Carmen Becker

Carmen Becker is a Professor at the Institute for Religious Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy at Leibniz University Hannover. Her interdisciplinary work bridges Islamic studies, religious studies, and cultural sociology.

Research Focus: Discourse analysis of Islam/Muslims in European and Middle Eastern contexts, discursive ethnography, poststructuralist theories (Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler), and religion as a classification scheme. She has led projects on Salafism and media, Islamic Militant Activism in Europe, and 'Muslim Question' dynamics.

Teaching: Courses on digital religion, Islamic politics, qualitative methods, and critical religious studies since 2016.

Professional Engagements:

• Co-editor of Implicit Religion (since 2019)
• Internet Officer at European Association for the Study of Religions (since 2020)