Sakralität im Wandel

Beate Loeffler is a senior lecturer at TU Dortmund's Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture. Following her studies in architecture, art history, and history, she completed her doctorate on Christian church architecture in modern Japan. Among other things, her research deals with architectural cultural transfer in a global context, the role of religious spaces in modern societies, and knowledge transfer in architecture. Dunja Sharbat Dar is a research associate at the Centre for Religious Studies (CERES) at the Ruhr-Universitat in Bochum. Following her combined undergraduate degree in the study of religion and Japanese studies, she is currently doing her PhD on modern Christian church spaces and religious practices in Japan. Her main research areas are religion and space, Japanese religion(s), popular culture, modern religion, and social research methods and theories.