Faculty Dissertation Prize

The Faculty Dissertation Prize is awarded annually for the three best doctoral theses approved at the Faculty of Catholic Theology. The Prize is bestowed at the dies facultatis every October.

Religious Studies Awardees

2023/24

Joseph Chadwin. Long for One's Ancestors, Miss One's Home: An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Lived Chinese Popular Religion (supervisor: Lukas K. Pokorny)

2022/23

Magdalena Kraler. Yoga Breath: The Reinvention of Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma in Early Modern Yoga (supervisor: Karl Baier)

2020

Sarah-Allegra Schönberger. Vaiśravaṇa. Dämonischer Wächter und Herr der Reichtümer: Ikonographische Transformationen im Kulturtransfer zwischen Indien und dem sino-japanischen Raum [Vaiśravaṇa. Demonic Guardian and Lord of Wealth: Iconographical Transformations in the Cultural Transfer Between India and the Sino-Japanese Area] (supervisor: Karl Baier)

2017

Sampsa Andrei Saarinen. The Death of God and the Moods of the Future: A Study of Friedrich Nietzsche's Criticism of Religion in the Light of his Communication of Mood (supervisor: Hans Gerald Hödl)

2013

Angelika M. Rohrbacher. Die Dramatisierung des Kontaktes: Abgrenzungsrhetorik im Religionsnarrativ "Judentum" [The Dramatisation of Contact: The Rhetoric of Demarcation in the Religious Narrative of "Judaism"] (supervisor: Hans Gerald Hödl)