Oliver Krüger
Prof. Dr.
Professor
Department of Social Sciences
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
Biography
From 1994 to 1999 Oliver Krüger studied Sociology, Archeology and Religious Studies at the University of Bonn (Germany). In his Ph.D. thesis on "Virtuality and Immortality" he analyzed the religious and philosophical context of posthumanism and transhumanism. 2004 the thesis was awarded by the German Association for the History of Religion. After his Ph.D. he worked on the significance of the Internet for the Wicca movement in a research project at the University of Heidelberg. From 2005-2007 Krüger served as visiting lecturer and visiting research fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University while exploring the alternative funeral culture in the United States, especially the Funeral Consumer's Alliance. In 2007 he was appointed to the chair for Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) at Fribourg University, from 2011-2014 he was president of the Swiss Association for the Study of Religion. In 2012/13 he was invited as fellow to the International Centre for Advanced Studies Morphomata at the University of Cologne (Germany).
Research and publications
- A) Curriculum vitae
- B) List of publications and talks
- C) Books
- D1) Special Issue Hardy 125 (AЯGOS 2:2 2023)
- D2) Special Issue Religion and Ecology (AЯGOS 1 2022)
- D3) Special Issue The Dynamics of Religion, Media and Community (Online 14 2022)
- D4) Special Issue on Theory and Methodology (Online 1 2005)
- E. Gaia, God, and the Internet - revisited. The History of Evolution and the Utopia of Community in Media Society. In: Online – Heidelberg Journal for Religions on the Internet 8 (2015)
- E. „Religion“ definieren. Eine wissenssoziologische Analyse religionsbezogener Enzyklopädistik. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 69/1 (2017), 1-46
- F. The Mediatization of Religion: A Critical Consideration of a New Paradigm. In: Marburg Journal of Religion 20/1 (2018)
- G. ‘It’s all about loving your parents.’ The Reflection of Tradition, Modernity and Rituals in Popular Indian Movies. In: Marburg Journal of Religion 9/1 (2004)