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Department of Religious Studies
Nina Rageth

Nina Rageth, Dr.

  • Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
  • Lehrbeauftragte
Address
Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar, Kantonsschulstrasse 1, 8001 Zürich
Room number
KAA-E-10

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Short Biography

  • Since September 2026: Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Zurich

  • 2024-2026 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2020-2022 Senior Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Zurich
  • 2017-2018 Visiting researcher, Goldsmiths University of London
  • 2014-2020 PhD candidate, University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe, University of Zurich
  • 2013-2014 Teaching and research assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Zurich
  • 2010-2013 Master in the Study of Religion, University of Zurich
  • 2010-2011 Visiting MA-student, SOAS University of London
  • 2006-2010 Bachelor in the Study of Religion, Sanskrit, Indian Studies, University of Zurich

Research Interests

  • identity and belonging
  • body politics
  • circumcision
  • religion and medicine
  • new religious movements
  • Hindu guru organisations
  • spirituality
  • qualitative research methods

Regional Focus

India, Israel, Switzerland

Synopsis of PhD Project

Religion and Medicine: South Indian Guru Organisations and Siddha Medicine ZORA

Teaching

  • 2026 (fall): Basic Course: Fieldwork
  • 2026 (fall) Religious Cultures in Past and Present
  • 2026 (fall): Research Colloquium: Social Scientific Study of Religions
  • 2026 (fall): Religion and the Body: Theoretical Perspectives (University of Basel)
  • 2022 (spring): MA Seminar Analysis of Qualitative Data
  • 2022 (spring): BA Thesis Writing Group
  • 2022 (spring): BA Lecture Religious Traditions II: Hinduism/Buddhism
  • 2021 (fall): BA Seminar Method in Social Science: Fieldwork
  • 2021 (fall): BA Thesis Writing Group
  • 2021 (spring): BA Seminar Spirituality in Contemporary Society: Discourses, Practices, Commodities
  • 2021 (spring): BA Lecture Religious Traditions II: Hinduism and Buddhism
  • 2020 (fall): BA Seminar Method in Social Science: Fieldwork
  • 2019 (fall): Bachelor’s Advanced Revision Course: The Concept of Spirituality in Religious Studies (with Hélène Coste)
  • 2019 (fall): BA Seminar Method in Social Science: Fieldwork
  • 2019 (spring): BA Seminar Method in Social Science: Interview Techniques
  • 2017 (spring): BA Seminar Method in Social Science: Interview Techniques
  • 2016 (fall): BA Seminar Religion and Medicine (with Dorothea Lüddeckens)
  • 2014 (spring): BA Seminar Social-scientific Study of Religion\s (with Dorothea Lüddeckens)
  • 2013 (fall): BA Seminar with a Study Trip to India: Routes and Roots. Travelling Concepts (with Dorothea Lüddeckens)

Publications

Monography

Authority Beyond the Ashram: Hindu Guru Organisations and the Patronage of Siddha Medicine in Contemporary India. Religion in Contemporary Asia. Gender, Aesthetics, and Global Entanglements. De Gruyter (forthcoming 2026, Open Access).

Articles

  • 2026 “Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.70082.
  • 2026 “Ein umstrittener Verzicht.” Tachles. Das Jüdische Wochenmagazin.
  • 2023 “Governing with a Lockdown Beard: The COVID-19 Crisis as a Laboratory for Narendra Modi’s Hindutva.” In Gurus and Media. Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital, edited by Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer, and Koonal Duggal. UCL Press. (with David Landau) https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177425/1/Gurus-and-Media.pdf.
  • 2022 “Modis Metamorphose. Vom Staatsführer zum Hindu-Guru und zurück.” facultativ. Das Magazin der Theologischen Fakultät. https://www.trf.uzh.ch/de/aktuell/facultativ/2022/rageth_modis_metamorphose.html.
  • 2018 “A Reciprocal Relationship: Siddha Medicine in the Context of a Hindu Guru Organization.” Asian Medicine 13 (1-2): 222-46. https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341414.
  • 2018 “Self-Fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner: Semantic Structure and Structuring Conditions.” In Medicine - Religion - Spirituality: Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing, edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf. Transcript Verlag. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/huji-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6956037.
  • 2017 “Indian Sufism in Israel: A Musically Orchestrated Interaction.” PaRDeS. Journal of the German Association of Jewish Studies. JewBus, Jewish Hindus & other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions (23): 163-80. (with David Landau)
  • 2016 “Erzürnt wie Kali.” RosaRot: Zeitschrift für Feministische Anliegen und Geschlechterfragen (51): 28. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-731162.
  • 2016 “Multi-sited Fieldwork.” Asia & Europe Bulletin.
  • 2015 “Gemeinschaft in der zweiten Generation. Religiöses Deutungssystem und geteilte Lebenspraxis in Auroville.” Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 23 (2): 258–84. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfr-2015-0012.
  • 2014 “Priesterinnen im Hinduismus.” facultativ. Das Magazin der Theologischen Fakultät.

Translation

  • 2017 Bananenblätter und Straßenstaub. Tamilische Kurzgeschichten aus Südindien und Sri Lanka. Übersetzt von Eveline Masilamani-Meyer und Nina Rageth, Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag.

Media Contributions