Prof. Hans Gerald Hoedl (University of Vienna, Institute for the Study of Religions)

Main fields of his scholarly interest include aesthetics of religion, ritual theory, West-African and Afro-American Religions, Mormonism, Critique of religion, philosophy of dialogue. He is a member of the editorial board of the historical-critical edition of the works of F. W. Nietzsche. He has recently published Der letzte Jünger des Philosophen Dionysos. Studien zur systematischen Bedeutung von Nietzsches Selbstthematisierungen im Kontext seiner Religionskritik (Berlin-New York, de Gruyter 2009), and together with Lukas Pokorny (eds.), Religion in Austria, Vol 1, Praesens Verlag 2013. Also he is leading the project "Mapping Religions in Vienna".