Publications


Books

—:   2024. Kosmos, Gesellschaft, Religion: Zoroastrische und manichäische Sozialordnungsdiskurse in der langen Spätantike [Cosmos, Society, Religion: Zoroastrian and Manichaean Discourses on Social Order in Late Antiquity] (= Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 80). Boston und Berlin: De Gruyter.


Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Volumes

—:   und Thierry Göckel. 2025. "The Tartarian Empire. Conspirituality, Pop Culture, and the End of the Past." In Nova Religio 29 (2): 534.

—:   2025. "Reading Evola in Germany." In Aries 25 (2): 226257.

—:   2025. "Conspirituality and meme culture: transgressive dynamics in right-wing esoteric social media discourse." In Religion 55 (1): 4366.

—:   2024. "Exploring Zoroastrianism and Esotericism in the context of global religious history." In Religiographies 3 (1): 2743.

—:   2024. "A Most Orthodox Empire? Priestly discourse in Sasanian Iran and beyond." In Journal of the American Oriental Society 144 (1): 6382.

—:   2024. "Konspiritualität." In Philipp Wilhelm Kranemann und Ansgar Martins, Hg. Esoterik in der politischen Bildung [Esotericism in political education]Frankfurt a. M.: Wochenschau Verlag, 123133.


Reviews

Lartillot, Françoise and Uwe Puschner, eds. 2025. Kulturpessimismus/Le Pessimisme Culturel [Cultural Pessimism]. Berlin et. al.: Peter Lang. In Religious Studies Review 51 (2), 2025: 538539.

Mann, Amandeep Kaur. 2022. William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult. London and New York: Routledge. In Religious Studies Review 51 (1), 2025: 217218.

Moin, A. Azfar and Alan Strathern. 2022. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence. New York: Columbia University Press. In Religious Studies Review 51 (1), 2025: 149.

Pokorny, Lukas K. and Franz Winter. 2024. Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China. London and New York: Bloomsbury. In Religious Studies Review 50 (4), 2024: 813.

Graziano, Michael. 2021. Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. In Religious Studies Review 50 (4), 2024: 807808.

Henty, Liz. 2022. Exploring Archaeoastronomy: A History of Its Relationship with Archaeology and Esotericism. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books. In Religious Studies Review 50 (3), 2024: 646.

Harlass, Ulrich. 2021. Die orientalische Wende der theosophischen Gesellschaft: Eine Untersuchung der theosophischen Lehrentwicklungen in der Zeit zwischen den Hauptwerken Alfred Percy Sinnetts [The Oriental Turn of the Theosophical Society: An Investigation of Theosophical Teachings in the Period Between Alfred Percy Sinnett's Major Works] (= Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 77). Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. In Religious Studies Review 50 (3), 2024: 643644.

Han, Jae Hee. 2024. Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Religious Studies Review 50 (3), 2024: 595596.

Vitanova-Kerber, Viktoria and Helmut Zander, eds. 2023. Anthroposophieforschung: Forschungsstand – Perspektiven – Leerstellen [Anthroposophy Research: State of Research – Perspectives – Lacunae] (= Okkulte Moderne. Beiträge zur Nichthegemonialen Innovation 7). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenburg. In Religious Studies Review 50 (2), 2024: 383.

Dahl, Göran. 2023. The Nature of Identitarianism. London: Routledge. In Religious Studies Review 50 (1), 2024: 191.

Asprem, Egil and Julian Strube, eds. 2021. New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism. In AЯGOS 1, 2022.

Sims Bainbridge, William. 2013. eGods. Faith versus fantasy in computer gaming. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Online. Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet 5, 2014: 352–355.


Other publications in print and online

—:   2025. "Satan, Neonazis und der schmale Grat der Subkultur [Satan, Neonazis, and the Fine Line of Subculture]." In Der Standard – Religionswissenschaftsblog. 20.10.2025.

—:   2025. "Dynamitgrüße vom Architekturenthusiasten. [Dynamite greetings from an architecture enthusiast]." In Jungle World 41: 10–11.

—:   und Philipp Kranemann. 2025. "'Ezra and Nehemia': Bibelcomic, das Brettspiel? ["Ezra and Nehemia": Bible Comic, the boardgame?]." In Boardgame Historian: Geschichte und Gesellschaft in analogen Spielen (02.09.25).

—:   2024. "Eine neue Religion für die Europäer. [A new religion for Europeans]." In Jungle World 51. 14–15.

—:   und Kolja Huth. 2024. "Provokative Ruinen [Provocative Ruins]." In Jungle World 26. 12–13.

—:   2024. "Philosophisch angehauchter Rechtsextremismus. [Philosophically inspired right-wing extremism]." In Jungle World 5. 12–13.

—:   2021. "Die extreme Rechte und Esoterik [The extreme right and esotericism.]" In Der Rechte Rand 189: 2223.