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
• exclusion and discrimination
• processes of leaving a religious community
• Muslim experiences in European contexts
• religion and conspiracy theory/beliefs
• religion and politics
• religion and digitality

Since January 2025 Marie is a PhD student in the Cluster "Conspiracy Theories in Online Environments and Their Religious Connotations" of the URPP Digital Religion(s) and at the chair for the Study of Religion with a focus on Social Sciences. Focusing on the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, Marie researches a) how these narratives shape the discourse around Muslims online and b) how this affects the way Muslims are perceived by those who believe in the conspiracy theory. c) Additionally, the project examines how this in return affects Muslims themselves.

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)