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In the last year, four professors joined the URPP Asia and Europe as participating scholars:
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research interests
Migration, labour, and dependency; social change and development; urban life; material culture and commodity chains; gender, sexuality and kinship
Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam and Cambodia
Institute of Art History
Research interests
Islamic art and architecture, artistic and cultural heritage of al-Andalus, cross-cultural exchanges (Iberian peninsula/ Istanbul/Central Asia), Mudéjar architecture, neo-Islamic architecture in the Islamic world and the West, Orientalism, Spanish national identity debate (20th–21st century), cultural heritage preservation in Spain and the Islamic world
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research interests
Hindu traditions; criticism of religion, (post) secularity and non-religion; ritual theory, action theory and practice theory; medical anthropology, religion and (mental) health / illness; qualitative social research, biographical research; history of the discipline of anthropology and religious studies
South Asia, particularly North India; Europe
Institute of Religious Studies
Research interests
Sociology of religion, ritual theory, systems theory, practice theory
Research projects, among others, on the role of rituals in modern societies, on the Parsi Zoroastrians in Mumbai, on the conversion of church buildings in urban contexts and on alternative religiosity
(Asia & Europe Bulletin, 4/2015, p. 26)
