18-05-2022 © Lena Giovanazzi© excSociologist of religion Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack: Dramatic secularization in the USA and in previous religious strongholds in Europe
12-04-2022 © WissenschaftskollegEvening colloquium Dogma: "Norm, Practice, Coincidence?" with historian of dogma Prof. Dr. Michael Seewald
06-04-2022 © excIntroduction to the Digital Humanities - Cluster of Excellence and Center for Digital Humanities lecture series
29-03-2022 Islamic theologian Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide talks in the University of Münster podcast on Islam in Germany
24-03-2022 © excDiscussion series “Tradition(s): interdisciplinary and transepochal” at the Cluster of Excellence
14-03-2022 © Lena GiovanazziSociologist Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack: Alliance of church and state in Russia fosters acceptance of Putin’s war
10-03-2022 “Church membership will have halved by 2060” – sociologist Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack in the University of Münster dossier “Demographic Change”
09-03-2022 © privatPsychologist Prof. Dr. Mitja Back: “The pandemic is having a psychological effect particularly on those on society’s fringes”
01-03-2022 © REUTERS / Russell CheyneReligious Dynamics Shape Society: Conference of the Cluster and the Research Group “Being Catholic”
01-03-2022 Acquisition of project led by church historian Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf on Jewish letters of petition to Pope Pius XII
24-02-2022 © maz© exc/Unsplash, Tobias RademacherPolitical scientist Doris Fuchs: Environmentalists driven by idealism 50 years after “Limits to Growth”
17-02-2022 © privatMedievalist Dr. Andrea Ghidoni from the University of Macerata is working at the Cluster of Excellence on “Poetics of lament”
04-02-2022 © Oxford University PressEnglish translation of legal historian Prof. Dr. Nils Jansen's foundational work on tort law
11-01-2022 Social ethicist Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha sees religious communities showing greater sensitivity for animal welfare
25-01-2022 © privat© privat/Mohr SiebeckRight-wing Christians exploit theology for their social order
18-01-2022 Classical scholar Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter in the WWU-Podcast about his excavations in south-eastern Turkey
11-01-2022 © excWebtalk with the Islamic theologian Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide and the sociologist Prof. Dr. Hans Joas
© Bloomsbury Publishing“Recent escalation of violence in Myanmar reveals complex struggles over identity”
10-12-2021 © excTradition and the avant-garde: Romance scholar Karin Westerwelle in the lecture series
15-11-2021 © excTradition and legitimation: Liturgical scholar Clemens Leonhard in the lecture series
08-11-2021 © Andreas Reeg/Deutsche AkademieSigmund Freud Prize of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung to church historian Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf
03-11-2021 Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities makes historian Patrick Sänger its first research professor in “Unity and Diversity in Law”
03-11-2021 © Tagungszentrum Katholische AkademieAdvanced training for journalists specializing in religion on “War and peace in the name of God?”
29-10-2021 Byzantine scholar Michael Grünbart is made a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in History in Munich
14-10-2021 © excTraditions in transition from antiquity to the present: Lecture series “Tradition(s)” will launch the second annual theme
22-10-2021 © privatPsychology professor Mitja Back involved in worldwide study on how individuals are dealing with corona
14-10-2021 © excSecond annual theme at the Cluster of Excellence to examine how traditions emerge and change
11-10-2021 © Dominik BonatzLecture series “Broadening the view: Archaeology globally” of the “Archaeology Diagonal” network
08-10-2021 © ULBThird day of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of Münster, with participation of the Cluster of Excellence
02-10-2021 © LWL-Medienzentrum für WestfalenHistorian Prof. Dr. Olaf Blaschke on the Catholic theologian and social reformer Franz Hitze
23-09-2021 © WWU - Sophie PieperLegal scholar Peter Oestmann on 70 years of the Federal Constitutional Court
17-09-2021 © Wikimedia commonsKiss of Judas, regicide, whistleblowing: Conference on the history of treason
03-09-2021 © Jüdisches Museum FrankfurtAdvanced training course for journalists specializing in religion continues with the topic “Tradition and Innovation. Faith and Lived Religiosity”
31-08-2021 Lectures on legal pluralism – Start of a lecture series of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Legal Unity and Pluralism"
25-08-2021 © Jens Niebaum, gemeinfrei, exc, public domainNew Dossier Chapter: God's will/ god's succour? Religious interpretations of epidemics
13-08-2021 © excJudaist Regina Grundmann in the podcast about the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith)
08-08-2020 Three positions for Postdoctoral Research Associates Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in to be filled
05-08-2021 © excPodcast series “Belonging or Excluded?“: Martin Herholz on the end of the German-Jewish press
23-07-2021 © privatTheologian Michael Seewald is to become a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
07-07-2021 © WWU - Peter LeßmannUniversity society awards prize to Romance Studies scholar Pia Doering
02-07-2021 © RePliVOpening of the graduate school "Regional Regulation of Religious Plurality in Comparison" on 8 July 2021
28-06-2021 © Bibliothèque nationale de FranceFake News in the Middle Ages - Conference beginning 1 July, and episode 8 of the research podcast
03-05-2021 © excReligious life in the Middle Ages – Judaist Katrin Kogman-Appel about the Amsterdam Mahsor in the podcast “Belonging or Excluded?”
11-06-2021 © excJewish scholar Lisa Bachmann on Jewish life in the North Sea resort of Norderney in the 19th and early 20th century in the research podcast
10-06-2021 © KSHG MünsterGerman scholar Christian Sieg on Perspectives from cultural studies on Conspiracy Narratives
09-06-2021 © excVideo of the lecture by Blumenberg Visiting Professor Marc Helbling on "Islamophobia in Western Europe: Fear of Muslims or of Fundamentalists?"
07-06-2021 © RothenburgMuseumJewish scholar Rainer Barzen on Jewish commemoration of the dead in the Middle Ages in the research podcast
10-05-2021 Ancient historian Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn awarded with honorary doctorate by Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
07-05-2021 © excMoral satire "The Ship of Fools" by Sebastian Brant – Research podcast with Germanist Bruno Quast
19-04-2021 © excCluster of Excellence’s new research podcast “Belonging or Excluded?” sheds light on 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany
16-04-2021 © excPanel "How much identity politics does our society need?" – Wolfgang Thierse, Mithu M. Sanyal and Andrea Geier in conversation with Mouhanad Khorchide and Detlef Pollack.
13-04-2021 © Hilla SüdhausLecture on Religion and Politics in Literature by Germanist Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
01-04-2021 © WWU - MünsterViewApproval for the Käte Hamburger-Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research under the leadership of the historian Ulrike Ludwig and the legal scholar Peter Oestmann
18-03-2021 © wikimedia/wikihase© wikimedia/wikihase/WWU“Mount Olympus: populated by gods, but devoid of humans” – Archaeologist Achim Lichtenberger presents first major scientific study of celebrated mountain in a century
02-02-2021 © Unsplash/Grant WhittyFirst episode of the “Religion and Politics” podcast – survey on corona and social cohesion
03-02-2021 © excAccording to cultural scientist Jan Assmann, the Internet fails to fulfil important functions in the cultural memory of societies.
02-02-2021 © markus-spiske/unsplashSurvey: People who feel disadvantaged feel threatened by migrants and are more likely than others to vote AfD – Cluster of Excellence investigates what drives societal cleavages
© excThe cultural scientist and Egyptologist Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”.
25-01-2021 © WWU - Sophie PieperPolitical scientist Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer in the WWU Podcast about the situation of the parties before the upcoming parliamentary election and Armin Laschet's possible candidacy for chancellor
25-01-2021 DFG long-term project on Schleiermacher's lectures „Christliche Sittenlehre“ of the protestant theologian Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha
19-01-2021 Münster School of Ancient Cultures founded with participation of ancient historian Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn
12-01-2021 © WWUJudaist Franziska Kleybolte in the WWU video series "What comes next" on her research on the transformation of synagogues into churches on the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages
08-01-2021 Cooperation group “Normative Challenges of the European Asylum System” with philosopher Dr. Matthias Hoesch starts
06-01-2021 DFG funds research unit “Being Catholic in the German Federal Republic” with historians Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf and Prof. Dr. Klaus Große Kracht