Annelies Lannoy

Annelies Lannoy is assistant professor in critical religious studies and comparative philosophy at Ghent University (since September 2025). She specializes in the history of the academic study of religion and in early twentieth century French philosophy of religion, with a particular interest in how scholars negotiated the boundaries between science, religion, and philosophy against the broader cultural and ideological upheavals of their time. Much of her research draws on scientific correspondence as a primary source, using it as a unique window into the historical, religious, and political contexts of knowledge production. From 2022 to 2025 she worked at the University of Lausanne on a Swiss National Science Foundation project on the philosophy of religion of Alfred Loisy in relation to Henri Bergson and William James. Her recent publications include The Many Lives of Jesus. Scholarship, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Imagination (Brepols, 2024, edited volume with Cristiana Facchini) and Prophétiser la Religion de l'humanité. La philosophie "post-moderniste" d'Alfred Loisy (2025, edited thematic issue of the Revue de théologie et de philosophie with Frédéric Amsler).