History of Religions has a broad research profile that includes historical-philological as well as ethnographic-anthropological approaches. This is reflected in our teachings programmes as well.
Through its broad empirical interests, that is not limited by time or space, History of Religions requires that the researchers develop a specialisation, for example in a specific language or cultural area. Simultaneously, historians of religion wish to contribute to the development of theoretical and analytical perspectives within the broader study of religions. This relates to religion in culture and society due to the central role that contextualisation of the empirical material has in the discipline.