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of the Center for Religion and Modernity

Dr. Sarah Thieme

Dr. Sarah Thieme was a Research Associate in the office of the Centre for Religion and Modernity at the University of Münster from January 2021 to May 2023. Since June 2023, Dr. Sarah Thieme has been Managing Director of the Rectorate Research Council at Münster University.

Daniel Freitag

Daniel Freitag was Research Associate at the Administrative Office of the Center of Religion and Modernity of the University of Münster from April to December 2022 and February to May 2023. Since June 2023, Daniel Freitag has been a doctoral fellow at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Sigrun Fels

Sigrun Fels worked in the secretariat at the Center for Religion and Modernity at the University of Münster from April 2022 to September 2023.

>> Graduate School RePliV

Regional Regulation of Religious Plurality in Comparison

Sahide Cingöz

Sahide Cingöz was a member of the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliV from 2021 to 2022 with a project on educational concepts in mosques.

Johannes Eberl

Johannes Eberl was a member of the RePliV graduate school from 2021 to 2025 with a project on Islamic religious education as a local interface of multiple differentiation.

Nelli Felker

Nelli Felker was a member of the RePliV research programme from 2021 to 2025 with a project on queer religiosity.

Martin Herholz

Martin Herholz was a member of the RePliV research college from 2021 to 2025 with a project comparing the regulatory strategies of religious plurality in Reform and Conservative Judaism in the USA and their influence on interreligious dialogue initiatives in the USA and Europe.

Puyan Mahmudian

Puyan Mahmudian was a member of the RePliV research college from 2021 to 2025 with a project on modelling the structures and dynamics of the German Islamic field, including late modern transformations, external influences and possibilities of state control.

Mareike Ritter

Mareike Ritter was a member of the RePliV graduate school from 2021 to 2025 with a project on Jewish-Muslim alliances.

>> Explaining Religious Change Across Generations

An International Study of Religious Transmission in Families

Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner

Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner was leader of the John Templeton Foundation project Explaining religious change across generations.

Dr. Olaf Müller

Dr. Olaf Müller was leader of the John Templeton Foundation project Explaining religious change across generations.

Dr. Linda Hennig

Dr. Linda Hennig was postdoctoral research fellow at the project ot John Templeton Foundation Explaining religious change across generations frpm 2019 to 2024.

Chiara Porada

Chiara Porada was a research associate in the project Explaining religious change across generations until 2022.

Johannes Eberl

Johannes Eberl was a member of the project "The Transmission of Religion Across Generations: A Comparative International Study of Continuities and Discontinuities in Family Socialization" from 2021 to 2022.

Dr. Lilo Ruther

Lilo Ruther was a research assistant (parental leave replacement) in the project Explaining religious change across generations from 2020 to 2021.

>> RaMi - From the Margins to the Centre

right-wing populist interpretations of (radical) Islam as a societal challenge in Europe and beyond

Anna-Maria Meuth

Anna-Maria Meuth was a research assistent in the project RaMi - From the margins to the centre from 2021 to 2024 with a project on Christian Positions in Pre-Parliamentary Public Negotiation Processes in the Media. From 2017 to 2021 she was a research associate in the office of the Centre for Religion and Modernity.

 

>> The Pope's Legions

A Case Study of Social and Political Transformation

Prof. Dr Mariano Barbato

Mariano Barbaot was DFG Heisenberg Fellow and Principal Investigator of the project "The legions of the pope: A case study of social and political transformation”.

Dr. Johannes Löffler

Johannes Ludwig Löffler was a doctoral student in the The Pope's Legions from 2016 to 2022 with a dissertation project on the Communication Strategies of Pope Francis in the Political Public Sphere.

>> Statistical Timeseries on Church Life from 1949 to 2010

Dr. Michael Krüggeler

Dr. Michael Krüggeler was a former research assistant in the 2015 completed project 'Statistical timeseries on church life from 1949 to 2010'.

>> Graduate School RePliR

Religious Plurality and its Regulation in the Region

Dr. Anna Klie

From January 2017 to May 2020, Anna Wiebke Klie was a doctoral student in the Graduate School RePliR.

Dr. Martina Loth

Martina Loth was a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliR from 2016 to 2020 with a dissertation project on the religious identity of young Alevis and Sunnis.

Dr. Natalie Powroznik

Natalie Powroznik was a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliR with a thesis von religion in refugee shelters.

Dr. David Rüschenschmidt

David Rüschenschmidt was a doctoral student in the interdisziplinary Graduate School RePliR from 2016 to 2020 with a dissertation projekt on the history of Christian-Islamic dialog in North Rhine-Westphalia as part of his doctoral project.

Dr. Mathias Schneider

Mathias Schneider was a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliR from 2016 to 2020 with a dissertation project on the topic of "Buddhist Interpretations of Jesus".

• Brunner, Nele (Geschäftsstelle, 2023-2025)
• Busemann, Hannah (RaMi, 2022-2023)
• Elferich, Steffen (Explaining religious change across generations, 2022-2024)
• Feldmann, Arne (Geschäftsstelle, 2019-2023)
• Funke, Anja (Geschäftsstelle, 2015)
• Hessing, Teresa (RaMi, 2022-2023)
• Keute, Annika (Geschäftsstelle, 2017, 2019)
• Knölker, Louise (GloBil, 2023-2025)
• Kottmann, Olvier (Geschäftsstelle, 2019)
• Reuther, Katharina (RaMi, 2023-2024)
• Scharrenbroich, Lena (RaMi, 2021-2022)
• Windmüller, Christoph (RaMi, 2021-2022)
• Wobido, Lena (Geschäftsstelle, 2016-2017)

Dr. Giulia Marotta

Giulia Marotta was a Research Fellow (WiRe Fellowship Programs and WWU Fellowship) from 2018 to 2019. During her stay at CRM, she focused on the historiography of the modernist crisis within the Catholic Church (1893-1910).