All Stories

  1. Material Metaphors: The Body of Religious Texts and Their Embodied Users

    Article • Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture, August 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  2. The Shift Toward Subjectivization—How a Formerly Hierarchical Religious Group Changed Over Time

    Article • Journal of Religion in Europe, January 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  3. Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala

    Article • May 2024, De Gruyter

    Fouad Gehad Marei, Dr. Katja Rakow

  4. The Production and Performance of Multisensory Worship Services

    Article • March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  5. From Objects to Larger Material Structures / From Belief to Practices

    Article • Material Religion, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  6. Introduction

    Article • Material Religion, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  7. Books in Religious Studies

    Article • July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  8. Megachurches in den USA und Singapur in transkultureller Perspektive

    Article • August 2022, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  9. Editorial Note

    Article • Material Religion, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  10. Charismatic healers

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  11. The Material Dimension of the Bible from Print to Digital Text

    Article • December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  12. Of Bogeymen and The Promises of The Past or How to Construct a Uniform Identity

    Article • NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, July 2020, Amsterdam University Press

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  13. The Light of the World: Mediating Divine Presence through Light and Sound in a Contemporary Megachurch

    Article • Material Religion, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  14. Negotiating Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism

    Article • PentecoStudies, June 2019, Equinox Publishing

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  15. The Transcultural Dynamics of Naming

    Article • PentecoStudies, June 2019, Equinox Publishing

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  16. Christmas on Orchard Road in Singapore: Celebrating the Gift of Jesus Christ between Gucci and Tiffany

    Article • June 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  17. Religious Branding and the Quest to Meet Consumer Needs

    Article • January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  18. Therapeutic Culture and Religion in America

    Article • Religion Compass, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  19. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography, by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2011, x + 173pp. ISBN 978 0 691 13435 2, US$19.95 (cloth), ISBN 978 1 400 83804 2, US$19.95 (ebook)

    Article • Religion, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  20. Kālacakra in Transition: From the Apocalypse to the Promotion of World Peace

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr. Katja Rakow

  21. Spatialising Urban Religious Aspirations in Singapore: New Creation Church and the Building of The Star

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr. Katja Rakow