"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
Latest News
Latest newsletter of the Cluster of Excellence published
The latest newsletter of the Cluster of Excellence has been published. It provides many reflections on the corona epidemic from the perspective of the humanities, as well as current research findings on religion, law and politics. It also provides information about publications, staff, and events at our Cluster. (exc/maz)
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Individual challenges and opportunities
Report in the University of Münster's newspaper wissen|leben on research at the Cluster of Excellence during the coronavirus pandemic.
News
- Theory of Religious Diversity meets with research interest in China (03.06.2020)
- Making research easy to understand – The Cluster of Excellence's transfer concept (22.05.2020)
- Historian and theologian Thomas Lentes has died (19.05.2020)
- New flexible working groups at the Cluster: Research Clouds "Digital Humanities", "Memory and Forgetting" and "Social Forms of Religion" (09.04.2020)
- Cancelled: Conferences and evening talks held by the Cluster of Excellence cancelled until the end of May (17.03.2020)
- Reduction of operations at the WWU (19.03.2020)
All news at a glance
Upcoming Events
- Cancelled: Lecture "Religion und Kultur: Ägypten - Israel - Abendland", Jan Assmann (16.06.2020)
- Cancelled: Lecture Series "Dynamics of the Religious" on Charles Taylor (26.05.2020)
- Cancelled: Lecture Series Dynamics of the Religious on Max Weber (19.05.2020)
- Cancelled: Master class "Theory of the South" (12.05.2020)
- Cancelled: Start of the Lecture Series "Dynamics of the Religious" (05.05.2020)
- Cancelled: Book presentation "Baudelaire and Paris" (23.04.2020)
- Cancelled: International Conference "Islam and Enlightenment" (01.04.2020)
All Events
Recent Publications
- Doering, Pia Claudia. 2020. „Beichte und religiöse Heuchelei in den Novellen Boccaccios und Marguerite de Navarres.“, in: Reformation(en) in der Romania. Zur Frage der Interkonfessionalität in den romanischen Literaturen der Frühen Neuzeit, herausgegeben von Fliege Daniel, Gerrits Rogier, S. 293-310. Heidelberg.
- Jensz, Felicity. 2020. ‘Miscarriage and Coping in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Private Notes from Distant Places.’, in: Gender & History 32, p. 1-16, doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12478.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten/ van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise. 2020. ‘Education, Labour and Discipline: New Perspectives on Indigenous Children in Colonial Asia.’, in: International Review of Social History 65, Nr. 1: p. 1-14, doi: 10.1017/S0020859019000750.
- Kogman-Appel, Katrin: Catalan Maps and Jewish Books: The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387), Turnhout: Brepols 2020.
- Seewald, Michael: El dogma en evolución. Cómo se desarrollan las doctrinas de fe, SalTerrae: Bilbao 2020.
- Westerwelle, Karin: Baudelaire und Paris. Flüchtige Gegenwart und Phantasmagorie, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2020. doi: 10.30965/9783846759776.
Publications from the Cluster of Excellence
Campus of Religions
The University of Münster will establish an internationally unique “Campus of Religions”. From 2023, it will bring together Protestant, Catholic, Christian Orthodox and Islamic theology as well as University institutions of non-denominational studies of religion, promoting interdisciplinary academic exchange.