Christian Rossi holds a Swiss bank commercial & business diploma and a sign language interpreter diploma for deaf and deaf-blind. Furthermore, he holds a BA and MA in Religious Studies, Biblical Studies and Psychology from the University of Zurich. Currently, he is a doctoral student and writing his dissertation about “Jehovah’s Witnesses” with a psychological approach.

• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• New Religious Movements
• Psychology of Religion
• Apostasy
• LGBT+ & Religion

Current PhD: «Is there a life afterwards? – Ostracism among Jehovah’s Witnesses and its consequences from the perspective of the psychology of religion»

Seminar for Master students: «New Religious Communities – The Jehovah’s Witnesses» (Autumn semester 2017)

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft
• International Cultic Studies Association