Institut für Religionswissenschaft Christian Koch, M.A.

• 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".
• 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".
• 2013 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) Religious Studies (Major), Middle Eastern Archaeology (Minor), Heidelberg University.
  • Title: "Dealing with Bamiyan. Religious Studies and the 'Other'".

• The relationship between religion and secularity
• Transdisciplinary Methods
• Media and mediations
• Brands
• Buddhism in Europe
• Translocality and Transtemporality
• Material Religion and Sensual Religion

• April - May 2018 German Historical Institute London

• 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).

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.

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.