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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

Dr. Magnus Echtler
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