Sects
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict
Dr. Hartmut Zinser
Professor of the Scientific Study of Religion
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Christian fundamentalism
- Sects
- Christianity
- Ethics
- Systematic study of religions
- European religious history since the French Revolution
- Genealogical religions
- Roman religious history
- Myths and their theories
- Ancient Christianity
- Religion and war
- Religious terrorism