Stewart Hoover Mentorship Award, International Society for Media, Religion and Culture, awarded on 4 August 2023

Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Theology, Universität Zürich, awarded 29 April 2023

Spinoza award, Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research/Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), 2015

Academy professor prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW), 2015?

Anneliese-Maier-Forschungspreis, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, 2011.

- Fellow Kollegforschergruppe Multiple Secularities, Leipzig University (April-June 2023)
- Member Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (since 2022).

- Fellow KNIR (Royal Netherlands Institute, Rome), May 2019
- William James Guest-professorship, Department of Religious Studies, Bayreuth University, 6-10 November 2017

- Fellow Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), Oslo; Project Local Dynamics of Globalization-research project (April-June 2015). Invited.
- Member Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, since 2012.
- Fellow Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2010-11)

- Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) (since 2007)
- Vice-Chairperson of the International African Institute, London (2005-2017)
- Member of the International African Institute, London (since 2004)