Anika Steppacher, graduate assistant in Prof. Streib’s research project on Longitudinal Study of Religious Development in Germany and U.S.A., has received the DGS award for outstanding theses 2020 for her Master thesis entitled “Von allen Wahrheiten die Beste” (The best of all Truths). In her thesis, she studied esotericism in its subjective functions as an all-encompassing worldview. She wrote her thesis with data from this research project. Anika Steppacher has been invited to publish the results of her study in the DGS journal SOZIOLOGIE.