Astrid MATTES
Astrid MATTES
Tenure-Track Professor
Astrid Mattes is Tenure-Track Professor for Social Science Research on Religion at the Research Centre Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society at the University of Vienna. She studied Political Science and Religious Studies in Vienna and Limerick and wrote her dissertation on the roles of religion in integration policies. Between 2010 and 2018, she was involved in various research programs at the University of Vienna, for example in the mapping of religions in Vienna and on politics of inclusion and exclusion. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, she worked on various European projects and led a project on youth religiosity online and offline. Research stays have taken her to the University of Toronto (Department of Sociology), the University of Lucerne (Department of Religious Studies) and EURAC Research Bolzano (Institute for Minority Rights). In her research, Astrid Mattes focuses on religious diversity and changing religious landscapes, youth religiosity, digital religion, feminist perspectives on religion, political aspects of Christianity and Islam in Europe, the intersections of migration and religion, and empirical methods in Religious Studies.