Kerstin Radde-Antweiler

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is a full Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bremen, where she has held a chair in Media and Religion since 2018. She serves as Deputy Spokeswoman of ZeMKI (Center for Media, Communication and Information Research) and Chairwoman of the Tenure Boards at the university. Her research focuses on deep mediatization of religious practices, digital gaming cultures, and media appropriation in religious contexts.

Radde-Antweiler leads international projects such as ReCov19 (funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform) and Video Game Development in Asia (funded by Beethoven 2). She founded the International Academy of the Study of Gaming and Religion and chairs the Network of German-speaking Researchers on Religion and Culture in Times of Deep Mediatization (GeNet-ISMRC). She also contributes to the University of Zürich's Digital Religion(s) research group.

Her recent publications analyze digital gaming as a transformative religious space, media settlers in mediatized religion, and value formations in gamevironments. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches combining religious studies, media theory, and computational analysis. Her work appears in journals like Religion, Media and Communication, and Gamevironments.