"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
“A leading Arabic poet, who was long virtually unknown”
A long-term digital project to produce an edition of the complete works of the leading Arabic poet of his time, Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī, who was virtually unknown to a broader public until recently, is being launched this week at the University of Münster.
News
- 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)
- Islamic theologian Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide awarded with “Ring of Tolerance” (18.11.2019)
- Religious Studies Scholar Perry Schmidt-Leukel receives Höffmann Academic Award (08.11.2019)
- Graduate School launches new doctoral programme (11.10.2019)
- Hermann Abert Prize for Musicologist Dominik Höink (01.10.2019)
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Upcoming Events
- 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)
- Cancelled: Forschungskolleg "Religiöse Pluralität" stellt Abschlussergebnisse vor (ab 26.03.2020)
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Recent Publications
- Kalfagianni, Agni/ Fuchs, Doris/ Hayden, Anders (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance. New York & Abingdon: Routledge 2020. doi: 10.4324/9781315170237.
- Kuckertz Josephine/ Lohwasser, Angelika: Introduction to the Religion of Kush, Dettelbach: J.H. Röll Verlag 2019.
- Reiß, Tim: Diskurstheorie der Demokratie und Religion (Studien zur Politischen Soziologie, Bd. 37), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2019.
- Schnoor, Antje: Transformational Ethics: The Concept of Obedience in Post-Conciliar Jesuit Thinking, in: Religions 2019, 10, 342. doi: 10.3390/rel10050342.
- Wolf, Hubert: Verdammtes Licht. Der Katholizismus und die Aufklärung, München: C.H. Beck 2019.
- von Scheliha, Arnulf. 2019. Der deutsche Protestantismus auf dem Weg zur Demokratie. In: Große Kracht, Hermann/ Schreiber, Gerhard (Hrsg.): Wechselseitige Erwartungslosigkeit? Die Kirchen und der Staat des Grundgesetzes - Gestern, heute, morgen, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, S. 57-78.
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.