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Lea Schulte-Droesch first studied ethnology, psychology and public law in Heidelberg, which she later continued at the Free University of Berlin. As part of her doctorate at the Institute for Theology and Religious Studies in Groningen, she undertook field research with the Santal in East Singhum, Jharkhand. Here she investigated rituals for 14 months between 2011 and 2013. Through this focus she came to the topic "place" and analyzed concepts of land, environment and region by means of different ritual complexes.
After completing her doctorate in 2016, she began working on the topic
human-environment relationship in Germany. In this context she worked for two years in the social science research of the Black Forest National Park. She plans to continue to dedicate herself professionally to the interface between environmental protection and society in the future.
Her research interests include rituals, religion as practice, place, human-environment relations and cultural ecosystem services.
