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Lavinia Pflugfelder MA

Assistant / PhD candidate (Fachbereich Religionswissenschaft)

Office

Heuberg 12
4051 Basel
Schweiz

Contact

l.pflugfelder@unibas.ch
+41 61 207 29 26

office hours Monday 14-16

Office: Heuberg 12

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

 

Teaching

ENTRY IN THE COURSE DIRECTORY

regularly:

Fall semester: Introduction to Religious Studies (not in HS24, course taught by Elena Schaa)

Spring semester: Introduction to the European History of Religions

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.

Projects

Lectures

"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

Research interests

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

 

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Portrait Lavinia Pflugfelder: junge weisse Frau mit schulterlangen braunen Haaren und undercut, trägt eine Brille und lächelt, Bücherregal im Hintergrund.
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Basler Masterarbeit mit Fritz Stolz-Preis ausgezeichnet

Die Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft (SGR) hat 2021 den Förderpreis an zwei Masterarbeiten vergeben, darunter die Masterarbeit von Lavinia Pflugfelder zu Satanismus und Black Metal.

CV

  • 2020-current, research associate with teaching assignment, Study of Religion Department, University of Basel
  • 2018-2020, Employment as student assistant in Greek Philology, University of Basel
  • 2017-2020, Employment as student assistant, Study of Religion Department, University of Basel
  • 2018-2020 Master in Study of Religion, German Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Basel.
  • 2010-2017 Bachelor in Study of Religion, German Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Basel

Memberships

2022-current, Member of the Research Collective Enchanted Epistemes

2020-current, Member of the Board of the Swiss Society for the Study of Religions (SGR)

2019-current, Member of the Editorial Board Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft (ZjR)

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