List of all publications (pdf)
Articles
(selective)
Articles (selective, online)
see also Research
"Modernist interpretations of Buddhism in Europe", in: David McMahan (ed.), Buddhism in the Modern World, London: Routledge 2012, 119-135.
"Civic Social Capital and Hindu Tamil Priests and Temples in Switzerland"in: Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration, 5, 2, 2010, 7-15.
"Law, populist politics, and the ban of minarets in Switzerland",
Blog of the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU), 24.09.2010."Temples, Cupolas, Minarets: Public Space as Contested Terrain in Contemporary Switzerland", in: Religio, 17, 2, 2009, 141-153.
"Wenn Tempel heimisch werden", arcticle accompanying the exhibition "Kuppel - Tempel -Minarett" in Biel/Switzerland, June 2009, together with Andreas Tunger-Zanetti, in: Der Bund, 30. Mai 2009.
"Migration und religiöse Bauten - zur Neuaushandlung des öffentlichen Raums", together with Andreas Tunger-Zanetti, in: Kunst und Kirche, 4, 2008, 32-39.
"Einleitung: Eine Schweiz - viele Religionen"
in: Martin Baumann, Jörg Stolz (Hg.), Eine Schweiz - viele Religionen. Risiken und Chancen des Zusammenlebens, Bielefeld: transcript 2007, 11-18"New and Unfamiliar: Researching Religious Plurality in Scenic Lucerne",
in: CSSR Bulletin, 34, 4, 2005, 61-64."Viele Religionen schaden der Gesellschaft nicht. Von den Gefahren und Chancen der Religionspluralität." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29. Januar 2005.
"Becoming a Colour of the Rainbow: The Social Integration of Indian Hindus in Trinidad, Analysed along a Phase Model of Diaspora", in: Knut A. Jacobsen, Pratap Kumar (eds.), South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions, Leiden: Brill, 2004, 77-96.
"Kirchen, Moscheen, Synagogen - eine Stadt verträgt viele Religionen",
in: Mechthild M. Jansen, Susanne Keval (Hg.), Die multireligiöse Stadt. Religion, Migration und urbane Identität, POLIS 40, Reihe der Hessischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Frankfurt/M. 2004, 16-30."Organising Hindu Traditions in Europe, the case of Tamil Migrants from Sri Lanka", in: Local forms of religious organisation as structural modernisation: Effects on religious community building and globalisation, ed. by Karl-Fritz Daiber and Gerdien Jonker, documentation of a workshop, Marburg 2003, 64-75.
" "Alte Götter in neuer Heimat. Hinduistische Traditionen und Organisationen in Europa." Herder Korrespondenz. Monatshefte für Gesellschaft und Religion, 55, 9, 2001, 460-465.
"Disputed Space for Beloved Goddesses: Hindu Temples, Conflicts and Religious Pluralism in Germany." Rever. Revista de Estudos da Religiao, 1, 4, 2001.
"Global Buddhism." Journal of Global Buddhism, 2, 2001, 1-43.
"Buddhism in Switzerland." Journal of Global Buddhism, 1, 2000, 154-159.
"Diaspora: Genealogies of Semantics and Transcultural Comparison", in: Numen, 47, 3, 2000, 313-337.
"Multiculturalism and the Recognition of Religion." Diskus. Internet Journal of Religion, 5 (1999), guest editor, 8 contributions; with the own aticle on "Multiculturalism and the Ambiguity of Recognizing Religion."
"‘Working in the Right Spirit’. The Application of Buddhist ‘Right Livelihood’ in the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order." Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 5, 1998, 120-143.
"The Dharma has come West. A Survey of Recent Studies and Sources." Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 4, 1997, 194-211.
Helmut Klar. Zeitzeuge zur Geschichte des Buddhismus
in Deutschland. (book editor), 1995.
Websites on religious diversity
"Kuppel - Tempel - Minarett. Religiöse Bauten zugewanderter religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz" (ongoing since 2009)
"Religionen in der Schweiz" (ongoing since 2004)
"Religionsvielfalt im Kanton Luzern" (ongoing since 2002)
"Religious Diversity in Central Europe", in collaboration with the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, seven dia shows (2005)
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