"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
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Recent Publications
- Back, Mitja/ Echterhoff, Gerald/ Müller, Olaf/ Pollack, Detlef/ Schlipphak, Bernd. 2022. Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern. Ein neuer Identitätskonflikt in Europa. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-36808-1
- Bauer, Thomas. 2022. La pérdida de la ambigüedad. Sobre la univocación del mundo. Barcelona: Herder Editorial.
- Hohmann, Uta Elisabeth/ von Scheliha, Arnulf/ Jacob, Catharina (Hgg.): 2022. "Eyn sonderlicher Gottesdienst". Evangelische Theologinnen und Theologen als Parlamentarier. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.
- Jensz, Felicity. 2022. Missionaries and modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. ‘A Mirror for the Modern Girl: Work and Marriage in an Indonesian Magazine for Young Women, c. 1937-1941.’ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 15, Nr. 1: 93-111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2022.0005
- Seewald, Michael. 2022. O Dogma em Evolução. Como se desenvolvem as doutrinas da fé. Parede: Lucerna.
- Thieme, Sarah (2022). ‘To stay, serve and witness’ – church politics and British inner cities in the 1980s. Urban History, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0963926821000778