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team_Magnus_Echtler_2024 Dr. Magnus Echtler
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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


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  • Since 2023, Privatdozent in the Study of Religion, University of Bayreuth
  • 2023 Habilitation in the Study of Religion, University of Bayreuth; thesis: Routinizing the Black Messiah
  • 2020-2024, senior researcher, KFG “Multiple secularities, beyond the west – beyond modernities”, University of Leipzig
  • 2019-2020, visiting fellow at the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies”, Bayreuth
  • 2014-2018, research fellow at the DFG research project “Tradition and innovation. Sacred space in/off Durban”
  • 2012-2017, associated senior fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies
  • 2008 PhD in Social/Cultural Anthropology (Ethnologie); summa cum laude; University of Bayreuth; thesis: Changing rituals - The New Year’s festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar, since colonial times
  • 2007-2014, co-editor of the Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth University (NAB)
  • 2005-2014, lecturer in the Study of Religion (Prof. Ulrich Berner), University of Bayreuth
  • 2000 MA in Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, thesis: Die Wittfogel-Hypothese und das Problem der politischen Organisation im alten Hawaii
  • 1992-2000 MA studies in social anthropology, philosophy and study of religion, University of Bayreuth and Free University Berlin

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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


  • Religions in Africa
  • Ethnicity
  • Secularity
  • Charisma
  • Rituals
  • Space and media
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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


Dr. Magnus Echtler
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