Anna Kira Hippert M.A.

Doctoral student Graduate School RePliV

Working title PhD project: Die Funktion visueller Medien in der Regulierung des Images Neuer Religiöser Bewegungen in Deutschland und den USA im Vergleich

Find more information on Anna-Kira Hippert on the website of the RePliV graduate school. 

By appointment

• Material Religion 
• Religion and Popular Culture 
• Religion and Media 
• New Religous Movements and Social Change 
• American Religion (Evangelicalism; especially Cowboy Christianity) 
• Religion and Modernity 

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• Fall Term 2021/22

Understanding New Religious Movements

• Summer Term 2021

From Jedi Knights, Monster Hunting Cowgirls and a Teenage Witch – Religion and Popular Culture 

• Fall Term 2020/21

"Yee-haw" not " Amen" – When Cowboy Culture Meets Christianity

• Fall Term 2019/20 

Teaching Assisatant "Introduction to Religious Studies"

• Spring Term 2020

Teaching Assistant "Introduction to Religious Studies"

Teaching Assistant "Between the flood of images and iconoclasm: On the role of images in religion and society"

December 2021: "Gaming und Religion", MDR radio interview on the topic of religion and computer games. 

November 2021: "Power of Images - The Function of Media for New Religious Movements", lecture at the 52nd IDZ Expert Discussion of the Working Group for the Protection of Children and Young Adults NRW.

November 2019: "Riding, Roping, Resurrected – When Christianity meets Horsemanship". Symposium at the Folkwang University of the Arts as part of the inter-university series "Ethnology in the Ruhr Area.

January 2019 – June 2019: Study and research stay at the University of Kansas, KS, US. Field research on the subject of "Cowboy Churches."

Research Associate of Center for Religious Studies

PhD Student of CERES Early Career Researchers' Program and Graduate School RePliV

Associate Lecturer of CERES Teaching