Religious Conversions between Asia and Europe

A Semiotic, Historical,and Digital Approach to Religious Contacts

This proposed research project is part of a larger ethnographic project on recent so-called mass conversions of Iranian refugees to Christianity in Germany. This research started with a preliminary ethnography during Stadlbauer’s tenure as a KHK fellow at CERES from October 2017 through January 2018. It will continue with a (planned) three-year DFG project, which will be submitted in February 2019 and has the goal of establishing a typology of these conversions. For the six-month period as a KHK fellow, Stadlbauer proposes to conduct a methodological, theoretical, and historical investigation of religious conversions during migration between Asia and Europe, which will give her future research substantial theoretical and methodological grounding.

Affiliated Persons

Photograph of Dr. Susanne Stadlbauer

Dr. Susanne Stadlbauer

Individual Researcher

susanne.stadlbauer@rub.de