Miklós Tomka

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
1978:Ph.D. (sociology), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1967:MA. (sociology), University of Budapest
1965.:BA. University of Economy Budapest

Present position:
1989-1993: Scientific Director, Catholic Pastoral Institute Budapest
1990-1991: Lecturer for Sociology of Religion and Communication, University Pécs
1978-1989: Head of Department of Theory of Communication, Hungarian Public Opinion Research Center
1974-1988: Lecturer for Sociology of Religion, University of Budapest
1968-1978: Senior Researcher, Hungarian Mass Communication Research Centre
1963-1968: Researcher, Hungarian Cooperative Research Center

Previous Employments:
1989-1993: Scientific Director, Catholic Pastoral Institute Budapest
1990-1991: Lecturer for Sociology of Religion and Communication, University Pécs
1978-1989: Head of Department of Theory of Communication, Hungarian Public Opinion Research Center
1974-1988: Lecturer for Sociology of Religion, University of Budapest
1968-1978: Senior Researcher, Hungarian Mass Communication Research Centre
1963-1968: Researcher, Hungarian Cooperative Research Center

Board Memberships:
1996-1998: Member of International CONCILIUM Foundation, Nijmegen, Holland
1995- : Vice-President of Society for Religious Studies in Eastern Europe
1992- : Co-Director for Sociology of Religion of the Review CONCILIUM
1991-1993, 1995- : Board member in International Society for Sociology of Religion
1987-1997: President of the Hungarian Association for Sociology of Religion
1978-1986: Vice-President of the Section Sociology of Religion in the International Sociological Association (ISA)

Visiting professorships:
1998 spring: University of Salzburg, Austria, Department Intercultural Theology (course: "Religious Development in Eastern and Central Europe")
1988 fall: University of Bamberg, Germany, Department of Sociology (course: "Basic Problems in Sociology of Religion")
1988 spring: University of Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Theology (courses: "Classics of Sociology of Religion", and: "Specific Sociological Problems of Religion in Eastern Europe")
1978: University of Bamberg, Germany, Department of Sociology (courses: "Sociological Theory", "Sociology of Communication", "Sociology of Religion")

Fellowships:
1991: Torino, Italy, Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli Fellow
1990: Summer School, University Oxford
1989: University Cologne and University Munster, Germany, KAAD-fellow
1986: University Munster, University Bielefeld, both Germany - visiting researcher
1985: University Louvain/Leuven, Belgium, Department of Sociology and Centre de l'Europe Centrale - visiting scholar
1982-1982: University of Cologne and University of Bielefeld, Germany, DAAD-visiting scholar
1977: University Leyden, The Netherlands, Dutch-Hungarian-Exchange-fellow
1967-1968: Université Libre Brussels and Catholic University Louvain, Belgium, post-graduate scholarship for sociology

Publications:
6 books and over 400 articles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Russian, Croatian, Polish, Japanese and Hungarian.


Created: 17 September 1999 by Pluhár Emese