Research
What motivates people to be affiliated with a religious tradition or to search for spirituality, while others embrace a secular worldview? How do these different religious and non-religious ways of navigating in the world relate to structures of power and legacies of domination? How do old and new media affect religious practices, their place in societies, and the manners in which religions are practiced and debated? And in what ways does the religious past manifest in multiple secular shapes, for instance in politics, popular culture, art, and cultural heritage?
Such questions are at the core of our research and teaching. Based on the idea that religion is a human and historical phenomenon, which becomes tangible in society in a material and corporeal manner, the research of Religious Studies addresses the following themes:
