Postdoctoral research fellow at the project of
John Templeton Foundation
Robert-Koch-Str. 29
48149 Münster
Germany
linda.hennig@uni-muenster.de
Education
2015–09/2019
Binational PhD/ Cotutelle de thèse (WWU Münster/ Strasbourg University): Arranging Muslim Religiosity and Occupational Activity in Daily Life. Professional Biographies of Women in France and Germany.
10/2005–09/2012
Diploma in Sociology, Technical University (TU) Dresden, Germany. Thesis: Identity and Religious Practices of Muslim Migrants. Islam and Secularization.
09/2011–06/2012
Master: Productions et médiations des formes Culturelles: Médiation, Art et Culture, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble (in cooperation with TU Dresden).
09/2001–08/2004
Diploma in Public Administration, University for Applied Sciences, Department for Labor Administration, Mannheim, Germany.
Positions
Since 10/2019
Post-Doc Researcher at the Center for Religion and Modernity, WWU Münster. Research Project: “The transmission of religion across generations: a comparative international study of continuities and discontinuities in family socialization”, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
12/2016–09/2019
Research Assistant at the Center for Religion and Modernity, Münster University / Graduate School RePliR (Regulating Religious Plurality in the Region).
11/2015–01/2016
Trainee at the NGO “Arbeit und Leben DGB/VHS Berlin-Brandenburg“, Sector of “International Education“, “Education and E-Government“, “Diversity”.
02/2013–12/2014
Private Professor for German Courses, Paris.
10/2008–09/2009
Student Assistant, Institute for Sociology (TU Dresden), Chair of Sociology of Technics and Organization.
09/2004–08/2009
Placement Officer, Employment Agency Dresden.
Talks
The role of religious practices such as going to church, singing, and praying in the transmission of religion across three generations. European Academy of Religion Conference, WWU Münster, 08/2021.
Identité religieuse et activité professionnelle : quelle articulation? Colloque sur la protection de la personne du travailleur (Groupe d’Étude Franco-Allemand sur le Contentieux du Travail). Université de Strasbourg, 11/2021.
Continuity and discontinuity of religion, beliefs and values across three generations of German families with close emotional bonds, ISSR Conference 07/2021 digital.
Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt als Herausforderung: Ursachen und Bewältigungsformen am Beispiel muslimisch-gläubiger Arbeitnehmerinnen des sozialen/medizinischen Sektors, Teilhabekolloquium des Instituts für Teilhabeforschung, Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen (KatHO NRW), 04/2021.
“Lived Catholicism” – A case study of a religiously vital catholic family in Germany (with Lilo Ruther), Lived Catholicism Conference, Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, 11/2020.
Vereinbarkeitsprobleme und kreative Lösungen. Ergebnisse einer deutsch-französischen Studie der Berufsbiografien von Musliminnen. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 09/2020 digital.
Passing Down Islam in Guest Workers Families: An Intergenerational Debt? ESA 34 Midterm Conference: Religions and Identities in the European Migration Crisis, 08/2018, Turin.
Religion and Regulation in Organisations, EASR Conference, 06/2018, Bern.
„Ok, und wie ist es jetzt im Islam?“ Zuschreibungen in pluralistischen Settings, Tagung der Katholischen Akademie Die Wolfsburg „Religion findet Stadt“,
11/2017, Mühlheim an der Ruhr.
Islam als Ressource für berufliche Neuorientierungen? Konferenz der Fachgesellschaften D-A-CH und GeStiK Köln: „Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Geschlechterforschung“, 09/2017, Universität zu Köln.
Muslim Religion – bridge or barrier to labor market integration? European Sociological Association Conference, 08/2017, Athen.
Negotiations between work and religion – biographical case studies of pious Muslim women in Germany and France, ISSR Conference, 07/2017, Lausanne.
Religion als Ressource für berufliche Positionierungen im Spannungsfeld von ethnischen, geschlechtsspezifischen und klassenspezifischen Differenzen. Konferenz der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Einrichtungen für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in Niedersachsen: Politiken der Reproduktion, 03/2017, Hannover.
La féminisation des bastions masculins – un pas vers l‘égalité ? Une perspective allemande. Colloque International de l’Observatoire Tunisien de la Sécurité Globale : Femme, Paix et sécurité. La question du gendre au sein des forces de sécurité, 03/2017, Tunis.
Marginalité et pouvoir : concepts sociologiques et analyse de cas de la trajectoire d’une femme médecin, Kolloquium CIERA: La Marginalité: objet d’études, outil méthodologique, 10/2015, Lyon.
Religiosität und soziale Machtverhältnisse. Tagung der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 11/2013 Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
Migration und Zivilgesellschaft – eine wechselseitige Herausforderung. Workshop CIERA: Faire société – Ligaturen des Sozialen, 09/2013, Moulin d‘Andé.
Identitätsstrategien von muslimischen Migranten, Kolloquium CIERA: Das Selbe und das Andere. Identitätenbildung am Rande der Gesellschaft in Frankreich und in Deutschland, 06/2013, Paris.
Le malentendu culturel vis-à-vis du terrain de recherche, Journée doctorale ED 519 : „Les malentendus culturels“, 04/2013, Straßburg.
Arranging Muslim Religiosity and Occupational Activity in Daily Life. Professional Biographies of Women in France and Germany.
Supervisors:
apl. Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner
Prof. Dr. Dr. Anne Sophie Lamine
The study focuses on the subject of conduct of life among Muslim women, from the second generation of migrants, and health and social professionals in France and Germany. My starting point was the observation of a tension between women's professional activity and Muslim religiosity. The study analyses how this relationship of tension occurs in biographies and how the conduct of life establishes a compatibility between religion and work. By comparing six contrasting cases drawing on a reconstructive methodology (objective hermeneutics) I identified three types: "life conduct with a fusion of spheres", "life conduct with a separation of spheres" and "life conduct with flexible boundaries between spheres". This thesis shows different forms of reconciliation between religion and work and is therefore a contribution to the scientific discourse on the integration of women of Muslim origin into the labour market