Nina Rageth

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Short Biography

01/2024-12/2025 postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
08/2020-09/2022 Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Zurich
2017-2018 Visiting researcher at Goldsmiths University of London (SNF doc.mobility)
2014-2020 PhD candidate at the Department of Religious Studies and at the University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe at the University of Zurich
2013-2014 Teaching and research assistant at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Zurich
2010-2013 MA in the Study of Religion at the University of Zurich
2010-201 Visiting student at SOAS University of London
2006-2010 BA in the Study of Religion, Sanskrit, Indian Studies at the University of Zurich

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

2022 (spring): MA Seminar: Analysis of qualitative Data
2022 (spring): BA Theis writing group
2022 (spring): Lecture: Religious traditions II: Hinduism/Buddhism
2021 (fall): Foundation course: Method in Social Science: Fieldwork
2021 (fall): BA Theis writing group
2021 (spring): BA Seminar: Spirituality in contemporary society: discourses, practices, commodities
2021 (fall): Lecture: Religious traditions II: Hinduism and Buddhism
2020 (fall): Foundation course: Method in Social Science: Fieldwork
2019 (fall): Bachelor’s advanced revision course: The Concept of Spirituality in Religious Studies with Hélène Coste
2019 (fall): Foundation course: Method in Social Science: Fieldwork
2019 (spring): Foundation course: Method in Social Science: Interview Techniques
2017 (spring): Foundation course: Method in Social Science: Interview Techniques
2016 (fall): BA Seminar: Religion and Medicine, mit Prof. Dr. D. Lüddeckens
2014 (spring): BA Seminar: Social-scientific Study of Religion, mit Prof. Dr. D. Lüddeckens
2013 (fall): BA Seminar with a Study Trip to Tamil Nadu: Routes and Roots. Travelling Concepts with Prof. D. Lüddeckens

Articles

2018 "A Reciprocal Relationship: Siddha Medicine in the Context of a Hindu Guru Organization", in: Asian Medicine 13/1-2, 222-246.
2017 "Indian Sufism in Israel: A Musically Orchestrated Interaction", (co-authored with David Landau) in: PaRDeS, the Journal of German Association of Jewish Studies, Band 23, 163–180.
2015 "Gemeinschaft in der Zweiten Generation. Religiöses Deutungssystem und Geteilte Lebenspraxis in Auroville“, in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 23/2, 258–284.
2015 “Multi-sited Fieldwork”, Asia & Europe Bulletin. The Bulletin of the University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe, 2016/5: 34-35.
2014 “Priesterinnen im Hinduismus“, facultativ. Magazinbeilage zur Reformierten Presse, 2014/2.

Book Chapter in Edited Volume

2023 “Governing with a Lockdown Beard: The COVID-19 Crisis as a laboratory for Narendra Modi’s Hindutva”, (co-authored with David Landau), in: Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer, Koonal Duggal (eds.): Religious Gurus and Media, UCL Press: London, 125-148.
2018 “Self-fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner. Semantic Structure and Structuring Conditions”, in: Lüddeckens, Dorothea und Monika Schrimpf (eds.): Medicine - Religion - Spirituality. Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing, transcript: Bielefeld, 91-132.

Translation

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