, sexism and culture after the events of New Year's Eve 2015/16. In: Schröter, Susanne, ed.: Conflicts of norms in pluralistic societies. Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 133-172. Schröter, Susanne (2017): Islamic feminism. National and transnational dimensions. In: Cesari, Jocelyne, ed.: Islam, gender and democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 115-138. Schröter, Susanne (2017): Islamism - A threat to internal security. In: Hasselfeldt, Gerda/Ursula Männle, eds: Islam and the State. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, pp. 55-66. Schröter, Susanne ed. (2017): Conflicts of norms in pluralistic societies. Frankfurt: Campus. 2016 Schröter, Susanne (2016): Debating salafism, traditionalism and liberalism. Muslims and the state in Germany. In: Ennaji, Moha, ed.: New horizons of Muslim diaspora. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. Günther, Christoph; Ourghi, Mariella; Schröter, Susanne; Wiedl, Nina (2016): Jihadist justification narratives and their targets, in: Biene, Janusz/Daase, Christopher/Junk, Julian/Müller, Harald (eds.), Salafism and Jihadism in Germany. Causes, Dynamics, Recommendations for Action, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 159-198. Schröter, Susanne Christoph Günther, Mariella Ourghi and Nina Wiedl (2016): Jihadist justification narratives and possible counter-narratives. In: HSFK-Report 4/2016. Schröter, Susanne (2016): Being closer to God than his own jugular vein. Pious Muslims in Germany. Frankfurt: Campus. Schröter, Susanne (2016): Which Islam suits our society? Are there approaches for a modern Islam? Challenges, undesirable developments, impulses for Germany, in: Karl, Siegfried/Burger, Hans-Georg (eds.), Religion(en) im 21. Jahrhundert. Between Tradition and Future, Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag, 135-140. 2015 Schröter, Susanne (2015): The young savages of the Ummah. Heroic gender constructions in jihadism. In: Friedensgutachten 2015. Berlin: Lit, pp. 175-186. Schröter, Susanne (2015): Masculinity research in cultural and social anthropology. In: Horlacher, Stefan (ed.): Männlichkeitsforschung. An interdisciplinary handbook. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. Schröter, Susanne (2015): Modernity research in anthropology. In: Jaeger, Friedrich, Wolfgang Knöbl and Ute Schneider, eds: Handbuch Moderneforschung. Interdisciplinary and international perspectives. Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 70-80. 2014 Schröter, Susanne (2014): Between sastra wangi and perda sharia. Debates over gendered citizenship in post-authoritarian Indonesia. In: Kathryn Robinson, Birgit Bräuchler, Schröter, Susanne, eds. (2014): Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (RIMA) 48(1), Special Issue: Modes of Belonging. Citizenship, identity and difference in Indonesia, pp. 67-94. Schröter, Susanne (2014): On ethnographic self-fashioning. In: Strecker, Ivo/Shauna LaTosky, eds: Writing in the field. Festschrift for Stephen Tyler. Berlin: Lit, pp. 59-68. Schröter, Susanne (2014): Progressive and conservative women's movements in Indonesia. In: Derichs, Claudia, ed.: Women's movements and counter movements. The quest for gender equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 79-106. 2013 Schröter, Susanne (2013): Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. An overview. In: Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. Women's rights movements, religious resurgence and local traditions. Leiden: Brill. Schröter, Susanne (2013): Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. Women's rights movements, religious resurgence and local traditions. Leiden: Brill. Schröter, Susanne (2013): Gender justice through democratization? Transformations and restorations of gender relations in the Islamic world. Bielefeld: Transcript. Schröter, Susanne (2013): The emergence of modern gender orders in the Islamic world, in: Andreas Fahrmeir/Annette Imhausen (eds.), Die Vielfalt normativer Ordnungen. Conflicts and Dynamics in Historical and Ethnological Perspective, Normative Orders vol. 8, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2013, pp. 275-306. Schröter, Susanne; Zayed, Sonja (2013): Tunisia. From state feminism to revolutionary Islamism, in: Schröter, Susanne (ed.), Geschlechtergerechtigkeit durch Demokratisierung? Transformations and restorations of gender relations in the Islamic world, Bielefeld: Transcript, 17-44. 2011 Schröter, Susanne (2011): Demonstrations, Revolts and New Media, in: Frankfurter Kunstverein/Exzellenzcluster "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen" der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (ed.), Ausstellungskatalog: Demonstrations. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen, Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 114-126. Schröter, Susanne (2011): From the natural law of primitive society to the cultural rights of indigenous peoples: legal-ethnological constructions and reflections. In: Kadelbach, Stefan; Günther, Klaus (eds.): Law without a state? Zur Normativität nichtstaatlicher Rechtsetzung, Normative Orders vol. 4, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2011, pp. 201-228. 2010 Schröter, Susanne (2010): Aceh. History, politics and culture. Singapore: ISEAS (together with Arndt Graf and Edwin Wieringa). Schröter, Susanne (2010): Acehnese culture(s). In: Graf, Arndt/Schröter, Susanne/Wieringa, Edwin (eds.): Aceh. History, politics and culture. Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 157-179. Schröter, Susanne (2010): Christianity in Indonesia. An overview. In: this. (ed.): Christianity in Indonesia, pp. 2-15. Schröter, Susanne (2010): Christianity in Indonesia. Perspectives of power. Berlin: Lit, Series: Southeast Asian Modernities. Schröter, Susanne (2010): Feminist re-interpretations of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. In: Lanwerd, Susanne/Márcia Moser, eds: Frau - Gender - Queer. Gender-theoretical approaches in religious studies. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, pp. 46-54. Schröter, Susanne (2010): The Indigenization of Catholicism on Flores. In: this. (ed.): Christianity in Indonesia, pp. 90-105. 2009 Schröter, Susanne (2009): Gender and social transformation in Southeast Asia - Women as agents of social change? Geographical Review 10/2009. Schröter, Susanne (2009): Islamism as a postcolonial discourse. In: Reuter, Julia/Paula-Irene Villa, eds: Postcolonial Sociology. Empirical Findings, Theoretical Connections, Scientific Reflections. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 137-158. Schröter, Susanne (2009): Multiculturalism, Re-Islamization and Civil Society in Southeast Asia. http://www.migration-boell.de/web/integration/47_1843.asp Schröter, Susanne (2009): Tsunami in Aceh: caesura or process? In: Meyer, Günter, Andreas Thimm/ Christian Steiner (eds.): Katastrophen in der Dritten Welt - wirtschaftliche, soziale und politische Folgen. - Publications of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on the Third World, Volume 19, Mainz, pp. 85-105. 2008 Schröter, Susanne (2008): The debate on religious pluralism in Indonesia. In: Schulze, Fritz/Holger Warnk, eds: Religion and Identity: Muslims and Non-Muslims in Southeast Asia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 1-22. Schröter, Susanne (2008): Female leadership in Islamic societies, past and present. In. Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar/Andrea Fleschenberg, eds: Godesses, heroes, sacrifices. Female power in Asian politics. Southeast Asian Modernities. Berlin: Lit, pp. 52-73. Schröter, Susanne (2008): Sex Talks or the Decline of the Occident. In: Gottowik, Volker/Holger Jebens/Editha Platte, eds: Between appropriation and alienation. Ethnological tightrope walks. Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 159-180.

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Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

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Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

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Normative Orders Newsletter 01/25 published

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