"Religion and Politics" – Cluster of Excellence at the WWU Münster
The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation” has been investigating since 2007 the complex relationship between religion and politics across eras and cultures. In the funding phase from 2019 to 2025, the 140 researchers from 20 disciplines in the humanities and social sciences analyze in transepochal studies ranging from antiquity to the present day the factors that make religion the motor of political and social change. The research network is the largest of its kind in Germany; and, of the Clusters of Excellence, one of the oldest and the only one to deal with the issue of religion. full story
Buddha Mind – Christ Mind
How religion is transmitted in families
Conference on Jerome Xavier
Commentaries on European Contract Laws
Interreligious Theology – Video of the series “Research Projects in Focus”
No world peace without peace between religions: Scholar of Religious Studies and theologian Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel examines what the great world religions think of each other and how they explain that there are more religious traditions other than their own. Never before has mankind been more aware of how many religions there are than today. This harbours a great potential for conflicts, says the scholar of religious studies in a new episode of the video series Research Projects in Focus. If the religions and theologies manage, however, to come closer together, this has great potential for peace. The film gives insight into his research project “Interreligious Theology” at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” of Münster University. (maz/vvm)
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