Media Inquiries

For media appearances of our core team, please use the following information:

Lukas K. Pokorny is Professor and Chair in Religious Studies and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna. His expertise comprises East Asian religions; new religious movements; millenarianism; and religion in Austria.
E-mail: lukas.pokorny@univie.ac.at

Hans Gerald Hödl is Professorial Research Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at University of Vienna. His main areas of research are West African and Afro-American Religions, Mormonism, ritual studies, theory of sacrifice, critique of religion (Friedrich Nietzsche), and aesthetics of religion.
E-mail: hans.hoedl@univie.ac.at

Dirk Schuster is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna. His expertise comprises anti-semitism in the past and present, the "völkisch" movement, Teutonic and Celt religions, secularisation in Europe and the history of religion in Europe – especially in Austria and Germany.
E-mail: dirk.schuster@univie.ac.at

Karl Baier is Professorial Research Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. His expertise comprises alternative religion (especially nineteenth and twentieth century); mesmerism; occultism; modern yoga; and psychedelics.
E-mail: karl.baier@univie.ac.at

Moritz Maurer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focusses on the connections between the extreme right, conspiracy theories, and esotericism, especially Traditionalism and dynamics in social media, the history of the
free religious movement, and the history of religions in late antiquity, especially in Western and Central Asia (Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism). 
Email: moritz.maurer@univie.ac.at 

Further information can be found here.