Institut für ReligionswissenschaftChristian Koch, M.A.
Abgeschlossene Promotion am Institut für Religionswissenschaft
Academic Career
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Since 2016: dissertation thesis in religious studies, Heidelberg University.
- Working Title: "MEDIATING BUDDHISM
Buddha Brands in London — From Material Religion to Quantum Religion, or: Reset Realism! Why Religious Studies Scholars Should Read Bruno Latour".
- Working Title: "MEDIATING BUDDHISM
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2016 M.A. (Master of Arts) Transcultural Studies (Focus: Global Art History), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HTCS), Heidelberg University.
- Title: "From new-old Berlin City Castle to Humboldt Forum".
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2013 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) Religious Studies (Major), Middle Eastern Archaeology (Minor), Heidelberg University.
- Title: "Dealing with Bamiyan. Religious Studies and the 'Other'".
Research Focus
- The relationship between religion and secularity
- Transdisciplinary Methods
- Media and mediations
- Brands
- Buddhism in Europe
- Translocality and Transtemporality
- Material Religion and Sensual Religion
Scholarships
- April - May 2018 German Historical Institute London
Reviews
- Richard M. Jaffe. 2019. Seeking Sakyamuni. South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. In: Reading Religion(07/2020).
Teaching
Summer Term 2020
- Seminar "Die Glücksdoktrin des 21. Jahrhunderts. Neoliberalismus, Spiritualität und Branding" with Silke Hasper, Benedikt Kastner and Isis Mrugalla, Department for the Study of Religion, Heidelberg University.
Winter Term 2018/19
- Seminar "Sozialgeschichte des Buddhismus" following the lecture by Prof. Dr. Inken Prohl, Department for the Study of Religion, Heidelberg University.
Winter Term 2014/15
- Tutorial "Introduction of Transcultural Studies", Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Heidelberg University.
Other Activities
06/2020
- Logic and rhetoric workshop in preparation of the disputation, directed by Dr. Malte Engel, Institut für Argumentationskompetenz Heidelberg and Heidelberg University.
02/2015 - 12/2016
- Research Assistant, Project D18 Picturesque Modernities, directed by PD Dr. Michael Falser, Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University.