Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

apl. Prof. Dr. Peter J. Bräunlein

Peter J. Bräunlein is an anthropologist and religious scholar. Since October 1, 2019, he is a researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the BMBF research project "From 'bare necessities' to 'promising things': On the materiality of (forced) migration".
The main research topics of the project are affect and object, promising things, migration research in material turn, materiality of migration and religion, migration issues.


Religious Studies and Ethnology in the Material Turn, Religious Pluralism of Southeast Asia, Spirits in Modernity, Theory and Method of Religious Studies, Christianity in Europe and Southeast Asia, Museum, Film, Ethnology and Religious Studies in Dialogue with Image and Media Studies


Europe and Southeast Asia