Ingo Mörth

He started his scientific career in 1973 as an assistant professor at the Department of General Sociology and Social Philosophy at the JKU, and spent a term as visiting professor at the Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut in 1978.

After achieving his "Habilitation" (= venia docendi) for sociology in 1984 at the JKU he taught as associate professor (since 1997) and full professor (since 2002) at the Department of Sociology[1] at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he also was head of the Institute of Cultural Economics and Cultural Research.

[4] His theory of religion is a theory of contingency of human existence covered by transcending concepts of meaning, thus making different systems of meaning comparable as religious equivalents.

Mörth founded and developed together with Gerhard Fröhlich three multilingual online websites on famous social scientists: Pierre Bourdieu,[6] Norbert Elias[7] and Clifford Geertz.

[8][9] Recently Mörth concentrated on theory and research in the Sociology of Media and the Sociology of Arts, and he was also involved in the planning and development of several projects in the field of arts and culture.