Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Birgit Heller

birgit.heller@univie.ac.at

Ao. Univ.-Prof. of Religious Studies

Deputy head of the Department of Religious Studies

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Teaching (u:find)

Research interests:

• themes of the systematic-comparative Religious Studies (idea of man; dying, death and grief; conceptions of the afterlife; religions and medical ethics)
• Questions of Gender Studies in the context of Religious Studies
• Hindu religions; modern Hinduism
• Practical Religious Studies: Interreligious and spiritual dimensions of Palliative Care