From 7 to 8 November 2024, participants from all over the world came together for the ‘Translating Colonialism conference’ at Westminster College, University of Cambridge.
The conference was the major event for the second year of the Global Bible project, and has been over a year in the planning and thinking.
Papers were organised into panels which corresponded roughly to geographical and chronological themes, though the range and diversity of topics and approaches was a key feature of the conference. Continue reading...
The DFG-funded GloBil project organised a workshop in cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, on Tuesday, 2 July 2024. The workshop took place at the IDL Amonoo-Neizer Conference Centre and KNUST and was organised by Prof. J. E. T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor (Department of Religious Studies, KNUST), Dr. Michael Wandusim (CRM University of Münster) and PD Dr. Felicity Jensz (University of Münster).
The results of the 6th SME will be examined from a systematic-theological perspective by PD Dr Martin Fritz (EZW Berlin) and from a practical-theological perspective by Prof Dr Isolde Karle (RU Bochum).
If you are interested, you can find more information here...
We would like to invite you to the event "All Holy Years? Social and Political Transformations of the Papacy in the Modern Age" by Prof. Dr. Mariano Barbato. The event will take place on 20 June 2024, 6 pm c.t., in room KTh I, Johannisstr. 8-10.
in cooperation with The Center of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research and The Seminary for Reformed Theology
On the 31st of January 2024, at 18:00, CRM is organizing a book launch for the new publication "Gottes Werk und Fleisches Lust" by Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer in cooperation with the Center for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research and the Seminar for Reformed Theology at the University of Münster.
On May 3, 2023, at 3 p.m., the launch event of the CRM/DFG project “Global Bible: British and German Biblical Societies Translating Colonialism, 1800-1914” will take place. Read more …
Project presentation by Dr. Michael Brunner: Monday, December 5, 2022 · 16:15 - 17:45 p.m. · Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20-22, room F 041
Dr. Michael Brunner, Research Associate in the Office of the Center for Religion and Modernity, will present his current research to CRM members and staff.
November 9, 2022 | Room JO 101 | Johannisstraße 1, 48143 Münster
Presentation of the research results from the project "Protestant Theologians as Parliamentarians".
A book presentation of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" with Dr. Johann Hinrich Claussen, Cultural Commissioner of the Council of the EKD, and other guests.
Registration for digital participation until 8 November 2022 with Martina Forstmann (forstma@uni-muenster.de).
In June, more than 30 researchers from nine countries met in the premises of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster. Together they discussed interim results of the research project on the transmission of religion in families over the course of generations, which was carried out in Germany, Finland, Italy, Canada and Hungary. more...
On May 2, 2022, the Center for Religion and Modernity (CRM) held a digital lecture and discussion event on the subject of "Sexualized violence in churches". Prof. Dr. Thomas Großbölting and Prof. Dr. Klaus Große Kracht, who investigated the cases of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Münster, informed the members of the CRM in compact form about their approach and the structural results of their study. Afterwards, methodical questions in particular were lively discussed. more...
‘Die Dynamik des Religiösen in Prozessen des Politischen’ [Engl. ‘The dynamics of religion in processes of politics’]
will take place in Montabaur. The conference is organized jointly by the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’, University of Münster, and the DFG Research Unit ‘Being Catholic in the German Federal Republic. Semantics, Practices, and Emotions in Western Germany’s Society 1965–1989/90’. The conference features numerous members of the Center for Religion and Modernity who will present introductory statements and participate in panel discussions. more...
Before: The Center for Religion and Modernity invites everyone interested to the lecture of Prof. Dr. Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati on „Religion in der (post)pandemischen Zeit. Eine Bestandsaufnahme“ [„Religion in the (post)pandemic age. An evaluation“], Monday, December 6, 2021, at 6.15 pm. Prof. Dr. Pezzoli-Olgiati is Professor for the Study and the History of Religion at the University of Munich (LMU). In her lecture she will examine what constitutes „religion“ and „religious communities“ in a (post)pandemic age, how researchers should approach the issue, and what future societal transformations the pandemic might bring.
