Márk Nemes is a historian, philosopher, and religious studies scholar. He received his PhD in Philosophy, specializing in the theory of religions, in 2025. His research interests include contemporary religiosity, various new religious movements, quasi- and para-religiosity, and other alternative frontiers of lived religiosities.
He served as Chair of the Philosophy Department of the Association of Hungarian PhD and DLA Students from 2019 to 2023 and is the editor-in-chief of their publications. He is a member of ISORECEA (International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association), SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore), EuARe (European Academy of Religion), EASR (European Association for the Study of Religions), and ISSR (International Society for Science and Religion). Since 2025, he has been a board member of MAKAT (Hungarian Society for Cultural Anthropology). He is one of the founders of CESAR (Central European Symposium for the Academic Study of Religion). He is also the founder and chief organizer of the Interdisciplinary Students’ Conference on Religious Studies, Hungary’s only yearly religious studies conference. Between 2020 and 2023, Nemes was a lecturer and thesis consultant at the University of Szeged’s Department of Religious Studies.
As an awardee of the Hungarian National Eötvös Scholarship, he served as a visiting researcher at CESNUR from 2023 to 2024. For the past ten years, he has focused on researching new, alternative, and emergent forms of religiosity in Hungary, Iceland, the United States, and, most recently, in Italy. Since 2025, he has been serving as the Deputy Director of CESNUR – Center for Studies on New Religions. Nemes also holds a full-time researcher position at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Research Institute for Art Theory and Methodology, where he studies the common intersections of art theory and religiosity, focusing on the artistic aspects of contemporary religiosity, aesthetic transcendence, and the impact of religious art.
