Stef Aupers
Stef Aupers works as a cultural sociologist and full professor Media Culture at Leuven University, Faculty Social Sciences, and is a member of the Media Culture & Policy Lab at the Department of Communication Sciences. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals on the mediatization of religion and spirituality, AI culture, fantasy video games, and online conspiracy culture. His most recent book, authored with Dick Houtman and Galen Watts, is New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity (2025, Cambridge University Press).
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