Dissertations

Ongoing doctoral projects:

Sissi Mettier-Mangholz: "Representations of the cosmos in C.G. Jung and Emma Kunz"

Vanessa Kopplin: "Understanding and influence of religion and religiosity in the everyday political life of members of parliament in Germany, Austria and Switzerland"

Dora Borer: "Muslim images of women in the field of tension between religion and politics. An investigation of Muslim women's images of themselves and others"

Maria Wedekind:"A aesthetics of religion-study of the Alevi semah dance in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany"

Lavinia Pflugfelder:"Religion-productive image discourses: continuity and innovation of the thought-figure of the male God in neopagan witchcraft"

Janina Koelbing: "The sublime body of the people. Race and the religion of the flesh"

Jiachen Zheng: "Eric Voegelin and the religious history of modern intellectuals"

Completed doctoral projects:

Balz Andrea Alter:"Cinematography as a medium of religion and religious studies. Using the example of the cinematic case study Moi, un Afropéen"

Stefan Ragaz: "Concepts of religion in Russian discourses on the Orient. An investigation into academia, literature and travelogues from 1804 to 1855"

David Atwood: "Threshold-times. Mythopoetic origins of religion in contemporary history"

Chr. Lucas Zapf:"The religious work of the market economy. A comparison of the economics of religion"

Anja Kirsch:"Weltanschauung als Erzählkultur. On the construction of religion and socialism in civics textbooks of the GDR"

Lorenz Trein: "Conceptual Islam: On the discursive formation of a collective singular and the discourse on Islam in a European academic and religious history"

Stephanie Gripentrog-Schedel: "Abnormality and religion. On the emergence of psychology in the context of European religious history in the 19th and early 20th centuries"

Adrian Hermann:"Distinctions of religion. Analyses of the global discourse on religion and the problem of differentiating 'religion' in Buddhist contexts of the 19th and early 20th centuries"