هينز شيفنجر
Assistant Professor
- Email: Heinz.Scheifinger@zu.ac.ae
- Telephone: +9712 5993272
- Address: Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, FF2-1-012
Introduction
After gaining my PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Subsequently, I held faculty positions at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, and Keimyung University, South Korea. I have also had visiting positions at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and at Asian University of Women, Bangladesh.
Qualifications:
2006: PhD in Sociology – University of Warwick, UK
1999: MA in Sociology – University of Essex, UK
1996: BA (First Class Honours) in Sociology – University of Reading, UK
Informal Interests
Chess
Research and Professional Activities
Research interests:
Sociology of Religion; Religion and Digital Media; Hinduism (especially contemporary Hinduism); Globalisation; Internet Studies; New Technology and Society; Social Media Use; Diasporas/Transnationalism;
Teaching Areas
2018 – ‘Critical Thinking’, third-year undergraduate course, Dept. of Social Sciences
2018 – ‘Comparative Intellectual Traditions’, third-year undergraduate course, Dept. of Social Sciences.
Scheifinger, H. (forthcoming 2018) ‘Online Hinduism’, in Brekke, T. (ed.), Modern Hinduism, Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Scheifinger, H. (2018) ‘The Significance of Non-Participatory Digital Religion: The Saiva Siddhanta Church and the Development of a Global Hinduism’, in Balaji, M. (ed.), Digital Hinduism: Dharma and Discourse in the Age of New Media, Lexington: Lanham, 3-23.