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Prof. Dr. Katharina Wilkens is a tenured lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religions at the University of Tübingen. She holds a doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of Bayreuth and has held guest professorships at universities including Leipzig and Bayreuth. Her research focuses on African religions, decolonial approaches to religious history, and the aesthetics of religion. She co-speaks the 'Africa' and 'Aesthetics of Religion' working groups of the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW). Recent research includes studies on African secularities, possession rituals, and non-Western travelogues as historical sources.
Key academic roles include co-speaker of the DFG-network AESToR.NET (2015–2018), senior research fellow at Leipzig’s Centre for Advanced Studies (2021), and a 2023 research fellowship at LMU Munich’s Käthe-Hamburger-Kolleg. She has published extensively on topics such as Marian faith healing in East Africa, the intersection of religion and medicine, and global religious aesthetics.
Her teaching involves lectures on African religious diversity and methodologies in religious studies. She has organized major conferences including 'Multiple Secularities in Africa' (2022) and workshops on decolonizing religious studies methodologies. Recent publications include monographs on religious competence education and edited volumes on African secularities and cultural aesthetics of religion.
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