- Since 2008 Professor of Sociology of Religion at Wilhelms-University Muenster and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at Muenster University
- 2012 Member of the Executive Board at the Centre for Religion and Modernity, Muenster University
- 2003–2005 Max Weber Chair at New York University
Prof Detlef Pollack
- 2002–2008 Director of the Institute for Transformation Studies at the European University Frankfurt (Oder)
- 1995-2008 Professor of Comparative Sociology of Culture at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
- 1994 Professor of Sociology of Religion at Leipzig University
- 1994 Habilitation (Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology) with a thesis entitled: „Kirche in der Organisationsgesellschaft: Zum Wandel der gesellschaftlichen Lage der evangelischen Kirchen und der politisch alternativen Gruppen in der DDR“
- 1984 Ph.D. in theology summa cum lauda (Leipzig University) with a thesis entitled: „ „Die Religionstheorie Niklas Luhmanns und ihre systemtheoretischen Voraussetzungen“.
Research Interests:
• Religious change in Western and Eastern Europe and in the USA
• Political Culture in Eastern and East Central Europe
• GDR Research
• Systems Theory
• Differentiation Theory
