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Chair of Religious Studies

Prof. Dr. Robert A. Yelle

The Chair of Prof. Yelle is devoted to research in general, Indian, and European history of religion as well as the history of religious studies as a subject. Research specialisms include the semiotics of religion, structuralist and linguistic approaches to ritual and myth, political secularism, Hinduism and the history of colonial connections, the interpretative history of secularization since the Reformation, as well as the relationship between time and religion.

Teaching, Research, Staff

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Studying Religion

Religious Studies at LMU

Religious Studies at LMU is organised as an inter-faculty subject, and can be studied at both Bachelor and Master level.

Program coordinators and academic advisors

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Site of the inter-faculty Religious Studies degree program

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Chair and Secretary

Prof. Dr. Robert A. Yelle
Wenzel Braunfels, M.A.

Secretary

Contact and address

Postal address
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie
und Religionswissenschaft
Professur für Religionswissenschaft
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München

Secretary's office/Address for visitors
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
Raum M 022 (Raumfinder)
80539 München

Office hours by appointment.