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Apl. Prof. Dr. phil. Christa Frateantonio is a Lecturer for Special Assignments at the Institute for Religious Studies (Leibniz University Hannover) since 2012. She holds a private lecturer qualification from the University of Marburg (2009) and has held various visiting professorships in Ancient History and Religious Studies at universities including Giessen, Erfurt, and Munich. Her affiliations include membership in the German Association for Religious Studies (DVRW) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal for Young Religious Studies (ZjR).
- Ph.D. in Religious Studies (University of Tübingen, 1998)
- Habilitation in Religious Studies (University of Marburg, 2010)
- Studied at universities of Bielefeld, Freiburg, and Tübingen
Her research focuses on religious transformation processes through industrialization and urbanization. Key areas include urban religious pluralism, museum contexts of religious objects, and secular burial cultures. She examines how religious spaces and practices adapt to modernity, with publications analyzing yoga studios as urban religious phenomena and church-to-funeral-hall conversions.
Teaching emphasizes Christian beliefs, ancient religious historiography, and modern religious pluralism. Her 15 most recent publications (2000-2017) span topics from Roman law-religion dynamics to digital indexing projects, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with classical archaeology, museum studies, and contemporary funeral culture.
- Co-editor of "Religion, Space, Nature: Religious Studies Explorations" (2017)
- Collaborated with Landesmuseum Hannover and Museum August Kestner on religious object provenance studies
- Developed e-campus modules for Ancient Studies at Giessen University
Active in academic service as BAföG representative and member of multiple scholarly organizations, Frateantonio connects historical analysis with modern religious practice through systematic field research and transdisciplinary collaboration.
