Interdisciplinary Centre of Religious Studies

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Research directions

Methodology of comparative religion

Comparativisms
Epistemology in the study of religion
Women and religions
Theories of myth
Constuctions of religious otherness

Indic religions

East / West encounter
History of medieval and contemporary India
Islam in India
History of Yoga

History of marginalized traditions

Magical practices in extra-european cultures and popular practices.
Esoteric traditions in the West
Altered states of consciousness

Contemporary hindi authors

Ajneya
Dinkar
Yashpal

Contemporary religious movements in Switzerland

Researches by the Observatoire des religions en Suisse

Psychology of religion

God's representation by the children in Japan
The role of religion in the lives of persons turned to a monastery

Anthropology of religion

Religion: a concept to deconstruct
Figures of mankind: representations of anthropology
Figures and discourses of otherness
Cannibalism and rationality of sacrifice
Social and religious changes among Peuls of Niger

Competences

Histoire comparée des religions

Epistémologie en histoire des religions

Religiosités contemporaines en Suisse

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