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Katja Rakow is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, specializing in Religious Studies. She studied Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and obtained her PhD in Religious Studies from Heidelberg University in 2010. Her dissertation focused on the transformation and innovation processes in Tibetan Buddhism in the West. Rakow has conducted post-doctoral research on Christian megachurches in the United States and Singapore, examining the material dimensions of religious norms and practices in contemporary Pentecostalism, along with their branding strategies and distribution in global networks. From 2013 to 2015, she was the Principal Investigator of the Research Group 'Transcultural Dynamics of Pentecostalism in Singapore,' part of the Cluster of Excellence Asia-Europe: Global Context at Heidelberg University. Since September 2015, she has been at Utrecht University, where she is currently engaged in the project 'Practicing Texts,' which adopts a material approach to the study of religious texts and associated practices across various religions. Rakow also serves as an editor for the journal 'Material Religion: Journal of Objects, Art and Belief.'
Department of Psychology