Mathias Kissel

Mathias Kissel is an acting professor of religious education at Bielefeld University since 2024. He also holds a Private Lecturer (PD Dr. habil.) position in Practical Theology / Religious Education at the University of Paderborn, where he completed his habilitation in 2024. From 2023–2024, he served as a Lecturer in Liturgics / Homiletics at the University of Marburg.

• Education
  • Habilitation (2024, University of Paderborn): Completion and Fragment – Theological Implications of the Intertextuality of Sacred Concert Dramaturgy
  • PhD (2021, University of Paderborn): I wish I were at home. The Dance of Death, Op. 12, 2 as liturgical music and testimony to Hugo Distler's psyche
  • Master’s in Church History (University of Basel/Luzern, 2010)

Research Interests:

• Spirituality & Intellectualism in Church and Theology
• Anglicanism
• Vulnerability as a Theological Concept
• Kids’ Theology as Inclusive Hermeneutics
• Theological Hermeneutics of Traditional/Modern Music
• Paradox and Intertextuality in Theological Interpretation
• Liturgical Science, Hymnology, and Sacrament Theology

Professional Roles:

• Faculty member at Bielefeld University’s Department of Theology and Diaconal Studies
• Private Lecturer at University of Paderborn
• Membership in the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie (WGTh) and Zentrum für komparative Theologie & Kulturwissenschaft (Paderborn)