This paper analyzes how religious authority and power are experienced, attributed, and contested "from below" in the contested institutionalization of Jewish theology at the University of Potsdam's School of Jewish Theology (SJT, founded 2013). Reading the "Homolka Affair" as a cultural formation rather than a biographical drama, I offer an analysis of it that focuses on the dynamics of regulative power. Empirically, the paper reconstructs the shifting triangle among (1) the SJT and its affiliated seminaries (AGK; later also ZFK), (2) the Central Council of Jews in Germany (a political umbrella organization), and (3) state ministries and university governance. It traces how funding channels, recognition practices, and opaque mixed bodies (e.g., the SJT's Ständige Studienkommission for rabbinic/cantorial training) stabilize inequalities by tying curricular and appointments authority to extra‑academic actors with uneven internal representation. At the same time, grassroots liberal communities, students, and dissenting rabbis mobilize speech acts, legal complaints, and alliance‑building to contest gatekeeping and to reframe who may authorize "speaking about God" from the point of view of Jewish tradition in a secular university. Conceptually, the analysis integrates Feyerabend's pluralism (anti‑essentialist, tradition‑plural view of knowledge), Kitcher's systems of public knowledge (who may speak; how contributions are certified), and Jasanoff's political culture/coproduction (the co‑making of epistemic and social order). I argue that the present transformation—culminating in the 2022-2024 governance crisis and the creation of new Central‑Council‑aligned seminaries—reveals how state neutrality claims and intra‑Jewish representational disputes shape bottom‑up experiences of authority and inequality, while also opening pathways for critical reform (transparency, diversified governance, plural funding architectures).