Birgit Meyer (born 21 March 1960) is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University.

Career

Meyer was born on 21 March 1960 in

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, Germany. She studied comparative religion, pedagogy, and cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen and the University of Amsterdam. She earned her

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at the latter university in 1995 under doctoral advisors J. Fabian and H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen, with a thesis titled: ''Translating the Devil. An African Appropriation of Pietist Protestantism. The Case of the Peki Ewe, 1847–1992''. She was appointed as professor of religious studies at Utrecht University in 2011. She previously spent over 20 years living in Ghana studying Pentecostalism and religious change. Meyer has been a member of the

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since 2007. In April 2015 Meyer won the Academy Professors Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a 1 million euro grant. In 2015 she was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.

References

External links

Profile at Utrecht University

Research Website ''Religious Matters''
1960 births Living people Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Emden Religious studies scholars Spinoza Prize winners University of Amsterdam alumni University of Bremen alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University {{reli-studies-bio-stub