Axel Michaels

Axel Michaels ( born May 26, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German Indologist and scholar of religion.

From 1991 to 1996 Michael was Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bern. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Indology at the University of Heidelberg.

Michaels is Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre Ritual Dynamics at the University of Heidelberg and co-director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the University of Heidelberg.

In addition to the authorship of his own works Michaels editor or co-editor of a variety of fonts.

Works

• The art of simple living. A cultural history of asceticism ( = Beck series 1600). C. H. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51107-4.
• Hinduism. Past and present. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44103-3 ( In English: .. . Hinduism Past and present Translated by Barbara Harshav Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2004, ISBN 0-691-08952-3 ).
• As Publisher: Classics of Religious Studies. By Friedrich Schleiermacher to Mircea Eliade. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42813-4 (essays by renowned authors on key personalities of the compartment ).
• Travel the gods. The Nepalese Paśupatinātha Temple and its ritual context ( = Nepalica. Vol. 6). VGH - Science Publishing, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-88280-043-7.
• Ritual and Society in India. An essay. Verlag Neue Kritik, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8015-0209-0.
• Discovery in the Vedic sacred geometry. A contribution to the history of science ( = Old and new Indian studies. Vol. 20). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02978-8 ( same time: Hamburg, University, phil dissertation, 1978. ).