office hours Monday 14-16

Office: Heuberg 12

Out of office:
23.9.-18.10.24
02.-20.12.24

Lavinia Pflugfelder works as an academic assistant at the University of Basel where she researches her PhD-project on religion-productive image discourses. She completed her master's degree in the Study of Religion at University of Basel. Her Master's Thesis concerns the reception and production of Satanic imagery in heavy metal.

"Ambivalenz der Teufelsfigur: Horror und Faszination", contribution and panel discussion, Faculty Conference Theological Faculty Basel 2023 "Theology & Horror", May 15-17, 2023

"Wissen, Gender, Magie und die Denkfigur der Hexe", doctoral and postdoc workshop "Hexen! Religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Wissen, Gender und Magie", University of Basel June 1-3, 2024

European history of religion of the 19th century

• Esotericism and occultism
• Secret societies
• Magic

Religion and popular culture

• Heavy metal, black metal, occult rock
• Music video and bricolage
• Image exchange between pop culture and religion(s)
• Religion and horror (film)

Religion, image and identity

• Gender and concepts of deities in contemporary paganism
• Wicca and narratives of origin

Religion and nature

• Nature and gender in neopagan discourses
• Concepts of nature in Romanticism and the sacralization of nature