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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,Religious Studies and Jewish Studies |
| Keywords | Minderheiten, Demokratisierung, Gewalt, gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Religion |
| Honours and awards | 2025: British Academy Visiting Fellowship (3 months) 2010: Tipton Distinguished Fellow of Catholic Studies, California Santa Barbara University 2004: Ford Foundation Fellowship at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 2001: Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship at Queen's University Belfast (3 months) 2001: M N Srinivas Memorial Prize for best article by a young sociologist |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Bielefeld |
| Institution | Universität Bielefeld |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka | Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2025 |
Programme(s)
| 2025 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Rowena Robinson is an international authority in the field of religious sociology with the special focus on religion in India in contexts of conversion, Christianity and ethnic conflict. In her work, she has questioned the marginalisation of minorities not only in the public sphere but also in the intellectual tradition and argued for the legitimate place of Christianity on the Indian sociological canvas. She has brought concepts such as accommodation, assimilation and syncretism under analytical enquiry. While in Germany, she will expand her thinking on forms of religious and political sociality and belonging to work on the key but often overlooked notion of fraternity, especially in relation to Indian constitutional democracy. |