Oliver Krüger
Oliver Krüger (born 1973) is a German professor in Religious studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In his Ph.D. thesis on "Virtuality and Immortality" he analyzed the religious and philosophical context of posthumanism and transhumanism. 2004 the thesis was awarded by the German Association for the History of Religion. After his Ph.D. he worked on the significance of the Internet for the Wicca movement in a research project at the University of Heidelberg. From 2005-2007 Krüger served as visiting lecturer and visiting research fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University while exploring the alternative funeral culture in the United States, especially the Funeral Consumer's Alliance. In 2007 he was appointed to the chair for Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) at Fribourg University, from 2011-2014 he was president of the Swiss Association for the Study of Religion. In 2012/13 he was invited as fellow to the International Centre for Advanced Studies Morphomata at the University of Cologne (Germany). His research is focused mainly on religion and media / religion and science.
Publications
- The Internet as Distributor and Mirror of Religious and Ritual Knowledge. In: Asian Journal of Social Science 32 (2/2004), S. 183-197
- ‘It’s all about loving your parents.’ The Reflection of Tradition, Modernity and Rituals in Popular Indian Movies. In: Marburg Journal of Religion 9 (1/2004), 22 p. (E-Journal)
- Gnosis in Cyberspace? Body, Mind and Progress in Posthumanism. In: Journal of Technology and Evolution 2005, 18 p. (Online)
- Gaia, God, and the Internet. The History of Evolution and the Utopia of Community in Media Society. In: Numen – International Review for the History of Religion 54 (2/2007), p. 138-173.
- The Price of Death. In: German Research. Magazine of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2/2008, p. 22-28
- The Suspension of Death. The Cryonic Utopia in the Context of the U.S. Funeral Culture. In: Marburg Journal of Religion 15 (2010) (Online)
- Virtualität und Unsterblichkeit. Die Visionen des Posthumanismus. Rombach Wissenschaft Reihe Litterae (Band 123), Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-7930-9405-0.
- Die mediale Religion. Probleme und Perspektiven religionswissenschaftlicher und wissenssoziologischer Medienforschung. Reihe Religion und Medien (Band 1), transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1874-7.*
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