Marie Jäckel 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. She was employed at the URPP Digital Religions, at the Chair of the Study of Religion with a focus on Social Sciences and the Chair for the Study of Religion with a Focus on 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” and gathered additional experience in quantitative and qualitative research.

• 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".

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• Riegel, Ulrich, Marie Jäckel and Tobias Faix. 2022. Internal Conflicts Associated with Disaffiliation from the Roman Catholic Church, Journal of Empirical Theology, 35(1), 76-94.
• Faix, Tobias, Ulrich Riegel and Marie Jäckel. 2022. The Process of Leaving the Church Revisited. A Replication of Ebertz’ Study on Types of Church Leavers. International Journal of Practical Theology, 26(1), 75-92.
• 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, 420.

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)