Team > Maria Papenfuss M.A.

Faculty of Humanities & Social Studies
Study of Religion

Academic

• since 2022 Study of Religion, University of Bayreuth (Germany):
  - Research Assistant
  - Coordinator of DVRW's XXXV. Annual Conference
• 2019-2022: Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig (Germany):
  - Graduate Assistant
  - Coordinator of DVRW's XXXIV. Annual Conference
  - PhD project: Neopaganism in Mexico (ongoing)
• 2016-2019: ICONOS Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación y Cultura (Mexico):
  - Lecturer
• 2016: ICONOS Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación y Cultura (Mexiko):
  M.A. Culture and Communication (funded by DAAD)
• 2013: University of Bayreuth (Germany):
  B.A. Cultural Studies with main focus on Religion, Intercultural German Studies
• Multilingua BfS Fredsprachenberufe (Germany):
  Certified Bilingual Administrative Assistant

Funktionen

Co-Editorship:

• ZjR - Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft
  
• Entrejidos - Revista de Transdisciplina y Cultura Digital

Academic Exchange:

• Co-Founder and leader of Grupo Transnacional de Investigación en Transdisciplinariedad Sostenible, para las Culturas, Artes y Diseños (ITSCAD, Transnational Research Group for Sustainable Transdisciplinarity, Culture, Arts and Design)
  
• DVRW membership (German Association for the Study of Religion)
• RiFReM membership (Research Network for Religious Phenomena in Mexico)

Faculty of Humanities & Social Studies
Study of Religion

Topics

• Neopaganism
  
• Afro-American religions (focus: Santería, Umbanda)
  
• Lived/everyday religion, urban religion, nature religion, cyber religion
  
• Religion in Mexico
  

Methods

• Transdisciplinarity
  
• Grounded Theory
• Empirical research using qualitative methods
  

Faculty of Humanities & Social Studies
Study of Religion

Publications

2023

Maria Papenfuss: Santería in Catemaco, Mexico : Hybrid (Re)Configurations of Religious Meaning and Practice. In: Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, 9 (2023). - S. 375-394.
doi:10.30965/23642807-bja10044

2021

Maria Papenfuss: Escalera de brujas y runa vacía : un acercamiento a procesos de autenticación de prácticas neopaganas como tradiciones inventadas. In: Entretejidos : Revista de Transdisciplina y Cultura Digital, (2021). - S. 1-22.

2019

Johannes Itten: Reporte sobre el Bauhütte de la educación artística : Tributo a Johannes Itten. - Übers.: Maria Papenfuss. - Mexico City, 2019. - 16 S.

Maria Papenfuss: Ciberreligiosidad : un concepto para el estudio de fenómenos religiosos vinculados con el Internet. In: Entretejidos : Revista de Transdisciplina y Cultura Digital, (2019). - S. 1-27.

2018

Maria Papenfuss: Lugares sagrados: un enfoque hermenéutico. In: Entretejidos : Revista de Transdisciplina y Cultura Digital, (2018). - S. 1-22.

2016

Maria Papenfuss: La Santería mexicana en la era postmoderna. In: Entretejidos : Revista de Transdisciplina y Cultura Digital, (2016). - S. 1-22.

Faculty of Humanities & Social Studies
Study of Religion

Maria Papenfuss M.A.
Research Associate Study of Religion

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4178 | Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-844156
E-Mail: Maria.Papenfuss@uni-bayreuth.de

Office hours: by arrangement

Room: 1.15 (GW II)

Study of Religion with Focus on Contemporary Religious Culture
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Germany