Prof. Dr. Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati

• since 10.2016 Chair for the Study of Religion and the History of Religion at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Munich (LMU)
• 2010–2016 Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics (ZRWP), Universities of Basle, Fribourg, Lausanne, Lucerne, Zurich and the Collegium Helveticum (ETHZ), position located at the University of Zurich
• 2004–2009 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professorship in the study of religion at the University of Zurich and foundation of the international research group Media and Religion
• 2002 Habilitation with the thesis Immagini urbane. Interpretazioni religiose della città antica and venia legendi in the study of religion at the University of Zurich
• 1996 Doctoral thesis in New Testament Täuschung und Klarheit. Zur Wechselwirkung zwischen Vision und Geschichte in der Johannesoffenbarung at the University of Zurich
• 1985–1990 Study of theology and the study of religion at the Universities of Fribourg(CH) and Zurich

Fellowships

• 04–09.2024 Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt
• 02.2023 Visiting Scholar at the Faculty for Divinity, University of Cambridge/UK
• 11.2022 Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St. Andrews/UK
• 04–05.2004 Visiting fellowship at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento
• 1998–1999 Research stay at the University of Oxford (Prof. Dr. Christopher Rowland, Queen’s College
• 08–12.1996 Swiss Institute in Rome

• Media and religion in culture
• Images and visuality
• Film and audiovisual media
• Transmediality and transmission processes of religion through times and social spheres
• Gender and religion (with a particular interest for the body, clothing and identity processes)
• Religion, public space and spatial theory
• Hermeneutics in the Study of Religion
• European history of religion, religion in contemporary society
  

• since 2021CrossCurrents, Advisory Board
• since 2020 Filosofia e Teologia (Lombardy Editorial Board)
• since 2016 Religion and Gender, Advisory Board
• since 2014 Journal for Religion, Film and Media, Chief Editor
• 2018–2022 Reading Religion, Advisory Board
  

• since 2018 Religion, Film und Medien, Marburg: Schüren
• since 2018 Media and Religion | Medien und Religion, Baden-Baden: Nomos
• since 2014 Intessiture, Milan: Mimesis
• since 2007 Research in Contemporary Religion, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• 2008–2017 Film und Theologie, Marburg: Schüren
• 2010–2016 Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik, Zürich:PANO/Baden-Baden: Nomos

www.pezzoli-olgiati.ch

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria, Religion in der Kultur erforschen. Ein Essay, Zürich: Pano 2019.

Knauss, Stefanie/Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria (eds.), Religion in Representations of Europe. Shared and Contested Practices, Media and Religion 8, Nomos: Baden-Baden 2023, doi.org/10.5771/9783748914501

Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina/Jeffers, Ann/Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria (Hg.), Handbuch Gender und Religion, 2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, UTB Theologie, Religion 3062, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021.

Fritz, Natalie/Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina/Knauss, Stefanie/Mäder, Marie-Therese/Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria, Sichtbare Religion. Eine Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, De Gruyter Studium, Berlin: De Gruyter 2018.

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria, Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Setting the Scene, in: Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria (ed.), Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Explorations in Visual und Material Practices, Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik 13, Zürich: Pano/Baden-Baden: Nomos 2015, 9–38.

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria, Theories of Religion Easily Introduced with A Life in a Tin (Una vita in scatola, Bruno Bozzetto, IT 1967, 6’), Journal for Religion, Film and Media 8, 1, 2022, 17–32, doi: 10.25364/05.8:2022.2.2