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Dissertation Projects
(Incomplete) list of subjects of current Ph.D. and postdoc dissertation projects at the Department of Religious and Mission Studies (Note: multiple mentions possible).
Content
Modern South Indian history of religions
Esotericism and New Religious Movements
Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity, with a special focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America
Theology and History of South Asian Christianity
For further information contact: Michael.Bergunder@wts.uni-heidelberg.de
Modern South Indian history of religions
- Ritual discourse in South India of the 19th century
- Telugu identity during the 19th and 20th century
Esotericism and New Religious Movements
- The idea of evolution within the Secret Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky
- A. P. Sinnett and the Secret
Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky - Mythology as a natural religion within Schelling's late philosophy
- The position of Emanuel Swedenborg within the enlightenment and esoteric discourses of the 18th century
Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity, with a special focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America
- Pentecostal/Charismatic movements in Tanzania
- German Pentecostal churches during the Nazi area
- Pentecostalism in Ethiopia
- Pentecostal youth in South Germany
- Pentecostalism within Nigerian migration churches in Germany
- African and Asian Pentecostal/Charismatic migration churches in Germany
- Charismatic spirituality within Orthodox churches in Kerala
- Charismatic movements in Nagaland
Finished
:
- Claudia Währisch-Oblau. Migrants with a Mission. Pastoral self-understanding, biographical narratives, and the conceptualization and practice among Pentecostal/charismatic pastors in Western Germany. 2008
Theology and History of South Asian Christianity
- Charismatic movements in Nagaland
- Charismatic spirituality within Orthodox churches in Kerala
- Interpretation of the Bible in the Tamil context
Additional subjects
Islam and Protestantism