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Alexander Schröder

Associated Researcher & PhD Student

PhD Student

Areas of Research

- Religions of the Ancient Near East and Antiquity
- Sociology of Religion
- Anthropology of Religion
- Religion in Film and Literature

since 08/2023 Associated Researcher & PhD Student, Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion (GSMR), Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum

since 05/2023 Research Online Tutor, Department of Sociology, University of Hagen

10/2022 – 03/2023 Associate Lecturer, Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum

05/2019 – 02/2022 Research Assistant & Tutor, Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum

04/2017 – 07/2017 Student Assistant, DFG-Research Project Die Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den 70er und 80er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ruhr University Bochum

09/2016 – 05/2019 Student Assistant & Tutor, Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum

since SS 2023 (ongoing): (with Patrick Heiser) Fundamentals of Sociology, University of Hagen

WS 2022/23: Nature +><= Culture? Religion, Philosophy and Science caught in complicated affairs, Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum

Research Associate of CRC 1475 „Metaphors of Religion“

Associated Researcher of Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion

PhD Student of Center for Religious Studies and CERES Early Career Researchers' Program

Former Projects and Responsibilities

Research Assistant of Center for Religious Studies and The Neo-Sannya Movement in Western Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

Teaching Assistant of CERES Teaching