About
Dr. Anne Beutter is a Post Doc Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Lucerne's Department for the Study of Religions (since 2021) and currently a Guest Researcher at Aarhus University's Centre for Contemporary Religion. She holds a PhD from the University of Lucerne, defended in 2020, focusing on the interplay between religion and legal frameworks in West African contexts. Her research explores religious diversity mappings, the history of Religionswissenschaft, and legal pluralism. She is a speaker of the Working Group Africa (DVRW) and part of the Research Network on Law and Religion (University of Basel). She previously served as General Secretary of the Swiss Association for the Study of Religions and co-founded the Netzwerk un-sichtbar, an urban religious audio guide network.
Education: BA in Study of Religions and Sociology (University of Basel), MA in Study of Religion (University of Leipzig). Research interests include normative orders, legal practices of religious organizations, and trajectories of religious diversity representations. Her 2022 monograph examines legal structures of Ghana's Presbyterian Church within colonial and African legal contexts.
