Gesine Palmer

Gesine Palmer, born in 1960 in Schleswig-Holstein, studied Protestant theology, Jewish studies and the general history of religion. In 1996, she received a doctorate in historical theology from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on John Toland’s theory of Jewish Christianity, published as “Ein Freispruch für Paulus. John Tolands Theorie des Judenchristentums.” From 1995 to 2001, she was a research associate at the university’s Institute of Protestant Theology; from 2003 to 2006, she directed the project “Religion and Normativity” at the Research Centre of the Protestant Church Studies Association in Heidelberg. In 2007, she founded the “Büro für besondere Texte” in Berlin and worked as a freelance author, publicist, speaker, philosopher of religion and funeral celebrant.