News Archive 2009
Guest Lecture: Redefining Cult at Dura-Europos
[2009-12-23] Dr. Ted Kaizer, Senior Lecturer in Roman Culture and History at the Durham University, helds a guest lecture on Monday, 4 January, in Münster. more …
Cluster of excellence has new board
[2009-11-05] Prof. Dr. Gerd Althoff (66), medievalist historian of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), was re-appointed speaker of the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics”. more …
Transformation by Integration
[2009-09-18] A growing number of people experience their own spiritual lives as being inspired by more than one religious tradition. Multi-religious identity formation and double-belonging are obvious signs of a process of transformation as a result inter-faith encounter. more …
Rituals of Investiture
[2009-09-15] Rituals of investiture will be in the focus of the next lecture series of the cluster of excellence. In thirteen lectures, the academics will illuminate how people from the Middle Ages until today were inaugurated and what stagings these inaugurations complied with. more …
Transnational Networks of Experts and Organizations
[2009-08-25] Christian Müller speaks as a guest at the conference "Transnational Networks of Experts and Organizations", held at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. more …
Islam and Modernity
[2009-07-08] Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan spoke as a guest at the cluster of excellence’s lecture cycle. more …
Guest Lecture: Prof. David Levene
[2009-06-18] David Levene, Professor of Classics at the New York University, visits Münster this month. He helds a guest lecture on Monday, 29 June, and invites to a discussion on Friday, 26 June. more …
"Reconstructing religious life from archaeological data"
[2009-06-09] Colloquium with Dr. Lucinda Dirven (University of Amsterdam: „Reconstructing religious life from archaeological data. The case of Hatra, the city of the sun god”. more …
Conference: The Spirit and the Flesh
[2009-05-26] Understanding the political requires taking spiritual and religious influences into account. Likewise, religious beliefs can have strong political significance. By perceiving race, gender, and sexuality as politically powerful categories, and by employing them as analytical tools, this international conference seeks to explore the interdependencies of the spiritual and the secular – of the spirit and the flesh. more …
Course of lectures of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" during the summer term 2009
[2009-04-01] The course of lectures "Modernity. Religion. Politics. Concepts, findings and perspectives" starts on Tuesday, 21 April, with a contribution by Christof Dipper (Technical University of Darmstadt). more …
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