I have published books on research methods in the study of religions (2011, 2021), the demise of religions (2021), global religious history in the 20th century (2020), Zoroastrianism (2002, 2004, 2005, 2015), magic (2012), religion and tourism (2011), theories of religion (2009), ritual theory (2005, 2006), and the figure of Zoroaster in early modern Europe (1998). 

Ongoing publication: Religious Minorities Online (degruyter.com) 

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• RELV301
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Editorial

• Engler, Steven; Stausberg, Michael (2024). Religion in changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts. (external link)
• Whitesides, Kevin; Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2022). Religion: reviewers 2019–2021. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Challenging the secular. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2020). Religion at 50: pasts and futures. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2020). Religion: reviewers 2017–2018. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2018). Peer review, reviewers, and review policy 2015-2016. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). The sacred and the holy – from around 1917 to today. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2016). Editorial: Peer-reviewers and selected review statistics, 2013–2014. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Big Gods in review: introducing Ara Norenzayan and his critics. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2013). Editorial: Textbooks in the study of religion\s: introducing a new feature series. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Editorial: In this issue–the centenary of Durkheim's Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2011). Editorial: RELIGION resituated. (external link)
• Engler, Steven; Stausberg, Michael (2010). Acknowledging peer review. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community’. Introduction. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2008). Editorial. (external link)

Book review

• Stausberg, Michael; van der Haven, Alexander (2024). Book review: Religious Minorities at Risk, written by Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox, and Ariel Zellman. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Review of The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins with the assistance of Frederick B. Henry Jr. (2022). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Review of Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions: A Study of the Development of Comparative Religion in the Early 20th Century by Annelies Lannoy. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2022). Book review: Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 1: Urban Centres, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat // Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 2: Urban and Rural Centres – Yazd and Outlying Villages, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2022). Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900, by Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander (eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Book review Thomas Tweed, Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2000. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Book review: Manfred Hutter: Iranische Religionen. Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Bahāʾītum. De Gruyter Studium (Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2019). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, and Jesper Sørensen (eds.), Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz. (Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 13.) Leiden: Brill, 2018. 702 pp. ISBN 9789004385108 (hbk.). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Review essay: Bruce Lincoln,Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison. London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xii + 335 pp. isbn9780226563916 (hbk.), 9780226564074 (pbk.). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2019). Book review of Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Richard King. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2018). Book review of Comparison: A Critical Primer by Aaron W. Hughes. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Review of Bernd-Christian Otto, Jörg Rüpke, Susanne Rau (eds), History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past. Berlin/New York 2015.. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2016). Anmeldelse av Udo Tworuschka, Einführung in die Geschichte der Religionswissenschaft. Darmstadt 2015.. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2015). Review of Alberto Melloni (ed.), Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento. Bologna 2010.. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2015). Book review: Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Anmeldelse av Manfred Bauschulte, Straßenbahnhaltestellen der Aufklärung. Studien zur Religionsforschung 1945–1989. Marburg 2012. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Psychology of religion: autobiographical accounts. Edited by Jacob A. Belzen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Anmeldelse Bruce Lincoln, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions. Chicago, London, 2012. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Anmeldelse av William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, The Sacred is Profane: The political nature of “religion”. Oxford, New York 2013. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Gods and demons, priests and scholars: critical explorations in the history of religions. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Pascal Boyer: The Fracture of an Illusion: science and the dissolution of religion. Frankfurt Templeton lectures 2008 (= Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft, Bd. 20.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010, 112 S. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Review Alex Norman: Spiritual Tourism: travel and religious practice in Western society. London, New York 2011. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Charled Guittard (ed.). Le monothéisme. Diversité, exclusivisme ou dialogue? Paris, 2010. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Anmeldelse Peter Antes: Grunriss der Religionsgeschichte, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2006. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Anmeldelse Jörg Rüpke: Historische Religionswissenschaft, Stutggart 2007. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Rainer Flasche, Religionswissenschaft Treiben: Versuch einer Grundlegung der Religionswissenschaft, Berlin 2008. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Historic religious sciences. An introduction. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Thomassen, Einar; Cavallin, Clemens et al. (2008). Anmeldelse Arne Bugge Amundsen (red.), Norges religionshistorie, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2005. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Theorising religion. Classical and contemporary debates. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Anmeldelse Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys, Dallen Timothy, Daniel H. Olsen (eds), London, 2006. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Anmeldelse Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates, James A. Beckford, John Walliss (eds), Aldershot, Burlington 2006. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Religious theory compendium. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Anmeldelse "Wörterbuch der Religionen, Crhistoph Auffarth, Hans Kippenberg, Axel Michaels (eds), Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlagsanstalt 2006". (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Anmeldelse Kompendium Religionstheorie, Volker Drehsen, Wilhelm Gräb, Birgit Weyel (eds), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Review: James L. Cox, A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences, and Subsequent Debates , T and T International, London, New York (2006). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Review John R. Hinnells, The Zoroastrian Diaspora. Religion and Migration. The Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, the Oriental Faculty, Oxford 1985, Oxford 2005. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Review: New Approaches to the Study of Religion, 2 vols, Peter Antes, Armin Geertz, Randi W. Warne (eds), Berlin, New York 2004. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Review Religionsvitenskapens komparative utfordring, Joel Haviv, Anders Lisdorf, Peter Weiss Poulsen (eds), København 2005. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Review: Éric Phalippou, Aux sources de Shéhérazade. Contes et coutumes des femmes zoroastriennes. Avec 191 photographies en hors-texte de l'auteur et de Martine Phalippou, Leuven 2003 (The sources of Sheherazade: stories and traditions of zoroastrian women, with 191 photographs by the author and Martine Phalippou). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Review eppe Sinding Jensen, The Study of Religion in a new Key. Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion, Århus 2003. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). The Zoroastrian diaspora. Religion and migration. The Ratanbai Katrak lectures, the Oriental Faculty. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Book Review: Handbuch Religionswissenschaft. Religionen und ihre zentralen Themen, Johannes J. Figl (ed.), Innsbruck, Wien, Göttingen 2003. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Book review: D. Jason Slone, Theological Incorrectness. Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't. Oxford, 2004. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Book review: "Themes and Problems of the History of Religions in Contemporary Europe", ed. by Giulia Sfameni Gasparri, Cosenza 2002. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Review: Religion im kulturellen Diskurs / Religion in Cultural Discourse. Festschrift für Hans G. Kippenberg zu seinem 65. Geburtstag / Essays in Honor of Hans G. Kippenberg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Brigitte Luchesi and Kocku von Stuckrad (eds), Berlin, New York 2004. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Theorizing the situation: an improvisation. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Discussing "The Study of Religion in Sweden". (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Norms and values in the study of religion/s. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Religionsmacher des 20. Jahrhunderts. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Wertfreiheit oder Wertmangel in der Religionswissenschaft?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2022). Das Ende von Religionen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). From religion to the religious. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Lebens-Wandel: zwischen Erfahrungen und Entscheidungen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Von der Globalisierung zur Kosmisierung von Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Die Heilsbringer. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Basiswissen Islam 28 - Zucker, Milch und Feuer: wie die Parsis (Zarathushtrier) nach Indien kamen und was sie darüber erzählen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2019). Endangered religions?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Sundqvist, Olof (2019). Comparison: from prejudice to practice. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2019). What is religion like?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2018). Comsopolitanism and Polytropy. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2018). Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality at Religious Sites in Mumbai. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2018). Night Walks to Siddhivinayak: pathways of devotion in Mumbai. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Religion auf der Windschutzscheibe: Religion auf und in Mumbai-Taxis. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Contemporary Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Heterogeneität und Kohärenz in der Religionswissenschaft. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2016). Die Unverwüstlichkeit des Heiligen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2016). Religion in Asian Megacities. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2016). Religionskonstruktive Religionstheorien: Babasaheb Ambedkar und Mordechai Kaplan. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Is There Progress in Theories of Religion?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Zarathustra in Moscow: The Emergence of Zoroastrianism in Russia. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Where is the M in MTSR?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Religious Nonconformism in Evolutionary Perspective. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Tourism as Location for Religion in Contemporary Europe. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Religion and Tourism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Das Ende des Rituals wäre das Ende der Menschheit. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Die Parsis und ihre Priester. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Religione e turismo. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Der historische Zarathustra. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Becoming Jewish in India and Indian in Israel: Bene Israel trajectories. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Tourism in Religion and Religion in Tourism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Why religion is important to tourism - and why tourism matters to religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Zoroastrianism and the Mosaic Distinction. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Response to Wouter Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Roundtable discussion: Teaching and ”Mastering” the Study of Religions. European Religious Studies masters programs compared. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Om religiøsitetens og religionenes evolusjon: Evolusjonsteoretiske og religionshistoriske perspektiver. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Panel: In Religionswissenschaft einführen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Ist die Religionswissenschaft eine wissenschaftliche Disziplin?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Mørtel, mening, makt og mer. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). The Impact of the Bologna Process on the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Zoroastrische Unterscheidungen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). The qualities of the good priest: Lay Zoroastrian perspectives. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Festivals: some theoretical observations. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Zwei Hauptformen der Mobilität in der Europäischen Religionsgeschichte. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Evolusjon og evolusjonsteorier i religionsvitenskap. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Agenten, Grenzen, Heilsversprechen: Annäherungen an rezente Religionstheorien. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). The Changing Worlds of Iranian Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Musings on essentialism(s) and Zoroastrianism(s). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Concluding reflections. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). The Experience of Fire among Parsi Priests. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Achaemenian Festivals. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). The Study of Zoroastrianism: past, present, future. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Gode tanker, gode ord, gode handlinger. Etikk i zoroastrismen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Zoroastrian Festivals. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). A Reinvention of Zoroastrianism in the Modern West: the Mazdasnan Movement. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Tourismus, Religion und Ritual: Streifzüge durch ein neues Forschungsfeld. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Concluding comments. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Religion og turisme: Introduktion til et nyt forskningsfelt. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Findes der en europæisk religionsvidenskab?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Probing a Polytheistic Reading of the Avestan Texts: From Taboo to Theory. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Towards a Religious History of Bombay City. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Renaissancen des Paganen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Panel �Religionswissenschaft(ler) in der Kritik�: Einleitende Bemerkungen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Turisme-et forskningsprosjekt. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Professionalisation and De-professionalisation. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Transfer, Innovation und Identität. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). 50 Years of Zoroastrian Studies. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Zarathustras europäische Geschichte. (external link)

Academic article

• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Die fünfte Geburt Zarathushtras. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Discrimination and (against/among/in/of) religious minorities. (external link)
• van der Haven, Alexander; Stausberg, Michael; Baffelli, Erica (2023). Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Arab, Pooyan Tamimi; Maleki, Ammar (2023). Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Gilhus, Ingvild S.; Bull, Christian et al. (2023). A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?: Reflections on Richard Miller's Why Study Religion?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2022). Auschwitz and the Meta-Topography of the Sacred. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2022). Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an "all-Round Historian of Religion". (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). The sacred, the holy, the numinous – and religion: on the emergence and early history of a terminological constellation. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Religious Studies in Germany: Institutional Frameworks and Constraints. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2015). Bidrar religion til lykke - eller: Hvordan ble religionene lykkelige? En gjennomgang av empirisk forskning og en historisk kontekstualisering av hvordan lykke ble til et ledemotiv i nyere tids religionshistorie. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2015). The psychology of religion/spirituality and the study of religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Advocacy in the study of religion\s. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Tessmann, Anna (2013). The appropriation of a religion: The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Textbooks in review: Introductions to the psychology of religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). What is it all about? Some reflections on Wouter Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). A new theory of religion? Introducing the review symposium on Manuel A. Vasquez: More Than Belief (2011). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Vor und nach der middle passage: Varianten des Ritualtransfers in der afroamerikanischen Geschichte. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). The Bologna process and the study of religion\s in (Western) Europe. (external link)
• Engler, Steven; Stausberg, Michael (2011). Introductory essay. Crisis and creativity: opportunities and threats in the global study of religion\s. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion und die Semantik von ‚Iran’ in der zoroastrischen Religionsgeschichte. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). From 1799 to 2009: Religious Experience Reconsidered-background, argument, responses. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Distinctions, differentiations, ontology, and non-humans in theories of religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Prospects in theories of religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Keul, Istvan (2010). Filmreife Epiphanien im dritten Raum: ein transreligiöser Kult in Mumbai. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Exploring the Meso-levels of Religious Mappings: European religion in regional, urban, and local contexts. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Hell in Zoroastrian history. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (I): Prehistory and history until World War II. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). The Significance of the Kusti. A History of its Zoroastrian Interpretations. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Reflexive Ritualisationen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Approaches to the Study of 'Time' in the History of Religions. (external link)

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Stausberg, Michael (2024). 21st Century Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Religions, Mumbai Style. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Wright, Stuart A. (2020). The Demise of Religion How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Vevaina, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshah (2015). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Otto, Bernd-Christian (2013). Defining Magic: a reader. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Religionswissenschaft. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2011). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Contemporary Theories of Religion: a critical companion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Snoek, Jan; Kreinath, Jens (2006). Theorizing Rituals. Vol. 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Zoroastrian Rituals in Context. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Sundqvist, Olof; Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2002). Riter och ritteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Stausberg, Michael (2024). On theories of religion: varieties, distinctions, questions. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Real religion from the person up: On Christian Smith, Religion (2017). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2024). Das Torhaus: Auschwitz und das Sakrale. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Religions in Bombay/Mumbai: a scenario. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2023). Taxis as Public Micro-Spaces of Religion: Practices, Symbols, and Communication. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2021). Methods, methodology and method in the study of religion/s. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Comparison. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Surveys and questionnaires. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2021). Free-listing. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). The Demise of Religions: Or Do Religions End?. (external link)
• Wright, Stuart A.; Stausberg, Michael; Cusack, Carole M. (2020). How Religions End: Terms and Types. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Playing the Religion Card: The Creation and Dissolution of Rajneeshism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2019). Leaving Hinduism: deconversion as liberation. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Zur Unverwüstlichkeit des Heiligen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2016). Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2016). History. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Gardiner, Mark Q. (2016). Definition. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Karanjia, Ramiyar P. (2015). Rituals. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2015). Zarathustra: Post-Gathic Trajectories. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Vevaina, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshah (2015). Scholarship on Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2015). Zoroastrians in Modern Iran. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Religion and spirituality in tourism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Otto, Bernd-Christian (2013). General introduction. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Otto, Bernd-Christian (2013). Introductions to Parts I-IV. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2013). Manekji on the Sudre-Kusti. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2013). Metodologia en Ciência da Religião. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). From power to powerlessness: Zoroastrianism in Iranian history. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Religion: Begriff, Definitionen, Theorien. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Religionswissenschaft: Profil eines Universitätsfachs im deutschsprachigen Raum. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Zoroastrische Unterscheidungen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Iransk religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2011). Introduction: research methods in the study of religion\s. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Free-listing. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Structured observation. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Comparison. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Parsi-Priester über Sinn, Leistungen und Funktionsweise von Ritualen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Renaissancen: Vermittlungsformen des Paganen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Back and forth. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Interventionist practices and the promises of religion: On Martin Riesebrodt, Cultus und Heilsversprechen (2007). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). There is life in the old dog yet: an introduction to contemporary theories of religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Zoroastrism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Tourismus. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Western Europe. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Para-Zoroastrianisms: Memetic transmissions and appropriations. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Raffaele Pettazzoni and the History of Religions in Fascist Italy (1928-1938). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). Iran: Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2007). A Name for All and No One: Zoroaster as a Figure of Authorization and a Screen of Ascription. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective [Introduction]. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective (Concluding Remarks). (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Reflexivity. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Snoek, Jan; Kreinath, Jens (2006). Ritual Studies, Ritual Theory, Theorizing Rituals-An Introductory Essay. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Sammenligning. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Zarathus(h)tra-Zoroaster: Ost-westliche Spiegelungen von den Anfängen bis Nietzsche. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Ritualtheorien und Religionstheorien. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Patterns of Ritual Change among Parsi-Zoroastrians in Recent Times. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Monday-nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Sacred Texts and Canonicity: Iran. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Iran. Appendix: Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Theology: Iran. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Giara, Marzban; Karanjia, Ramiyar (2004). Manekji Limji Hataria on Iranian Zoroastrian Rituals: A Translation of Selected Passages from his Travel Report (1865). (external link)

Academic literature review

• Stausberg, Michael (2024). What Is Happening to Religious Studies? Six Narratives. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Aukland, Knut (2018). Introduction: On dragons and elephants: Religion in domestic and international tourism in China and India. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Bellah’s religion in human evolution: a post-review. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). The lure of empire. Review essay (on) Bruce Lincoln, Religion, Empire, and Torture: the case of Achaemenian Persia, Chicago/London, 2007. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe III: further developments after World War II. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (II): Institutional developments after World War II. (external link)

Database

• van der Haven, Alexander; Stausberg, Michael; Baffelli, Erica (2023). Religious Minorities Online. (external link)

Interview

• Sen, Moumita; Stausberg, Michael; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2022). Political deification in south Asia . (external link)

Academic monograph

• Stausberg, Michael (2020). Die Heilsbringer: Eine Globalgeschichte der Religionen im 20. Jahrhundert. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2011). Religion and Tourism: crossroads, destinations, and encounters. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Religion im modernen Tourismus. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2008). Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism: A Short Introduction. (external link)
• Kreinath, Jens; Snoek, Jan; Stausberg, Michael (2007). Theorizing Rituals. Vol. 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Die Religion Zarathushtras. Geschichte, Gegenwart, Rituale, Band 3. (external link)

Popular scientific chapter/article

• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Can I be spiritiual but not religious. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Where did the study of religion come from?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2017). Who was the first scholar of religion?. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Jeserich, Florian; Klenk, Moritz (2012). Arbeitshilfen. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2010). Iran. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Tandberg, Håkon Naasen; Stausberg, Michael (2017). Fires as Confidants. Personal Relationships with Holy Fires in present-day Parsi Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Aukland, Knut; Stausberg, Michael; Keul, Istvan et al. (2016). Tours, trade, and temples: Hindu pilgrimage in the age of global tourism . (external link)

Introduction

• Stausberg, Michael; Engler, Steven (2016). Introduction: Aims, Scope and Organization. (external link)

Short communication

• Stausberg, Michael (2014). Fractionizing or Dichotomizing? Commentary on Harvey Whitehouse and Jonathan A. Lanman, “The Ties That Bind Us Ritual, Fusion, and Identification”. (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Stausberg, Michael (2013). A proposito di un nuovo libro sullo zoroastrismo. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Die Zarathustrier im Iran. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2012). Zu jedem schönen Urlaub gehört ein heiliger Ort. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Kolstø, Janemil (2009). Religion og turisme ved Johanneskirken. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Det zoroastriske ildtemplet. (external link)

Encyclopedia article

• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Vorislamische iranische religiöse Literatur. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2009). Zoroaster. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Karanjia, Ramiyar P. (2008). Jamshedji Sorab Kukadaru. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Karanjia, Ramiyar P. (2008). JamaspAsa, Dastur Jamapsi Minocherji. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Zarathustra. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Socialization/Upbringing. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). ZOROASTER: AS PERCEIVED IN WESTERN EUROPE AFTER ANTIQUITY. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2006). Zoroastrian Rituals. (external link)
• Karanjia, Ramiyar P.; Stausberg, Michael (2006). Modi, Jivanji Jamshedji. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Reinigung. I. Religionswissenschaftlich. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Ritus/Ritual. I. Religionswissenschaftlich. 2. Ritualtheorien. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Rein und unrein. I. Religionswissenschaftlich. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2004). Persien, Perser. C. Religion. (external link)

Masters thesis

• Stausberg, Michael; Kolstø, Jan Emil (2007). Rethinking Yasukuni. From Secular Politics to Religious Sacrifice. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Sundsbø, Vibeke (2007). Congregations in an Urban Ecology. A Study of 14 Churches in Melbourne's Central Business District. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Larsen, Per-Arne (2007). Angst, død, religion: Terror Managment Theory som religionsteori. En kritisk diskusjon. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael; Årsheim, Helge (2007). "...når de religiøse aspektene synes å være dominerende". En systemteoretisk analyse av religionsbegrepet i norsk rett. (external link)

Popular scientific book

• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Zarathustra und seine Religion. (external link)
• Stausberg, Michael (2005). Zarathustra och zoroastrismen. (external link)

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