News 2020

16-12-2020

Lecture by historian Lora Wildenthal on belonging and gender in German colonialism

11-12-2020

Ancient historian Prof. Dr. Hans Beck has presented research results on the influence of localism in the globalized world of ancient Greece

04-12-2020

Award-winning dissertations

30-11-2020

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News Ausstellung Zeichen Der Zukunft — © Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg

Due to corona, the exhibition “Signs of the Future: Divination in East Asia and Europe", in which the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster is involved, has started digitally

02-12-2020

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Mitarbeiter Projekt Missbrauch Bistum M _nster 2 1 — © Uni MS - Peter Leßmann

Initial findings on abuse in the diocese of Münster

23-11-2020

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Initial results of a survey by the Cluster of Excellence on corona and faith

13-10-2020

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News Grabung Doliche Kirchenbau 2 1 — © Uni MS - Forschungsstelle Asia Minor

Archaeologists of the University of Münster led by ancient historian Prof. Engelbert Winter from the Cluster of Excellence have uncovered an early Christian basilica in south-eastern Turkey

23-11-2020

Historian Sarah Thieme was elected to the team of spokespersons of the Schwerter Working Group for Catholicism Research

24-11-2020

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Corona pandemic: wide-ranging research at the Cluster of Excellence on epidemics

17-11-2020

„Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies 2020“ for religious studies scholar Perry Schmidt-Leukel

Art historian Dr. Francesco Gusella on new directions in global art history

26-10-2020

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“Repercussions of colonial pasts still causing problems for populations today”

Scholar of religious studies Dr. Julian Strube deals with Western esoteric reception of Hinduism and its essential role in what is commonly labelled as Western esotericism

26-10-2020

First annual theme sheds light on the social challenges of “belonging and demarcation”

New research projects expand the range of themes at the Cluster of Excellence

13-10-2020

NRW graduate school “Religious Plurality” will in future examine regional religious diversity in comparison with different countries

28-09-2020

Latin work of Leonardus Lessius, important pioneer of European business ethics, available in German for the first time

The Latin work of an important pioneer of modern business ethics, the Dutch legal scholar and moral theologian Leonardus Lessius (1554-1623), is being made available in German for the first time. The dutch legal scholar and moral theologian Leonardus Lessius developed innovative legal and ethical principles, comments the publisher, legal historian Prof. Dr. Nils Jansen from the Cluster of Excellence. The first of ten volumes will be published by frommann-Holzboog Verlag next week.

Theologian Hans-Peter Großhans elected president of the European Academy of Religion

29-07-2020

WWU-Fellowship Programme “Women in Research” for Postdocs from Europe

24-07-2020

From a historical perspective, the conversion of religiously and politically charged buildings such as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is no new phenomenon

New Research Cloud "Localism and the Local" at the Cluster of Excellence

17-07-2020

Already 300 years ago: Historian reconstructs emergence in England of conspiracy theories on plague outbreak in Marseilles in 1720

01-07-2020

The future in the time of corona

Social anthropologist Dorothea Schulz contrasts the conception of futurity in Uganda and Mali during the corona crisis with tendencies in European public discourse.

03-06-2020

Historian Liliya Berezhnaya to present her research in Ukraine on bulwark myths

03-06-2020

Theory of Religious Diversity meets with research interest in China

29-05-2020

Latest newsletter of the Cluster of Excellence published

Head of Research Communication Viola van Melis on transfer during the coronavirus pandemic

Making research easy to understand – The Cluster of Excellence's transfer concept

19-05-2020

Historian and theologian Thomas Lentes has died

Research at the Cluster of Excellence in times of Coronavirus

08-05-2020

New Research Cloud to deal with epidemics in the past and present

23-04-2020

Ancient historian Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter on the excavation in Doliche in south-eastern Turkey

New flexible working groups at the Cluster: Research Clouds "Digital Humanities", "Memory and Forgetting" and "Social Forms of Religion"

03-03-2020

In the corona crisis, legal scholar Nils Jansen warns against leaving politics, courts and science to shape our basic normative orientation

Cancelled: Conferences and evening talks held by the Cluster of Excellence cancelled until the end of May