Academic staff at the Department of Religions and Philosophies

Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.

Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations

Modern Zoroastrianism; Parsi studies; Parsi Gujarati literature; Zoroastrian hermeneutics; colonial South Asia; the Persianate world; relational ontologies; esotericism; ritual studies; death

Jaina Studies; South Asian History and Culture; Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.

Post-Kantian Philosophy - particularly Fichte and Hegel -; critical social theories - particularly the Frankfurt School and decoloniality; critical social epistemologies; metaphysics; American pragmatism.

Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.

Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman times; rabbinic literature; social history of Jews in late antiquity; American Jewish history and literature, Jewish identity, gender studies

Professor Hintze takes an interest in all aspects of Zoroastrianism, the religion of pre-Islamic Iran.

Comparative philosophy, African philosophy (esp. ethics, ontology and epistemology), African philosophy of disability, philosophy of alterity, philosophy of the body, African feminist philosophy, philosophy of music, postcolonial and decolonial philosophy.

History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit. 

Medieval Arabic Intellectual History; medieval Arabic philosophy; medieval Islamic theology, especially kalam; ethical theory; the Islamic manuscript tradition.