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Julian Strube (* 1985) is a German Religious Studies scholar.

Since 2021, he teaches as an assistant professor at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. His research interests include global historical perspectives on the relationship between religion and politics, and debates about the meaning of religion, science, and philosophy since the eighteenth century.

Career
As part of his Magister thesis, Strube dealt with the relationship between völkisch movements, National Socialism, neo-Nazism, and esotericism. This resulted in his first monograph on the fictional energy Vril and its reception since the nineteenth century, especially with regard to the so-called Black Sun. We received his Ph.D. in 2015 with astudy on the relationship Socialism, Catholicism, and Occultism in Nineteenth-Century France. This was followed by positions in the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" in Heidelberg and his own DFG project. In November 2020, he habilitated in religious studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 2020/2021, he replaced the Chair of Missiology, Ecumenism, and Religious Studies at the University of Hamburg. From November 2019 to March 2021 he was head of the project A3-23, Religious Social Reform in the Context of Unitarianism and the Brahmo Samaj: Exchange Processes between North America and Bengal at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster.

Publications (Selection)

 * Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity, Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-1976-2711-2
 * with Hans Martin Krämer Theosophy Across Boundaries, State University of New York Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4384-8042-8.
 * with Egil Asprem New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism, Brill, 2021. ISBN 978-90-04-44644-1.
 * Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi, De Gruyter 2016. ISBN 978-3-1104-7654-5.
 * Vril: Eine okkulte Urkraft in Theosophie und esoterischem Neonazismus, Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-7705-5515-4.

Weblinks

 * academia.edu with downloadable publications
 * Personal webpage at the University of Vienna