Michael Stausberg (born April 28, 1966) is a German scholar on religion. He was born in

Köln Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

. He studied in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in three ...

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, secon ...

and

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

. He is now a professor at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

. Apart from

Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheisti ...

, Zoroastrian priesthood in contemporary

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

and related topics, Stausberg's interests encompass the history and terminology of the scientific study of religion,

ritual A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed according to a set sequence. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized ...

& ritual theory, and religion & modern tourism. In 2012 he was elected fellow of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive ...

Academic career

1991 - M.A. (

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

).
1995 - Dr. phil. (University of Bonn).
2000 - Docent (

University of Uppsala Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. The university rose to significance during ...

).
2003 - Privat Dozent (

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

).
1992-1995 - Graduiertenkolleg Scholarship for „Interkulturelle religiöse bzw. religionsgeschichtliche Studien“ (University of Bonn).
1996-2000 - Feodor Lynen Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (University of Uppsala).
2004 - Professor in the scientific study of religion (

).
2005-2007 - Director for the scientific study of religion (University of Bergen).

Selected bibliography

* ''

Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion ''The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion'' is a scholarly book about the academic study of religion. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler Steven Joseph Engler (born 1962) is a Canadian scholar of religion, Professor at Mount Royal ...

'' (2016) (ed.) * Riter och ritteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser (2002) * Die Religion Zarathushtras. Geschichte - Gegenwart - Rituale''. 3 Volumes, Stuttgart:

Kohlhammer Verlag W. Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH, or Kohlhammer Verlag, is a German publishing house headquartered in Stuttgart. History Kohlhammer Verlag was founded in Stuttgart on 30 April 1866 by . Kohlhammer had taken over the businesses of his late father-in-l ...

** Volume 1, 2002, ** Volume 2, 2002, ** Volume 3, 2004, * Zoroastrian Rituals in Context (2004) (ed.) * Zarathustra und seine Religion (2005) * Theorizing Rituals ( 2006/7) (co-editor) * Contemporary Theories of Religion (2009) (ed.) * Religion im modernen Tourismus (2010) * Religion and Modern Tourism (Forthcoming) * Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. (2014) (ed.)

Other academic activities

* Co-editor (with Steven Engler) of the journal ''

Religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatur ...

'' * Co-editor (with Gustavo Benavides) of the book-series ''Religion and Reason: Theory in the Study of Religion'' (

Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

)

Sources

http://www.hf.uib.no/i/religion/tilsette/stausberg.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070612154815/http://www.zegk.uni-heidelberg.de/religionswissenschaft/Stausberg.htm
http://www.uib.no/personer/Michael.Stausberg
http://www.michaelstausberg.net/

References

1966 births Living people University of Bonn alumni University of Bergen alumni University of Bergen faculty Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Zoroastrian studies scholars {{Germany-theologian-stub