Maria Elisabeth Höwer

Biography

Maria Elisabeth Höwer is a doctoral student. She is working on the phenomenon of the “city” in connection with Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Her main subject is anthropogeography, with an intensive reference to (religious) philosophy. As part of her Master’s thesis, she researched the topic of “Postmodern urban development as a perspective on social change”. She studied at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) and the Technische Universität Dresden. In addition to geography, she studied philosophy, political science, water management and Arabic. The question of the city under the auspices of divine revelation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam addressed a twofold issue: the culture surrounding revelation in the earthly city, as well as the completion of the earthly in the city of God. In the words of the Psalm: “How I rejoiced when I was told: ‘We are going on pilgrimage to the house of the Eternal’!” (Ps 122)