"Religion and Politics" - Cluster of Excellence at the WWU Münster
The “Return of the Gods” in an apparently secularised world is the focus of the "Religion und Politics" cluster of excellence at the University of Münster: a new visibility in the mass media of religious phenomena ranging from personal, esoteric religions to fundamentalist violence. A variety of fields of research are set up in the cluster, bridging disciplines and epochs. Historians, theologians, lawyers, social scientists and scholars of literature are working together on the basis of the interdisciplinary experiences made at the University of Münster with new approaches to cultural studies.
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Custom, Command, Law
[21.01.2010] The summer semester 2010 lecture series of the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics” focuses on the formation of norms in the past and in the present. The lectures draw a chronological line from the Ten Commandments to modern constitutional law. full story
Conference: Sacralised Politics and Political Religion
[29.01.2010] In its effort to define its own final legitimisations, politics is to a large extent bound to use religiously prefigured political languages. This is the line of argument furthered by the historians who convene a workshop within the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” in mid-February 2010. full story
Spirits in Politics
[11.01.2010] While the humanities and social sciences view the ‘return of the Gods’ as recent social phenomenon in western societies, the recognition of an enduring prevalence of religion in the public sphere has been central in the anthropological discipline. full story
