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Dr. Maik Arnold is currently senior researcher (postdoc) at the Center of Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, in Germany. In 2011, he has been a visiting fellow at the Jagiellonian University and the Goethe Institute in Cracow (Poland) as part of the “Scholar in Residence” program that is conducted by the Goethe Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen. He received his Ph.D. in social sciences at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2009; his dissertation involved a systematic investigation to the religious self of German Protestant missionaries in cultural psychological perspective. In 2009 and 2010 he has also been a Fellow of the ›Global Young Faculty‹, a program for young scholars by the Stiftung Mercator and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen.

From 2003 to 2010, he has been a research assistant at the Chair of Intercultural Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. In 2003, he received his Diploma in Business Administration and the Certificate of Intercultural Communication at the same university. From 2003 to 2006, he finished his studies in Protestant Theology at the Evangelical Church in Germany. In 1999 and 2000, he studied International Human Resource Management, Economics and Law at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, UK. During his studies, he gained practical experience in several occupational fields, e.g., international auditing, tax consulting (Istanbul, Turkey), and marketing (Warsaw, Poland).

In research and teaching, he focuses on cultural psychology of religion, missionary action and religious identity in intercultural contexts, religious diversity in the Metropolis Ruhr (Germany), culture, conflict and violence in the context of religion as well as theory, methodology, and methods of qualitative empirical research.

For further information please contact: Maik Arnold.

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