Participation in the Cluster of Excellence
- Field of research B Religious Diversity and legal-political unity
- Theory platform B Differentiation
- Coordinated project group Sociology of religion
- Coordinated project group Dealing with religious diversity
- Coordinated project group Social forms of religion in ‘second modernity’
- Coordinated project group Religious influences on economic systems and activities
- Head of the project C2-6 The Dialectic of Processes of Differentiation: Catholicism in the Differentiating Societies of the 19th Century
- Head of project A7 Religion, Values and the Welfare State: The Significance of Religious Communities to the Normative Background of European Welfare States (until 2012)
- Head of project C11 The Renunciation of Violence in Religious Traditions: Modern Catholicism in the Field of Tension between Distinction and Integration (until 2012)