Kerstin Schier

Background

I graduated with a M.A. degree in Classical Indology and Religious Studies from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. The major part of my M.A. thesis was a translation of a mythological text about the Śaivite pilgrimage town Gokarna in Karnataka from Sanskrit to German.

Academic interests

• Hindu religious traditions
• Temple culture
• Indian mythology
• Sanskrit

Ongoing and planned research projects at IKOS

PhD research fellow within the Kanchipuram Research Project.
My doctoral thesis with the working title "rivalry and harmony: negotiating relations in myth and ritual" focusses on the annual temple festival of the Ekāmranātha temple in Kanchipuram.

"Kulturgeschichte", in: Indien, National Geographic, Hamburg, 2008, pp. 8–57.