
Alexander Schröder
Associated Researcher & PhD StudentPhD Student
Dissertation project The Gates of Kurnugia. Boundaries and Transgressions in Mesopotamian Epic Literature (working title)
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
Associated Researcher of Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion
Associated of CRC 1475 „Metaphors of Religion“
PhD Student of Center for Religious Studies and CERES Early Career Researchers' Program
Former Research Assistant of Center for Religious Studies and The Neo-Sannya Movement in Western Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
Former Teaching Assistant of CERES Teaching