Katja Rakow
Dep. Filosofie en Religiewetenschap - Religiewetenschap
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
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.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Rakow, K. (2015). Religious Branding and the Quest to Meet Consumer Needs - Joel Osteen’s ‘Message of Hope’. In Jan Stievermann, Philip Goff & Detlef Junker (Eds.), Religion and the Marketplace in the United States - New Perspectives and New Findings (pp. 215-239) (24 p.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Berg, Esther & Rakow, K. (2016). Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: - Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before?. Transcultural Studies, 2016 (2), (pp. 180-203) (24 p.).
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Rakow, K. (29-06-2017). The Bible in the Digital Age - Negotiating the Limits of ‘Bibleness’ of Different Bible Media. In Minna Opas & Anna Haapalainen (Eds.), Christianity and the Limits of Materiality (pp. 101-121) (23 p.). Bloomsbury.
