Dr. Monika Hirmer

Lehrstuhl für Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie

When the ‘Esoteric’ Strikes Back: Revising the Field of Tantric Studies (2025) Hirmer M Journal article Editorial: Introducing a New, Radically Inclusive, Decolonial Knowledge Landscape (2024) Hirmer M Journal article Vernacular Cultures of South Asia (2024) Hirmer M Edited Volume Let Us Now Invoke the Three Celestial Lights of Fire, Sun and Moon into Ourselves’: Magic or Everyday Practice? A Critique of Magic for an Emic Approach to Śrīvidyā (2023) Hirmer M Book chapter / Article in edited volumes ‘The Role of Language in Diversifying Knowledge Production: Reflecting on the Experience of Decolonial Subversions as a Multilingual Publishing Platform’ (2023) Hirmer M Journal article ‘Let us now invoke the three celestial lights of Fire, Sun and Moon into ourselves’ (2022) Hirmer M Book chapter / Article in edited volumes The Self as Combination of Deities and Yantras: Divinisation Rituals among Contemporary Śrīvidyā Practitioners in India (2022) Hirmer M Journal article ‘A Manifesto for Decolonial Subversions’ (2022) Hirmer M Journal article ‘Devī Needs those Rituals!’ Ontological Considerations on Ritual Transformations in a Contemporary South Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition (2020) Hirmer M Journal article ‘Reflections on Salient Features in Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Approach to Cultural Analysis’ (2019) Hirmer M Journal article