PD Dr. Marie-Therese Mäder

Lecturer in religion and the public sphere
University Zürich, UZH
Centre for Religion, Economy, and Politics
Kantonsschulstrasse 1
CH-8001 Zürich
E-mail: marie-therese.maeder@uzh.ch

Lecturer in the study of religion
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 München
+49 (0)89 / 2180-3945
E-mail: M.Maeder@lmu.de

Lecturer in media ethics
Multimedia Production
Fachhochschule Graubünden und Berner Fachhochschule
Pulvermühlestrasse 57
CH-7000 Chur
E-mail: Marie-Therese.Maeder@fhgr.ch

Web page: marie-theresemaeder.com


Biography

Marie-Therese Mäder is a scholar of religion, media and philosophy with particular expertise in the field of media and religion where she has published several articles and books. In 2011/12 she was assistant and from 2013-16 teaching and research associate at the Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics at the University of Zurich (UZH). In between two research stays in Yale/US (2012, Film Studies program) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/US (2015/16, Comparative Media Department followed. In 2019 she habilitated at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU) about religious communities in the media. She teaches in the Study of Religion at LMU, in the field of Religion and the Public sphere at the Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics (UZH), and media ethics at the universities of applied science Graubünden and Bern (CH). She is a member of the research group Media and Religion and of the editorial boards of JRFM, of the book series Religion, Film und Medien (Schüren, Marburg), and Media and Religion (Nomos, Baden-Baden). In 2021 she won a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship (EU Horizon 2020). She is the author of numerous essays, book chapters, and books on film and religion, migration, funeral culture, ethics and documentary film, religion in reality shows, and audience research.

• Mäder, Marie-Therese. Mormon Lifestyles: Communicating Religion and Ethics in Documentary Media. 1. Edition. Nomos, 2020.
• Mäder, Marie-Therese."Das Spanferkel, die Realityshow und die vielfältigen Interaktionsfelder zwischen Medien und Religion". In Karimi, Ahmad Milad, Hrsg., Religion und Ästhetik: Zur filmisch-seriellen Narration des Religiösen, 1. Edition, 72-95. Freiburg München: Verlag Karl Alber, 2021.
• Mäder, Marie-Therese, Alberto Saviello und Baldassare Scolari. Highgate Cemetery. Nomos Verlag, 2020.
• Mäder, Marie-Therese, Fritz, Natalie, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Stefanie Knauß, und Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati. Sichtbare Religion: eine Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft. De Gruyter Studium. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
  

Research Focus

Mediatisation of rites of passage with focus on weddings
Migration and religious identity processes
Ethics and religion in documentary media
Religion and ethics in digital space
Image practices in cemeteries
(Self-) Representations of religious communities in the media
Media ethics
Images in religious practice
Audience research in the field of media and religion
The Passion in film history
Film and religion
Gender and religion
Mormonism

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