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Our research mainly focuses on the following, overlapping thematic fields Religion (and its others), Ethics, Body and Gender as well as Queer Anthropology. In addition, chair members conduct research in the areas of Knowledge (trans)formation and Medicine (and therapeutic pluralism). Regionally we are interested in South Asia, in particular India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Himalayas (see the South Asia Forum), and Switzerland and Europe. Europe and South Asia are investigated against the background of their colonial and post-colonial interdependences. We are also concerned with asymmetrical research structures, anthropological team research and with the combination of biographic and ethnographic approaches.
Religion and its Others in South Asia and the World: Communities, Debates, Freedoms (European Research Council (ERC))
The Diversity of Nonreligion (Emmy Noether Project, German Research Foundation)
Dynamics of Well-Being (Swiss Joint Research Program in the Social Sciences)
Narratives and Ontologies of Faith-Based Aid Workers (Swiss National Science Foundation)
Researching Secular and Religious Identities in Tandem (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation)
Stefan Binder (aesthetics of religion, secularism, queer anthropology)
Anaël Jambers (Switzerland, conflicts, politics, free churches)
Alexandra Jugelt (biography, ethics, prevention, religious othering)
Anne Kukuczka (gender, body, beauty, labour, im/mobility)
Tanja Luchsinger (belonging, biography, identity)
Minee Pratiksha (Caste, Dalit identity, Partition refugees, Urban Spaces, Subaltern History)
Johannes Quack (religion, ethics, medicine, knowledge)
Lindsay Vogt (politics of high technology, water, development)
Sandra Bärnreuther
Alexander Blechschmidt
Anne Breubeck
Katyayani Dalmia
Banhishikha Ghosh
Marina Gold
Paridhi Gupta
Maria Hughes
Clémence Jullien
Purbasha Mazumdar
Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova
Kumud Rana
Rajat Roy
Emanuel Schaeublin
Mareike Scherer
Mascha Schulz
Smriti Sharma
Alexios Tsigkas
We maintain extensive contacts and different forms of cooperation with the following institutions:
The following collaborations exist through projects or memorandi of understanding:
Main Supervisor (Erstbetreuer):
Co-Supervisor (Zweitbetreuer) / Comittee: