Anna Kira Hippert M.A.
Research Associate
Center for Religious Studies (CERES)
44789
Bochum
Office 3.09
Fon+49 234 32-21966
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.
Office Hours
By appointment
Areas of Research
- Material Religion
- Religion and Popular Culture
- Religion and Media
- New Religous Movements and Social Change
- American Religion (Evangelicalism; especially Cowboy Christianity)
- Religion and Modernity
- Summer Term 2022
A generation under a spell – witchcraft in modern society
- 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"
May 2022: God Mode: Religious Symbols and Narratives in Video Games, lecture at the Kath. Hochschulgemeinde Paderborn
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
Associate Lecturer of CERES Teaching
PhD Student of CERES Early Career Researchers' Program and Graduate School RePliV