Why are there difficulties in the coexistence of religions?

Lecture Series on the Integration of Religious Plurality from the Ancient World to the Present

Programme

26.10.2010
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Münster After the Peace of Westphalia – How well did the denominational groups in the Holy Roman Empire get along? (This lecture forms part of the “Dialoge zum Frieden” [dialogues on peace] series of the city of Münster.)

2.11.2010
Reinhard Achenbach, Münster
Between Moses and Zarathustra. On the social situation of the Jews in ancient Persian Empire

09.11.2010
Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Münster
Hindu-Buddhist relations in the past and present

16.11.2010
Michael Borgolte, Berlin
Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages

23.11.2010

Helene Basu, Münster

Religious plurality in Indian regional kingdoms (16th to 20th century): Hindu kings, Muslim saints and Jain ascetics
30.11.2010
Detlef Pollack, Münster The acceptance of religious plurality today. Selected European countries compared

07.12.2010
Hubert Seiwert, Leipzig
Religion and the State in Pre-Modern China

14.12.2010
Olaf Blaschke, Trier
Denominational coexistence and conflict during the time of the Kulturkampf

21.12.2010
Angelos Chaniotis, Oxford
Beyond the market of religions. Cult communities as “emotional communities” in the Roman east

04.01.2011
Etienne François, Berlin
Together within and despite segregation: Catholics and Protestants in the paritarian imperial cities (17th to 18th century)

11.01.2011
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Leipzig
Secularity and religious plurality: Approximating fault lines of the present

18.01.2011
Janbernd Oebbecke, Münster
Islamic religious education and the integration of Islam in Germany

25.01.2011
Navid Kermani, Frankfurt am Main
Germans and Muslims. On understanding and misunderstanding

01.02.2011
Regina Grundmann, Münster
The friendship between Mendelssohn and Lessing – an example for the cooperation of Jews and Christians in Germany’s educated middle-class?


08.02.2011
Rainer Forst, Frankfurt/Main
Tolerance and Integration. Learning the lessons of the past for the present

Winter semester 2010-2011
Tuesday, 6-8 p.m.
Lecture theatre F2 at Fürstenberghaus
Domplatz 20-22
48143 Münster