News and Press Releases

18-05-2022

Sociologist of religion Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack: Dramatic secularization in the USA and in previous religious strongholds in Europe

27-04-2022

Arabist Sarah Stroumsa new Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the Cluster

12-04-2022

Evening colloquium Dogma: "Norm, Practice, Coincidence?" with historian of dogma Prof. Dr. Michael Seewald

06-04-2022

Introduction to the Digital Humanities - Cluster of Excellence and Center for Digital Humanities lecture series

01-04-2022

Public lecture series “Russia’s War on Ukraine”

29-03-2022

Islamic theologian Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide talks in the University of Münster podcast on Islam in Germany

24-03-2022

Discussion series “Tradition(s): interdisciplinary and transepochal” at the Cluster of Excellence

18-03-2022

Islamic theologian Prof.Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide at symposium hosted by Federal President

14-03-2022

Sociologist 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

Psychologist Prof. Dr. Mitja Back: “The pandemic is having a psychological effect particularly on those on society’s fringes”

01-03-2022

Religious 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

Political scientist Doris Fuchs: Environmentalists driven by idealism 50 years after “Limits to Growth”

17-02-2022

Medievalist Dr. Andrea Ghidoni from the University of Macerata is working at the Cluster of Excellence on “Poetics of lament”

04-02-2022

English 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

31-01-2022

New newsletter published: information on annual themes, research findings, awards

25-01-2022

Right-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

17-01-2022

New research projects expand the Cluster of Excellence’s spectrum of themes

11-01-2022

Webtalk with the Islamic theologian Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide and the sociologist Prof. Dr. Hans Joas

“Looking into the future when it’s hard to bear the present”

“Recent escalation of violence in Myanmar reveals complex struggles over identity”

10-12-2021

Tradition and the avant-garde: Romance scholar Karin Westerwelle in the lecture series

03-12-2021

Tradition and appropriation: Egyptologist Angelika Lohwasser in the lecture series

26-11-2021

Tradition and transmission: Sociologist Christel Gärtner in the lecture series

19-11-2021

Tradition and innovation: Arabic scholar Syrinx von Hees in the lecture series

18-11-2021

Jubiläumsprogramm zu 375 Jahre Westfälischer Frieden im Jahr 2023

15-11-2021

Tradition and legitimation: Liturgical scholar Clemens Leonhard in the lecture series

08-11-2021

Sigmund Freud Prize of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung to church historian Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf

08-11-2021

Tradition and cognition: Philosopher Oliver R. Scholz in the lecture series

04-11-2021

Marga Bührig Foundation honours the research of Islamic theologian Dina El Omari

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

Advanced training for journalists specializing in religion on “War and peace in the name of God?”

01-11-2021

Tradition and law: Legal historian Nils Jansen in the lecture series

29-10-2021

Byzantine scholar Michael Grünbart is made a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in History in Munich

29-10-2021

Archaeologists find monumental ancient temple

28-10-2021

Lecture series on "Ashkenas" at the Institute for Jewish Studies

14-10-2021

Traditions in transition from antiquity to the present: Lecture series “Tradition(s)” will launch the second annual theme

Second annual theme at the Cluster of Excellence on traditions

22-10-2021

Psychology professor Mitja Back involved in worldwide study on how individuals are dealing with corona

22-10-2021

Conference on practices of caring for the dead from antiquity to the present day

14-10-2021

Lecture series “Tradition(s)” will launch the second annual theme

14-10-2021

Second annual theme at the Cluster of Excellence to examine how traditions emerge and change

11-10-2021

Lecture series “Broadening the view: Archaeology globally” of the “Archaeology Diagonal” network

08-10-2021

Political scientist Bernd Schlipphak on the outcome of the 2021 Bundestag elections

08-10-2021

Third day of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of Münster, with participation of the Cluster of Excellence

02-10-2021

Historian Prof. Dr. Olaf Blaschke on the Catholic theologian and social reformer Franz Hitze

30-09-2021

War and Peace – nuclear war in the speeches of Pope Pius XII

24-09-2021

Facial expressions decisive for first impressions that Germans have of refugees

23-09-2021

Legal scholar Peter Oestmann on 70 years of the Federal Constitutional Court

17-09-2021

Kiss of Judas, regicide, whistleblowing: Conference on the history of treason

14-09-2021

Questions of religious policy for the 2021 Bundestag election

10-09-2021

Mouhanad Khorchide on religion and power in Afghanistan

03-09-2021

Acquisition of funds for research network “Cultures of Compromise”

02-09-2021

British Academy awards the Burkitt Medal to Rainer Albertz

03-09-2021

Advanced 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

New Dossier Chapter: God's will/ god's succour? Religious interpretations of epidemics

19-08-2021

Judaist Walter Schiffer in the podcast about remembrance of the Shoah today

13-08-2021

Judaist Regina Grundmann in the podcast about the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith)

12-08-2021

Research at the European Academy on “Religion and Change”

11-08-2021

Church historian Arnold Angenendt has died

06-08-2021

Management post to be filled

08-08-2020

Three positions for Postdoctoral Research Associates Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in to be filled

05-08-2021

Podcast series “Belonging or Excluded?“: Martin Herholz on the end of the German-Jewish press

23-07-2021

Theologian Michael Seewald is to become a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

09-07-2021

Video of the Roundtable on Belonging and Demarcation in Populist Discourse

07-07-2021

University society awards prize to Romance Studies scholar Pia Doering

02-07-2021

Opening of the graduate school "Regional Regulation of Religious Plurality in Comparison" on 8 July 2021

29-06-2021

Video of roundtable on the ethics and politics of integration

28-06-2021

Fake News in the Middle Ages - Conference beginning 1 July, and episode 8 of the research podcast

25-06-2021

Video of the presentation of an international survey on identity conflicts in Europe

25-05-2021

Study on the role of religious actors in the Covid 19 pandemic

14-06-2021

Integration Policy and Populism: Roundtables at the Cluster of Excellence

03-05-2021

Religious life in the Middle Ages – Judaist Katrin Kogman-Appel about the Amsterdam Mahsor in the podcast “Belonging or Excluded?”

11-06-2021

Jewish scholar Lisa Bachmann on Jewish life in the North Sea resort of Norderney in the 19th and early 20th century in the research podcast

20-05-2021

Day of the Cluster of Excellence. Insights into new research projects

10-06-2021

German scholar Christian Sieg on Perspectives from cultural studies on Conspiracy Narratives

09-06-2021

Video of the lecture by Blumenberg Visiting Professor Marc Helbling on "Islamophobia in Western Europe: Fear of Muslims or of Fundamentalists?"

07-06-2021

Jewish scholar Rainer Barzen on Jewish commemoration of the dead in the Middle Ages in the research podcast

01-06-2021

Sociologist Marc Helbling new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor

28-05-2021

Study about conspiracy theories in Germany, Poland, Jordan

21-05-2021

Research podcast about the history of the emotion hate

10-05-2021

Ancient historian Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn awarded with honorary doctorate by Eötvös Loránd University Budapest

07-05-2021

Moral satire "The Ship of Fools" by Sebastian Brant – Research podcast with Germanist Bruno Quast

28-04-2021

Research Findings on Protestant Members of Parliament

22-04-2021

Former Bundestag president Thierse warns against aggression towards majority society

19-04-2021

Cluster of Excellence’s new research podcast “Belonging or Excluded?” sheds light on 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany

16-04-2021

Panel "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

Lecture on Religion and Politics in Literature by Germanist Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

09-04-2021

Perry Schmidt-Leukel on the late Swiss theologian Hans Küng

01-04-2021

Approval for the Käte Hamburger-Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research under the leadership of the historian Ulrike Ludwig and the legal scholar Peter Oestmann

28-03-2021

Perry Schmidt-Leukel on Life after Death in World religions

19-03-2021

Research project on radicalisation among Muslims acquired

18-03-2021

“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

First episode of the “Religion and Politics” podcast – survey on corona and social cohesion

Research on political activities of Protestant theologians from the 19th century until today

03-02-2021

According to cultural scientist Jan Assmann, the Internet fails to fulfil important functions in the cultural memory of societies.

02-02-2021

Survey: 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

Jan Assmann: Nationalisms and religion fuse in authoritarian regimes

02-02-2021

New network for African research related to religion

31-01-2021

New newsletter published

22-01-2021

Legal scholar Matthias Casper on trends in Islamic banking

The 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

Political 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

Judaist 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

Continuation of training programme “Religious Journalism”

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