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Research Supervision in Religious Studies

Religious Studies offers supervision on the following areas of research interest at postgraduate level, amongst others:

East Asian Religions: History, Culture, Doctrine

(Lukas Pokorny)

Supervision can be offered in all areas linked to East Asian religious traditions. These include Buddhism, Daoism, Shamanism, Shinto and Confucianism in East Asia (China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Vietnam) and beyond. Current staff research interests focus on Neo-Confucianism and Comparative Studies.

Gnosticism: Ancient and Modern

(Robert Segal)

Supervision is offered in Gnosticism taken as an ancient, long dead religion and in Gnosticism as also a modern, even perennial world view.

Islamic Sources

(Zohar Hadromi-Allouche)

Supervision is offered in the study of primary Islamic sources: Qur'an and Tafsir (commentary), Hadith (Prophetic tradition), Sira (Prophetic biography), and related genres.

New Religious Movements: History, Culture, Doctrine

(Lukas Pokorny)

Supervision is offered for those who desire to investigate the doctrinal, historical but also social setting of new religious movements (NRM) employing both philological and anthropological/sociological methods. Present staff research interests comprise soteriological and axiological discourses in East Asian NRM, the millenarian dimension of NRM (East and West) and the impact of fantasy and science fiction literature on NRM.

Non-Religion: Histories/Herstories, Cultures, Identifications

(Anja Finger)

Supervision is offered on all forms of non-religion, such as atheism, agnosticism, secularism, and specific humanisms and Marxisms. Current staff research interests include how sex/gender plays out in their historical as well as contemporary manifestations, how non-religion is not only a cognitive stance but shaping whole ways of life, and how social contexts delimit the range of non-religious identifications of both others and selves.

Queering Religion/s: Trans Stories, Cultures, Theories

(Anja Finger)

Supervision is offered to those who want to explore the critical function of Religious Studies through a critique of heteronormativity. Both theoretical and empirical projects are welcome. Currently, I am particularly interested in extending this perspective to phenomena of non-religion (s. above).

Theories of Religion, Theories of Myth, and Theories of Ritual

(Robert Segal)

Supervision is offered in the areas of theories of religion, theories of myth, and theories of ritual from the humanities and the social sciences.

Universal Themes in Islam

(Zohar Hadromi-Allouche)

Supervision is offered in the study of such themes as Islam and ambivalence, Islamic demonology, literary paradigms in Islamic sources and interfaith/ intercultural parallels, e.g., stories of the prophets genre, transcultural literature.

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