Team > Benedikt Erb, M.A.

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Vita

• 2016 – 2022 research associate at the department for the study of religion in Bayreuth
  
• 2015 – 2016 SNF Scholarship at the department of the study of religion in Basel
• 2010 – 2014 MA student of the study of religion at the University of Leipzig
• 2007 – 2010 BA student of cultural history and the study of religion at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  

Functions

• 2017 – 2019: editor of the journal “Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft” (ZjR)
• 2015-2019: chair of the working group “Mittelbau und Nachwuchs” (AKMN) of the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW)

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Fields of Research

• Critical applied study of religion
  
• Meditation and meditation research as objects of the study of religion
  
• Theories of religion and science
  
• Academic engagement with (German) criticism of Islam and research on Islamophobia
  

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Publications

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Benedikt Erb, M.A.

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