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Persecution for God’s Sake
[2013-04-03] The new public lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMF) will deal with the persecution of heretics. more …

Up to five PhD positions available in the Graduate School
[2013-04-02] An exciting opportunity exists for potential PhD students to fill up to five positions by October 1, 2013 in the Graduate School within the interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence for “Religion and Politics”. more …

Persecution for God’s Sake
[2013-03-11] The new public lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMF) will deal with the persecution of heretics. more …

Two Leibniz Awards for Münster
[2012-12-10] Double success in the Humanities and the Natural Sciences: not just one, but two of the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Awards are going to Münster University (WWU) for 2013. more …

Criminalizing male circumcision?
[2012-10-15] Bijan Fateh-Moghadam, a legal expert in the cross-section of criminal law, medicine and religion, comments on the Cologne Case on male circumcision and its likely political consequences in a Case Note for the German Law Journal. more …

“Religious policy favours churches over Islam”
[2012-09-26] The public lecture series on “Religious Plurality. A challenge for politics, religion and society” organised by the Cluster of Excellence and the new “Centre for Religion and the Modern Age” (CRM) will start on 9 October. more …

Religious Plurality
[2012-08-27] “Religious plurality” takes centre stage in the next lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” and the Centre of Religion and the Modern Age. The series is open to the public. more …

Another Five Years for the Cluster of Excellence
[2012-06-15] The joint commission of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the German Council of Science and Humanities and the Federal and State Ministers of Science approved the renewal proposal of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” in Bonn today. more …

Natural History and the Arts
[2012-05-15] Natural History changed in a fundamental way around 1550. Knowledge of the European flora and fauna grew exponentially. New research methods, models of description, and classification systems were developed. more …

Religion, Law, and Politics
[2012-03-27] “Religion, law and politics” takes centre stage in the next lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”. The series is open to the public. Lectures will be held on Tuesdays at lecture theatre F2 of the Fürstenberghaus. more …
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