Research Associate & PhD Student

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• Religion in Japan
• Coping and socio-religious transformational processes after catastrophe / disaster studies (3.11 / Fukushima in Tohoku, Japan)
• Religion and space
• Sacred architecture in the urban environment (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) in transformation
• Religious discourses on sexuality / queer studies
• Religion in popular culture 

• since 2020 – PhD project, working title:
  »Religious Space and the Invisible – understanding socio-spatial arrangements in Japanese churches«
   
• 2019 – M.A. – Study of Religion (RUB)
• 2017 – B.A. – Study of Religion & Japanese Studies (RUB & Fukushima University / 福島大学)

WS 2021/2022:

MA-Seminar: Resonating Religion: About the Intersection of Music and Religion

BA/MA-Seminar: Religion im gegenwärtigen Japan (Religion in contemporary Japan)

SoSe 2021:

BA/MA-Seminar: From Jedi Knights, Monster Hunting Cowgirls and a Teenage Witch – Religion in der Populärkultur
Team-Teaching with Anna Kira Hippert

Presentations

• 2022/07/28: Japanese language lecture 「雰囲気」の比較研究 (Comparative Research of Atmosphere) at Rikkyō University in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2021/10/14-15: "Loss, Gain, Compromise? Social Processes of Spatial Trans-formations of Synagogue and Church Communities in Germany" at the final conference of our project "Sacrality in Transition: Religious Buildings in 21st Century Urban Space in Germany" in Dortmund, Germany
• 2021/09/13-16: "Religious Atmosphere in Japan" at the online conference "Reli-gion in Relation" of the German Association for the Study of Religions (DVRW)
• 2021/07/08-10: "Power & Powerlessness. Church Uses and their Decision Processes in the Aachen Area" at the online conference "Church in Change" of the TRANSARA project
• 2021/06: Contribution to the German children's book "Wie die Sterne an den Himmel kamen" about the Japanese founding myth at Hamouda Verlag, Leipzig (CERES, RUB)
• 2020/11/21: "Religious Atmosphere in Japanese Christian Space" at the online VSJF symposium in the Sociology & Social Anthropology Division.
• 2019/11/01-02: "Recreating Communal Ties: Shinto and Christian Communities in Fukushima after 3.11" at the workshop "Current status of Japanese Studies in Europe: from the point of the young researchers of social sciences" of the European Center for Japanese Studies in Alsace (CEEJA), Kientzheim (France) - fully funded by CEEJA, Nichibun-ken & Hosei University (Japan).
• 2019/10/29: "Field Research in Japan" at the International Evening at CERES, RUB.
• 2019/06/09: "Pray for Japan - Religion in times of earthquake, tsunami and ato-marem meltdown" at the panel "Japanstudien" at Connichi in Kassel - fully funded by Animexx e.V.

Media

Podcast about our Children's book: Melting Pod (09/2021)

Forschungsaufenthalt in Fukushima, Japan

• Rheinische Post, 15.02.2020. Zeitungsartikel der RP
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum, RUB Newsportal

Austauschjahr in Fukushima, Japan (2014-2015)

• Lippische Landeszeitung, 10.11.2015. LZ Bericht.