Nicole M. Bauer
Assistant Professor
Nicole Bauer holds a PostDoc position at the Department for Religious Studies at the University of Graz and is the principal investigator in the FWF funded project "Gender and the Bible" (since 2023). She is also affiliated as a Research Fellow at the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa (since 2023) and at the Department for Religious Studies at Heidelberg University (since 2022) and works as a liaison lecturer for the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES). She studied sociology (Mag. phil. 2005) and religious studies (Dr. phil. 2015) at the University of Graz and the University of Heidelberg. In addition, she completed the psychotherapeutic propaedeutic course at the University of Graz (2008) and a specialist course for systemic family therapy at the Austrian Association for Systemic Therapy and Systemic Studies (ÖAS) in Salzburg (2023). Study and research stays have taken her to the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg (Coimbra Group Scholarship), the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (as part of her dissertation), the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum in Rome (as part of her habilitation) and the University of South Africa in Pretoria (Research Fellow).
Main research areas
Contemporary religiosity, Catholicism in contemporary society, exorcism and possession in contemporary society, Judaism and Kabbalah in the past and present, religion and medicine, religion and psychotherapy, new religious movements, economics of religion, religion and gender, social science methods in religious research.