Team > Dr. Magnus Echtler
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion
Vita
- 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
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion
- Religions in Africa
- Ethnicity
- Secularity
- Charisma
- Rituals
- Space and media
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion
Dr. Magnus Echtler
Private lecturer
E-Mail: magnus.echtler@uni-bayreuth.de