Working Groups

Current interdisciplinary working groups take up ideas from ongoing research in light of new questions, such as those concerning belonging and non-belonging.

• Ethos (Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Pia Doering)
• Competition between truths in an interdisciplinary and trans-epochal approach (Wolfram Drews)
• Understandings of Religion(s) and Modes of Belonging (Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Thomas Stodulka, Dorothea Schulz, Simone Sinn, Markus Rüsch)
• Contesting Knowledge Formations in a Multi-Polar World (Dorothea Schulz, Thomas Stodulka, Victoria Sakti, Norbert Litoing (Nairobi))
• Positioning the religious: sacred artefacts in museum contexts (Eva-Maria Krems, Lutz Doering, Achim Lichtenberger, Ulrike Ludwig, Jens Niebaum)
• Multiple Belongings in (Post)imperial Formations (Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Olaf Blaschke, Philip Bockholt, Heike Bungert, Wolfram Drews, Jens Niebaum, Dorothea Schulz, Kerstin Storm, Ricarda Vulpius)
• Seals in context: Seal decoration and seal practice as expressions of belonging (Lutz Doering, Achim Lichtenberger, Angelika Lohwasser, Katharina Schmidt)
• Belonging in/to place: Religious conversations with the environment in ancient Egypt and Greece (Hans Beck, Achim Lichtenberger, Angelika Lohwasser)