Istvan Keul

  Primary areas of research and teaching                         

Religions of South Asia, with a focus on Hinduism 
New religions in Asia
Ritual studies
Theory and method in the study of religions
Ethnicity and religion in East-Central Europe

Selected publications                                                       

• "Blending into the Religious Landscape: The Yoginīs in Banāras", in Numen 59/4 (2012) (forthc.).
• (ed.) Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond (Religion and Society; 52), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2012.
• (with Michael Stausberg) "Filmreife Epiphanien im dritten Raum: Ein transreligiöser Kult in Mumbai", in Numen 57/1 (2010), 30-77.
• Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; 143), Leiden: Brill, 2009.
• "Politische Myopie, mystische Revolution, glückliche (Un)Schuld? Mircea Eliade und die legionäre Bewegung", in Horst Junginger (ed.), The Study of Religion under the Impact of National Socialist and Fascist Ideologies in Europe, Leiden: Brill, 2008, 398-418.
• "Kirchen im Streit und der Staat. Orthodoxe und Unierte in Rumänien", in: Vasilios N. Makrides (ed.), Religion, Staat und Konfliktkonstellationen im orthodoxen Ost- und Südosteuropa: Vergleichende Perspektiven, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2005, 53-83.
• Hanumān, der Gott in Affengestalt. Entwicklung und Erscheinungsformen seiner Verehrung (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten; 47), Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2002.

Short biography                                                       

Date and place of birth: 28.04.1970, Schäßburg. Studied Religionswissenschaft (Study of religions), Indology, and German literature at the University of Tübingen; Magister Artium, 1997; Dr. phil., 2000, University of Tübingen; from 2001 assistant professor at the Department for the Study of Religions, Freie Universität Berlin; Habilitation (professorial dissertation) and conferral of the venia legendi in the Study or religions (Religionswissenschaft), FU Berlin, 2007; Humboldt research fellowship in 2008 and 2009; from September 2009 professor in the Study of religions at the Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies, NTNU, Trondheim.

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