Birgit Meyer

thumb|Birgit Meyer Birgit Meyer (born 21 March 1960) is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. Quotes ...And echoing Tylor we can say that religion is a field of making knowledge. Both as a scholar in religious studies and anthropology I am very open and respectful towards pre- and non-academic modes of knowledge production. This humbleness and recognition of multiple epistemologies is close to my heart, and I find this much more compelling than pursuing an ontological line that focuses on different ways of being. I’m deeply interested in how people seek to know the world, all they do to gain knowledge, how they develop it and defend it, become sceptical, and think twice and again. And as I am not a positivist, I acknowledge that we never know the world “as such”, but always through signs, and narratives that get tied into each other, and that we try to understand and translate. "Interview with Dr. Birgit Meyer", Entangled Worlds, Univ. of Toronto (September 2021) External links Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from Germany Category:Women born in the 1960s