Research focus “Religion and Politics” of the Faculty of History & Philosophy

Visual Stereotyping of Religious Groups in the Colonial Philippines (Subproject A3-39 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2023)

The role of social identities in interreligious arrangements comparative perspectives on and from Sub-Saharan Africa (Subproject B3-48 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)

The “newly baptized” in the Tsarist empire of the 18th and early 19th century (Subproject B3-43 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)

Ephesus and its cult spaces projections of political and religious practice (Subproject B3-41 of EXC 20260 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)

Articulations of the ‘political’ in contemporary postcolonial contexts of North and Sub-Saharan Africa (Subproject A3-34 of EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)

ecularism as a (Post-)Colonial Challenge? Religion and Republicanism in Marseille, 1946–1989 (Subproject A3-30 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2021)

Fortune-telling and politics in the early modern period (Subproject C3-22 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2020)

Demons medialities between literature and art, religion and politics (Subproject of the EXC 2060 Religion und Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

Testing and contesting religious pluralism in Uganda (Subproject B3-20 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

Material Mediators Medieval Material Culture at the Crossroads of Sacred and Secular Connotations (Subproject A3-8 of the EXC 2060 Religion und Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

Tradition and innovation of Graeco-Phoenician myths and cults in Roman Provincial Coinage (Subproject A3-3 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

Sacrality and the culture of piety in architectural and pictorial works of the early Habsburgs (Subproject A3-18 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

Ulster, Babel and Troy. Political and Religious Dynamics and Cultural Hybridization in Medieval Ireland (Subproject A3-15 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

Visual concepts of sacrality in dynastic Europe (17th and 18th century) (Subproject A3-14 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

“Euphrates, Protective Shield?” – Religious Diversity and Cultural Identity in the Roman Middle East Between Tradition and Construction (Subproject A3-13 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)

„Religion und Politik. Dynamiken von Tradition und Innovation“ (Exzellenzcluster, gefördert seit 2007).

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