Katja Rakow

Katja Rakow is assistant professor Religious Studies. She studied Religious Studies, Anthropology and Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. In 2010, she received her PhD in Religious Studies from Heidelberg University. In her dissertation she analyzed transformation and innovation processes in Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In two post-doctoral research projects on Christian megachurches in the United States and Singapore, she looked at the material dimension of religious norms and practices in contemporary Pentecostalism with regard to religious economies, branding strategies and their distribution in global networks.

From 2013 to 2015, she was leading the Junior Research Group "Transcultural Dynamics of Pentecostalism in Singpore" at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context "at Heidelberg University. Since 1 September 2015, she works at Utrecht University.