Interest in studying

Focus in Teaching and Research at the Institute of Religious Studies, University of Heidelberg

Theoretical Approaches

Religious Transformations Today

Triadic Religious Studies

Modern Buddhisms

Formations Analogous to Religion

Mindfulness

Material Religion

Religions, popular culture and marketing

Mediatization of Religion

Museums and/as religion

Transculturality

Regional Religious Traditions and their Historical Dynamics

Discourses on the future / visions of the future

Religious History of Ancient Iran

Trans- und Posthumanism

Japanese Religious History and Religions in Japan today

Religion and technologies and artificial intelligence

Religions in the U.S.

Eco-spiritualities

Religions in Europe

Religion and climate discourses

This film by the Swiss Society for the Scientific Study of Religions provides an excellent insight into the working methods of scientific studies of religions:
Religionswissenschaft studieren – Ja sicher!