Marie Jäckel is a doctoral researcher at the RWS and the UFSP Digital Religions, where she conducts her own research project on the New Right, discourses on migration policy, and the role religion plays within these debates. Her work combines online ethnography with analogue, interview‑based field research.

She studied Social Sciences in Berlin (DE) and Bergen (NO) and completed her Master’s degree in the Study of Religion and Sociology at the University of Zurich in January 2024. Throughout her studies she has worked at the URPP Digital Religions, at the Chair for the Study of Religion with a focus on Social Sciences, and at the Chair for the Study of Religion with a Systematic‑Theoretical Approach at the University of Zurich. In 2024, she was a researcher at the University of Basel in the SNF‑funded project “Are Religions Becoming Green? II”, where she gained additional experience in both quantitative and qualitative research, additionally to her early publication activities.

Marie Jäckel represents the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies on the GRC Career Grants Committee, the funding commission for early‑career researchers at the University of Zurich.

• quantitative and qualitative methods in social sciences
• experiences of exclusion and discrimination
• processes of leaving a religious community
• Muslim experiences in European contexts
• Religion and the New Right in Europe

Since January 2025, Marie Jäckel is part of the research project of the URPP Digital Religions in Cluster D. Her current fieldwork focuses on forms of agency in the context of narratives about migration and Islam in Germany and Switzerland, particularly surrounding the idea of a “population replacement".

ORCiD Profil:https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7876-5239

(For publications on the ongoing research project please contact Marie Jäckel directly)

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• Jensen, Maja K., Sana Iqbal, Marie Jäckel, Jens Koehrsen. (in press). "Conflict Dynamics in Greening Processes: The Case of Swiss Churches." Journal of Contemporary Religion.

• Jäckel, Marie (2025). Values as Empty Signifiers?: Three Case Studies of Discourses on (Christian) Values in the Documents of EU Christian Organizations. Journal of Religion in Europe (published online ahead of print 2025).  https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-bja10142
• Riegel, Ulrich, Jäckel, Marie, & Faix, Tobias (2022). Internal Conflict Associated with Disaffiliation from the Roman Catholic Church. Journal of Empirical Theology, 35(1), 76-94.  https://doi.org/10.1163/15709256-20221428
• Faix, Tobias, Riegel, Ulrich and Jäckel, Marie (2022) "The Process of Leaving the Church Revisited. A Replication of Ebertz’ Study on Types of Church Leavers" International Journal of Practical Theology, vol. 26, no. 1, 2022, pp. 75-92.  https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0041
• Künkler, Tobias, Tobias Faix, and Marie Jäckel (2020). "The Guilt Phenomenon. An Analysis of Emotions Towards God in Highly Religious Adolescents and Young Adults" Religions 11, no. 8: 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11080420

Contribution to an edited volume:

• Faix, Tobias, Tobias Künkler and Marie Jäckel. 2020. Die empirica Jugendstudie 2018. Ein Überblick. In: Faix, T., S. Jung and T. Künkler (Edts.) Evangelische Hochreligiöse im Diskurs. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. 11-52.

• FS22: Tutor: Proseminar Sozialwissenschaftliche Religionswissenschaft (with Linda Bosshart, Dr. Jill Marxer and Prof. Dr. Dorothea Lüddeckens)
• FS23: Tutor: Proseminar Sozialwissenschaftliche Religionswissenschaft (with Linda Bosshart, Dr. Jill Marxer and Prof. Dr. Dorothea Lüddeckens)