News and Press Releases

02-02-2021

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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

03-02-2021

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

03-02-2021

Jan Assmann: Nationalisms and religion fuse in authoritarian regimes

02-02-2021

New network for African research related to religion

31-01-2021

Legal scholar Matthias Casper on trends in Islamic banking

26-01-2021

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

17-12-2020

The cultural scientist and Egyptologist Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster

16-12-2020

Lecture by historian Lora Wildenthal on belonging and gender in German colonialism

11-12-2020

Ancient historian Prof. Dr. Hans Beck has presented research results on the influence of localism in the globalized world of ancient Greece

04-12-2020

Due to corona, the exhibition “Signs of the Future: Divination in East Asia and Europe", in which the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster is involved, has started digitally

02-12-2020

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Initial findings on abuse in the diocese of Münster

23-11-2020

Initial results of a survey by the Cluster of Excellence on corona and faith

13-10-2020

Archaeologists of the University of Münster led by ancient historian Prof. Engelbert Winter from the Cluster of Excellence have uncovered an early Christian basilica in south-eastern Turkey

23-11-2020

Historian Sarah Thieme was elected to the team of spokespersons of the Schwerter Working Group for Catholicism Research

24-11-2020

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Corona pandemic: wide-ranging research at the Cluster of Excellence on epidemics

17-11-2020

„Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies 2020“ for religious studies scholar Perry Schmidt-Leukel

Art historian Dr. Francesco Gusella on new directions in global art history

Scholar of religious studies Dr. Julian Strube deals with Western esoteric reception of Hinduism and its essential role in what is commonly labelled as Western esotericism

26-10-2020

“Repercussions of colonial pasts still causing problems for populations today”

26-10-2020

First annual theme sheds light on the social challenges of “belonging and demarcation”

27-10-2020

New research projects expand the range of themes at the Cluster of Excellence

13-10-2020

NRW graduate school “Religious Plurality” will in future examine regional religious diversity in comparison with different countries

28-09-2020

Latin work of Leonardus Lessius, important pioneer of European business ethics, available in German for the first time

The Latin work of an important pioneer of modern business ethics, the Dutch legal scholar and moral theologian Leonardus Lessius (1554-1623), is being made available in German for the first time. The dutch legal scholar and moral theologian Leonardus Lessius developed innovative legal and ethical principles, comments the publisher, legal historian Prof. Dr. Nils Jansen from the Cluster of Excellence. The first of ten volumes will be published by frommann-Holzboog Verlag next week.

Theologian Hans-Peter Großhans elected president of the European Academy of Religion

29-07-2020

WWU-Fellowship Programme “Women in Research” for Postdocs from Europe

24-07-2020

From a historical perspective, the conversion of religiously and politically charged buildings such as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is no new phenomenon

New Research Cloud "Localism and the Local" at the Cluster of Excellence

17-07-2020

Already 300 years ago: Historian reconstructs emergence in England of conspiracy theories on plague outbreak in Marseilles in 1720

01-07-2020

The future in the time of corona

Social anthropologist Dorothea Schulz contrasts the conception of futurity in Uganda and Mali during the corona crisis with tendencies in European public discourse.

03-06-2020