I have published books on research methods in the study of religions (2011, 2021), the demise of religions (2021), global religious history in the 20th century (2020), Zoroastrianism (2002, 2004, 2005, 2015), magic (2012), religion and tourism (2011), theories of religion (2009), ritual theory (2005, 2006), and the figure of Zoroaster in early modern Europe (1998). 

Ongoing publication: Religious Minorities Online (degruyter.com) 

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Academic article

• Michael Stausberg (2026). Reappraising the Master Genre: Book Reviews between Epistemology, Disciplinary Formation, and Scholarly Practice. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2025). The “Great” Article: Some Reflections and Nine Examples. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Laura Feldt; Christian Bull et al. (2025). Religion as a Social Kind? Reflections on Stanley Stowers’s New Realist Theory and the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Die fünfte Geburt Zarathushtras. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Discrimination and (against/among/in/of) religious minorities. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Pooyan Tamimi Arab; Ammar Maleki (2023). Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Michael Stausberg; Erica Baffelli (2023). Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Ingvild S. Gilhus; Christian Bull et al. (2023). A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?: Reflections on Richard Miller's Why Study Religion?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2022). Auschwitz and the Meta-Topography of the Sacred. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2022). Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an "all-Round Historian of Religion". (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Religious Studies in Germany: Institutional Frameworks and Constraints. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). The sacred, the holy, the numinous – and religion: on the emergence and early history of a terminological constellation. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2015). The psychology of religion/spirituality and the study of religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2015). Bidrar religion til lykke - eller: Hvordan ble religionene lykkelige? En gjennomgang av empirisk forskning og en historisk kontekstualisering av hvordan lykke ble til et ledemotiv i nyere tids religionshistorie. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Fractionizing or Dichotomizing? Commentary on Harvey Whitehouse and Jonathan A. Lanman, “The Ties That Bind Us Ritual, Fusion, and Identification”. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Advocacy in the study of religion\s. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Anna Tessmann (2013). The appropriation of a religion: The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Textbooks in review: Introductions to the psychology of religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). What is it all about? Some reflections on Wouter Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). A new theory of religion? Introducing the review symposium on Manuel A. Vasquez: More Than Belief (2011). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion und die Semantik von ‚Iran’ in der zoroastrischen Religionsgeschichte. (external link)
• Steven Engler; Michael Stausberg (2011). Introductory essay. Crisis and creativity: opportunities and threats in the global study of religion\s. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). The Bologna process and the study of religion\s in (Western) Europe. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Vor und nach der middle passage: Varianten des Ritualtransfers in der afroamerikanischen Geschichte. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Istvan Keul (2010). Filmreife Epiphanien im dritten Raum: ein transreligiöser Kult in Mumbai. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). From 1799 to 2009: Religious Experience Reconsidered-background, argument, responses. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Distinctions, differentiations, ontology, and non-humans in theories of religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Prospects in theories of religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Hell in Zoroastrian history. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Exploring the Meso-levels of Religious Mappings: European religion in regional, urban, and local contexts. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (I): Prehistory and history until World War II. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). The Significance of the Kusti. A History of its Zoroastrian Interpretations. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Reflexive Ritualisationen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Approaches to the Study of 'Time' in the History of Religions. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Michael Stausberg (2025). Normen, Werte und Tugenden in der Religionswissenschaft. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Das Torhaus: Auschwitz und das Sakrale. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). On theories of religion: varieties, distinctions, questions. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Real religion from the person up: On Christian Smith, Religion (2017). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Religions in Bombay/Mumbai: a scenario. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Taxis as Public Micro-Spaces of Religion: Practices, Symbols, and Communication. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Comparison. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Surveys and questionnaires. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Free-listing. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2021). Methods, methodology and method in the study of religion/s. (external link)
• Stuart A. Wright; Michael Stausberg; Carole M. Cusack (2020). How Religions End: Terms and Types. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). The Demise of Religions: Or Do Religions End?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). Playing the Religion Card: The Creation and Dissolution of Rajneeshism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2019). Leaving Hinduism: deconversion as liberation. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Zur Unverwüstlichkeit des Heiligen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2016). Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2016). History. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Mark Q. Gardiner (2016). Definition. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Ramiyar P. Karanjia (2015). Rituals. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshah Vevaina (2015). Scholarship on Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2015). Zoroastrians in Modern Iran. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2015). Zarathustra: Post-Gathic Trajectories. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Religion and spirituality in tourism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Manekji on the Sudre-Kusti. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Bernd-Christian Otto (2013). Introductions to Parts I-IV. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Bernd-Christian Otto (2013). General introduction. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2013). Metodologia en Ciência da Religião. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). From power to powerlessness: Zoroastrianism in Iranian history. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Religion: Begriff, Definitionen, Theorien. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Religionswissenschaft: Profil eines Universitätsfachs im deutschsprachigen Raum. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Zoroastrische Unterscheidungen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Structured observation. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Free-listing. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Comparison. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2011). Introduction: research methods in the study of religion\s. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Iransk religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Back and forth. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). There is life in the old dog yet: an introduction to contemporary theories of religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Interventionist practices and the promises of religion: On Martin Riesebrodt, Cultus und Heilsversprechen (2007). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Parsi-Priester über Sinn, Leistungen und Funktionsweise von Ritualen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Renaissancen: Vermittlungsformen des Paganen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Tourismus. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Zoroastrism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Western Europe. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). A Name for All and No One: Zoroaster as a Figure of Authorization and a Screen of Ascription. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Raffaele Pettazzoni and the History of Religions in Fascist Italy (1928-1938). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Iran: Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Para-Zoroastrianisms: Memetic transmissions and appropriations. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Zarathus(h)tra-Zoroaster: Ost-westliche Spiegelungen von den Anfängen bis Nietzsche. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Sammenligning. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective [Introduction]. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Jan Snoek; Jens Kreinath (2006). Ritual Studies, Ritual Theory, Theorizing Rituals-An Introductory Essay. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Reflexivity. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). 'Ritual': A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective (Concluding Remarks). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Ritualtheorien und Religionstheorien. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Monday-nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Marzban Giara; Ramiyar Karanjia (2004). Manekji Limji Hataria on Iranian Zoroastrian Rituals: A Translation of Selected Passages from his Travel Report (1865). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Patterns of Ritual Change among Parsi-Zoroastrians in Recent Times. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Theology: Iran. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Sacred Texts and Canonicity: Iran. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Iran. Appendix: Zoroastrianism. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Michael Stausberg (2024). What Is Happening to Religious Studies? Six Narratives. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Knut Aukland (2018). Introduction: On dragons and elephants: Religion in domestic and international tourism in China and India. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Bellah’s religion in human evolution: a post-review. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). The lure of empire. Review essay (on) Bruce Lincoln, Religion, Empire, and Torture: the case of Achaemenian Persia, Chicago/London, 2007. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe III: further developments after World War II. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (II): Institutional developments after World War II. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Michael Stausberg (2020). Die Heilsbringer: Eine Globalgeschichte der Religionen im 20. Jahrhundert. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Religion and Tourism: crossroads, destinations, and encounters. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Religion im modernen Tourismus. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism: A Short Introduction. (external link)
• Jens Kreinath; Jan Snoek; Michael Stausberg (2007). Theorizing Rituals. Vol. 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Die Religion Zarathushtras. Geschichte, Gegenwart, Rituale, Band 3. (external link)

Book anthology

• Michael Stausberg; Mona Helen Farstad; Gina Dahl (2026). Religion i en norsk storby: Religionsbyen Bergen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Katharina Wilkens (2025). Religionswissenschaft : Aktuelle Annäherungen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). 21st Century Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Religions, Mumbai Style. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Stuart A. Wright (2020). The Demise of Religion How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshah Vevaina (2015). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Bernd-Christian Otto (2013). Defining Magic: a reader. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Religionswissenschaft. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2011). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Contemporary Theories of Religion: a critical companion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Jan Snoek; Jens Kreinath (2006). Theorizing Rituals. Vol. 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Zoroastrian Rituals in Context. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Olof Sundqvist; Anna Lydia Svalastog (2002). Riter och ritteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Michael Stausberg (2025). Writing yourself into the discipline. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2025). Saving the Race: Three Parsi Voices. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Discussing "The Study of Religion in Sweden". (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Theorizing the situation: an improvisation. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2024). Norms and values in the study of religion/s. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Wertfreiheit oder Wertmangel in der Religionswissenschaft?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Religionsmacher des 20. Jahrhunderts. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2022). Das Ende von Religionen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Lebens-Wandel: zwischen Erfahrungen und Entscheidungen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Von der Globalisierung zur Kosmisierung von Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). From religion to the religious. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). Die Heilsbringer. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). Basiswissen Islam 28 - Zucker, Milch und Feuer: wie die Parsis (Zarathushtrier) nach Indien kamen und was sie darüber erzählen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2019). Endangered religions?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Olof Sundqvist (2019). Comparison: from prejudice to practice. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2019). What is religion like?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2018). Night Walks to Siddhivinayak: pathways of devotion in Mumbai. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2018). Comsopolitanism and Polytropy. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2018). Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality at Religious Sites in Mumbai. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Heterogeneität und Kohärenz in der Religionswissenschaft. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Religion auf der Windschutzscheibe: Religion auf und in Mumbai-Taxis. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Contemporary Theories of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2016). Die Unverwüstlichkeit des Heiligen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2016). Religionskonstruktive Religionstheorien: Babasaheb Ambedkar und Mordechai Kaplan. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2016). Religion in Asian Megacities. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Zarathustra in Moscow: The Emergence of Zoroastrianism in Russia. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Is There Progress in Theories of Religion?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Religious Nonconformism in Evolutionary Perspective. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Religione e turismo. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Religion and Tourism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Tourism as Location for Religion in Contemporary Europe. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Where is the M in MTSR?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Das Ende des Rituals wäre das Ende der Menschheit. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Die Parsis und ihre Priester. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Tourism in Religion and Religion in Tourism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Zoroastrianism and the Mosaic Distinction. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Why religion is important to tourism - and why tourism matters to religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Der historische Zarathustra. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Becoming Jewish in India and Indian in Israel: Bene Israel trajectories. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Response to Wouter Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Roundtable discussion: Teaching and ”Mastering” the Study of Religions. European Religious Studies masters programs compared. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Om religiøsitetens og religionenes evolusjon: Evolusjonsteoretiske og religionshistoriske perspektiver. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Ist die Religionswissenschaft eine wissenschaftliche Disziplin?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Panel: In Religionswissenschaft einführen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Mørtel, mening, makt og mer. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). The Impact of the Bologna Process on the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Der Zoroastrismus als iranische Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Zoroastrische Unterscheidungen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Agenten, Grenzen, Heilsversprechen: Annäherungen an rezente Religionstheorien. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Zwei Hauptformen der Mobilität in der Europäischen Religionsgeschichte. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). The qualities of the good priest: Lay Zoroastrian perspectives. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Festivals: some theoretical observations. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Evolusjon og evolusjonsteorier i religionsvitenskap. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). The Changing Worlds of Iranian Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Musings on essentialism(s) and Zoroastrianism(s). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Achaemenian Festivals. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). The Experience of Fire among Parsi Priests. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Gode tanker, gode ord, gode handlinger. Etikk i zoroastrismen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Concluding reflections. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Zoroastrian Festivals. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). The Study of Zoroastrianism: past, present, future. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Tourismus, Religion und Ritual: Streifzüge durch ein neues Forschungsfeld. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). A Reinvention of Zoroastrianism in the Modern West: the Mazdasnan Movement. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Findes der en europæisk religionsvidenskab?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Religion og turisme: Introduktion til et nyt forskningsfelt. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Concluding comments. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Towards a Religious History of Bombay City. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Turisme-et forskningsprosjekt. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Renaissancen des Paganen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Panel �Religionswissenschaft(ler) in der Kritik�: Einleitende Bemerkungen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Probing a Polytheistic Reading of the Avestan Texts: From Taboo to Theory. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Transfer, Innovation und Identität. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). 50 Years of Zoroastrian Studies. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Professionalisation and De-professionalisation. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Zarathustras europäische Geschichte. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Håkon Naasen Tandberg; Michael Stausberg (2017). Fires as Confidants. Personal Relationships with Holy Fires in present-day Parsi Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Knut Aukland; Michael Stausberg; Istvan Keul et al. (2016). Tours, trade, and temples. Hindu pilgrimage in the age of global tourism. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Steven Engler; Michael Stausberg (2024). Religion in changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts. (external link)
• Kevin Whitesides; Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2022). Religion: reviewers 2019–2021. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Challenging the secular. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2020). Religion: reviewers 2017–2018. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2020). Religion at 50: pasts and futures. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2018). Peer review, reviewers, and review policy 2015-2016. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). The sacred and the holy – from around 1917 to today. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2016). Editorial: Peer-reviewers and selected review statistics, 2013–2014. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Big Gods in review: introducing Ara Norenzayan and his critics. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2013). Editorial: Textbooks in the study of religion\s: introducing a new feature series. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Editorial: In this issue–the centenary of Durkheim's Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2011). Editorial: RELIGION resituated. (external link)
• Steven Engler; Michael Stausberg (2010). Acknowledging peer review. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community’. Introduction. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2008). Editorial. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Michael Stausberg (2009). Zoroaster. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Vorislamische iranische religiöse Literatur. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Ramiyar P. Karanjia (2008). Jamshedji Sorab Kukadaru. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Ramiyar P. Karanjia (2008). JamaspAsa, Dastur Jamapsi Minocherji. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Zarathustra. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Zoroastrianism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Socialization/Upbringing. (external link)
• Ramiyar P. Karanjia; Michael Stausberg (2006). Modi, Jivanji Jamshedji. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Zoroastrian Rituals. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). ZOROASTER: AS PERCEIVED IN WESTERN EUROPE AFTER ANTIQUITY. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Persien, Perser. C. Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Rein und unrein. I. Religionswissenschaftlich. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Reinigung. I. Religionswissenschaftlich. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2004). Ritus/Ritual. I. Religionswissenschaftlich. 2. Ritualtheorien. (external link)

Introduction

• Michael Stausberg; Katharina Wilkens (2025). Religionswissenschaft: Warum, was, wer, wie. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler (2016). Introduction: Aims, Scope and Organization. (external link)

Journal review

• Michael Stausberg (2025). Review of The Study of Religion in Sweden: Past, Present and Future, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Göran Larsson. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2025). Anmeldelse Nicolas Assur Corfù: Die Bedeutung des Kranzes im spätantiken Orient. Zu Thronbesteigung, Kranzübergabe und Religionen im Sasanidenreich, Basel: Schwabe 2025. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Alexander van der Haven (2024). Book review: Religious Minorities at Risk, written by Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox, and Ariel Zellman. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Review of The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins with the assistance of Frederick B. Henry Jr. (2022). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2023). Review of Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions: A Study of the Development of Comparative Religion in the Early 20th Century by Annelies Lannoy. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2022). Book review: Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 1: Urban Centres, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat // Voices from Zoroastrian Iran. Vol. 2: Urban and Rural Centres – Yazd and Outlying Villages, written by Sarah Stewart in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2022). Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900, by Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander (eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Book review Thomas Tweed, Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2000. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2021). Book review: Manfred Hutter: Iranische Religionen. Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Bahāʾītum. De Gruyter Studium (Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2019). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, and Jesper Sørensen (eds.), Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz. (Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 13.) Leiden: Brill, 2018. 702 pp. ISBN 9789004385108 (hbk.). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). Review essay: Bruce Lincoln,Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison. London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xii + 335 pp. isbn9780226563916 (hbk.), 9780226564074 (pbk.). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2020). Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2019). Book review of Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Richard King. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2018). Book review of Comparison: A Critical Primer by Aaron W. Hughes. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Review of Bernd-Christian Otto, Jörg Rüpke, Susanne Rau (eds), History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past. Berlin/New York 2015.. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2016). Anmeldelse av Udo Tworuschka, Einführung in die Geschichte der Religionswissenschaft. Darmstadt 2015.. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2015). Review of Alberto Melloni (ed.), Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento. Bologna 2010.. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2015). Book review: Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Psychology of religion: autobiographical accounts. Edited by Jacob A. Belzen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2014). Anmeldelse av Manfred Bauschulte, Straßenbahnhaltestellen der Aufklärung. Studien zur Religionsforschung 1945–1989. Marburg 2012. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Gods and demons, priests and scholars: critical explorations in the history of religions. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Anmeldelse av William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, The Sacred is Profane: The political nature of “religion”. Oxford, New York 2013. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2013). Anmeldelse Bruce Lincoln, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions. Chicago, London, 2012. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Pascal Boyer: The Fracture of an Illusion: science and the dissolution of religion. Frankfurt Templeton lectures 2008 (= Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft, Bd. 20.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010, 112 S. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Review Alex Norman: Spiritual Tourism: travel and religious practice in Western society. London, New York 2011. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2011). Charled Guittard (ed.). Le monothéisme. Diversité, exclusivisme ou dialogue? Paris, 2010. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Rainer Flasche, Religionswissenschaft Treiben: Versuch einer Grundlegung der Religionswissenschaft, Berlin 2008. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Anmeldelse Jörg Rüpke: Historische Religionswissenschaft, Stutggart 2007. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Historic religious sciences. An introduction. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2009). Anmeldelse Peter Antes: Grunriss der Religionsgeschichte, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2006. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Anmeldelse Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys, Dallen Timothy, Daniel H. Olsen (eds), London, 2006. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Theorising religion. Classical and contemporary debates. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Einar Thomassen; Clemens Cavallin et al. (2008). Anmeldelse Arne Bugge Amundsen (red.), Norges religionshistorie, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2005. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2008). Anmeldelse Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates, James A. Beckford, John Walliss (eds), Aldershot, Burlington 2006. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Review: James L. Cox, A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences, and Subsequent Debates , T and T International, London, New York (2006). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Anmeldelse "Wörterbuch der Religionen, Crhistoph Auffarth, Hans Kippenberg, Axel Michaels (eds), Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlagsanstalt 2006". (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Religious theory compendium. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2007). Anmeldelse Kompendium Religionstheorie, Volker Drehsen, Wilhelm Gräb, Birgit Weyel (eds), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Review: Éric Phalippou, Aux sources de Shéhérazade. Contes et coutumes des femmes zoroastriennes. Avec 191 photographies en hors-texte de l'auteur et de Martine Phalippou, Leuven 2003 (The sources of Sheherazade: stories and traditions of zoroastrian women, with 191 photographs by the author and Martine Phalippou). (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Review eppe Sinding Jensen, The Study of Religion in a new Key. Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion, Århus 2003. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Review Religionsvitenskapens komparative utfordring, Joel Haviv, Anders Lisdorf, Peter Weiss Poulsen (eds), København 2005. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Review: New Approaches to the Study of Religion, 2 vols, Peter Antes, Armin Geertz, Randi W. Warne (eds), Berlin, New York 2004. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). The Zoroastrian diaspora. Religion and migration. The Ratanbai Katrak lectures, the Oriental Faculty. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2006). Review John R. Hinnells, The Zoroastrian Diaspora. Religion and Migration. The Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, the Oriental Faculty, Oxford 1985, Oxford 2005. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Review: Religion im kulturellen Diskurs / Religion in Cultural Discourse. Festschrift für Hans G. Kippenberg zu seinem 65. Geburtstag / Essays in Honor of Hans G. Kippenberg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Brigitte Luchesi and Kocku von Stuckrad (eds), Berlin, New York 2004. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Book review: "Themes and Problems of the History of Religions in Contemporary Europe", ed. by Giulia Sfameni Gasparri, Cosenza 2002. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Book Review: Handbuch Religionswissenschaft. Religionen und ihre zentralen Themen, Johannes J. Figl (ed.), Innsbruck, Wien, Göttingen 2003. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Book review: D. Jason Slone, Theological Incorrectness. Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't. Oxford, 2004. (external link)

Lecture

• Michael Stausberg (2013). A proposito di un nuovo libro sullo zoroastrismo. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Zu jedem schönen Urlaub gehört ein heiliger Ort. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2012). Die Zarathustrier im Iran. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Janemil Kolstø (2009). Religion og turisme ved Johanneskirken. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Det zoroastriske ildtemplet. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (25). A theory of religion. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Michael Stausberg; Helge Årsheim (2007). "...når de religiøse aspektene synes å være dominerende". En systemteoretisk analyse av religionsbegrepet i norsk rett. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Vibeke Sundsbø (2007). Congregations in an Urban Ecology A Study of 14 Churches in Melbourne’s Central Business District. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Per-Arne Larsen (2007). Angst, død, religion: Terror Managment Theory som religionsteori. En kritisk diskusjon. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Jan Emil Kolstø (2007). Rethinking Yasukuni. From Secular Politics to Religious Sacrifice. (external link)

Media interview

• Moumita Sen; Michael Stausberg; Kenneth Bo Nielsen (2022). Political deification in south Asia. (external link)

Popular science book

• Michael Stausberg (2005). Zarathustra und seine Religion. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2005). Zarathustra och zoroastrismen. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Michael Stausberg (2017). Who was the first scholar of religion?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Where did the study of religion come from?. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2017). Can I be spiritiual but not religious. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Florian Jeserich; Moritz Klenk (2012). Arbeitshilfen. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg (2010). Iran. (external link)

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