Axel Michaels
Director
Classical Indology
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Axel Michaels Prof. Dr. Academic Staff Position Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at Heidelberg University, 2008-2017 Director of the Department of Classical Indology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University Professor for Classical Indology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 619 "Dynamics of Ritual" of the German Research Foundation Projects A14 Legal Flows B7 Staging Religion (project completed) B14 Religion on Stage (project completed) B19 Ageing in a Transcultural Context C10 Patterns of Exchange (project completed)
Research Interest
Classical Indology
Publications
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Der Hinduismus. Geschichte und Gegenwart. München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 3. Aufl. 2010 (1. Aufl. 1998, 2. Aufl. 2006).
