"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
contribution
Already 300 years ago: Epidemics and conspiracy theories
Historian reconstructs emergence in England of conspiracy theories on plague outbreak in Marseilles in 1720 that provoked heated debates and criticism of the measures taken by the government.
Catalan Atlas
Scholar of Jewish Studies Katrin Kogman-Appel analyses the Jewish scribe Abraham Cresques (1325-1387), author of one of the most important medieval world maps.
Theme
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
- WWU-Fellowship Programme “Women in Research” for Postdocs from Europe (29.07.2020)
- New Research Cloud "Localism and the Local" at the Cluster of Excellence (20.07.2020)
- The future in the time of corona
- Historian Liliya Berezhnaya to present her research in Ukraine on bulwark myths
- Theory of Religious Diversity meets with research interest in China (03.06.2020)
- Latest newsletter of the Cluster of Excellence published (29.05.2020)
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Recent Publications
- Doering, Pia Claudia. 2020. „Die 'patria potestas' in Boccaccios Decameron.“, in: Das Mittelalter 25, Nr. 1: 66-82.
- Hahn, Johannes/ Menze, Volker (Hgg.): The Wandering Holy Man. The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine, Oakland: University of California Press 2020.
- Khorchide, Mouhanad: Gottes falsche Anwälte. Der Verrat am Islam, Freiburg i.Br.: Herder Verlag 2020.
- Siep, Ludwig: Technisierung der Natur – Historisierung der Moral. Ziele und Grenzen, Paderborn: mentis Verlag 2020.
- Thieme, Sarah. 2020. Kirchliche Akteure vor den Herausforderungen des urbanen Strukturwandels 1955–1995: Manchester und Essen im Vergleich., in: Mitteilungen für Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 14: 145-151.
- Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina: Sich entscheiden. Momente der Autobiographie bei Goethe, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2020.
- Wolf, Hubert: Der Unfehlbare: Pius IX. und die Erfindung des Katholizismus im 19. Jahrhundert, München: C. H. Beck 2020.
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.