Digital religion, Digital Humanities, discourse on religion

Winter Term 23/24

• Polarization in contemporary Christianity
• Working methods of religious studies

• October 2025: “We are all children of God, the Father (or Mother)?! - Polarization in the conceptualization of God-human relations”, talk at the CRC conference “Metaphors of Religion”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
• October 2025: “Religious Metaphors at Scale: Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Identification and Analysis”, talk at the CRC conference “Metaphors of Religion”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, together with Sebastian Reimann and Frederik Elwert.
• October 2025: “Open vs. True Christians. Polarisierung christlicher Reddit User:innen“, talk at the Vernetzungstreffen "Weltanschauliches Influencing", IBZ- Universität Erfurt.
• March 2025: “Computational text analysis in the study of polarized Christian subreddits”, talk at the conference “Words in Numbers” of Project RUNIP, ZukunftsZentrumZollverein Essen.
• February 2025: “’Polarisierung in Religion’ am Fall christlicher Subreddits”, talk at the workshop “Orthodox, moderat, liberal?. Perspektiven auf Polarisierung und Positionierung im religiösen Feld“, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
• May 2024: “Systematizing the intersection of polarization, religion, and social media“, talk at the workshop Digital Religion Meets Politics, Protestantisches Bildungszentrum Butenschoen-Haus, Landau.
• March 2024: “Systematizing the Intersection of Polarization, Religion, and Social Media”, talk at the Institute for Communication and Religion, Seton Hall University (USA).
• March 2024: “The Integration of Computational Methods in the Study of Religion and Metaphor”, presentation for the Computer Science Club, University of Central Arkansas (USA).
• March 2024: “Polarization of Christianity - A Case Study of Progressive and Conservative Subreddits”, presentation for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Club, University of Central Arkansas (USA).
• February 2024: “Mutter, Vater, Kind. Ressourcenarme automatische Metaphernverarbeitung für religionswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen“, talk at the Digital Humanities conference (DHd), Universität Passau.
• September 2023: “Open vs. True Christians – Austausch zu christlichen Problemstellungen auf Reddit”, talk at the conference of the DVRW, Universität Bayreuth.
• August 2023: “We Are All Children of God, the Father (or Mother?!) – Parent-Child Metaphors about God and Believers in Christian Subreddits”, talk at the conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC), Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
• September 2022: “Capturing the Thread Structure: A Modification of CMC-Core to Account for Characteristics of Online Forums”, talk at the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) conference, University Newcastle, UK. Together with Sebastian Reimann.
• May 2022: “‘Team Free Will‘: Analyseebenen möglicher Religionsbezüge in Supernatural“, talk at the international symposium of the Inklings Gesellschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.