An insight into the institutions that the Campus of Theology and Religious Studies will bring together from 2027 will be provided by the University of Münster at the North Rhein-Westphalia Day from 28 to 30 August. These include Protestant, Catholic and Islamic theology, religious studies, Jewish studies, a Cluster of Excellence, and other institutions engaged in research on religion. The multimedia presentation featuring a quiz will showcase the diversity of degree programmes and findings from interdisciplinary research on religion: from ancient shrines and religious parodies to the future of religious education in schools and online spiritual communities.  Read more

With its principle of “Sola Scriptura” (Scripture alone), the Reformation movement of the 16th century made a radical claim: the Bible should be the sole and unambiguous source of what is authoritative in Christianity. But does this claim actually hold water? How clear is the Bible? Historian Volker Leppin from Yale University addressed this question and the Reformation conflicts that arose out of it on 22 June at the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”. Read more

Alfred Bodenheimer, Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel and professor of Jewish literary and religious history, is the 2026 Hans Blumenberg Professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” in Münster. On 16 June 2026, he spoke at the Cluster on how historical and, in part, biblical events or models of behaviour are used to justify Jewish actions today. The evening lecture was titled “Forward into the Past: Contemporary Jewish Self-Definitions in the Grip of Historical Analogies”.Read more