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Holger Arning is a part-time Researcher in the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History at the University of Münster. Since July 2025, he works part-time while coordinating the NRW Research College RePliV on religious pluralism from 2021–2025. His career includes science communication roles since 2011 and prior full-time research from 2005–2020. Arning earned his PhD at Münster (2002–2006) with a Cusanuswerk scholarship, holds a Magister from Münster (2000) in Communication, History, and Biology, and previously worked at the Catholic weekly Kirche und Leben (2000–2002).
His research spans:
- National Socialism's ideological discourse
- Catholic Church under Nazism
- Religious pluralism
- Gender roles in Catholicism
- Censorship mechanisms
- Katholikentag conferences
His publications focus on book censorship, religious identity formation, and political theology, with recent articles analyzing 20th-century Catholic laity dynamics. He contributes to both academic journals and public theological commentary. A key thread in his work examines how religious institutions navigate authoritarian regimes and modernization pressures.
