Digital worlds of religion on Instagram: Insights, trends and discussions in the new book "Religion on Instagram"

CERES Professor Anna Neumaier has published a contribution in the newly released volume "Religion on Instagram" and talks about the work and her text in a 1-minute book talk.

Vacancy: PhD candidate (m,f,x) for DFG-Project MPCD "Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary"!

At CERES, one position of a PhD candidate (TV-L E 13, 29,87 weekly working hours) is to be filled at the earliest possible date after 01.04.2024 for 36 months. The candidate will choose to enrol in the PhD program at the Faculty of Philology, RUB, or Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne.

Stellenausschreibung: Studentische Hilfskraft (SHK) (m/w/d) für DFG-Projekt REDiCON gesucht!

Im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts REDiCON "Religion – Digitality – Confessionality" suchen wir zur Unterstützung des Bochumer Teilprojektes eine studentische oder wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, befristet für zunächst ein Jahr.

Visit of an almost forgotten missionary collection

Researchers affiliated to the Research Focus “Missionary Collections” at CERES, recently followed an invitation from the Protestant Missionary Society in Hermannsburg to visit the local mission collection.

Success of the BuddhistRoad Project: Establishment of new research field of Central Asian Buddhism

After six and a half years of fruitful project work, the ERC-funded project BuddhistRoad has officially come to an end. …

Research Tools of the BuddhistRoad Project go online

We are delighted to announce that Research Tools of the BuddhistRoad Project are now available online on our website. Explore …

From an oasis in the middle of the Taklamakan desert to Bochum

Neil Schmid has already lived in big cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo, and most recently in the solitude of the desert. He is conducting research at CERES for three months.

Faith, the public sphere and plurality: Anna Neumaier talks about religious freedom in Austria

The discussion about religious symbols in public and the role of religions in ethical debates are the focus of the conversation with Anna Neumaier on the ORF online page.

Stellenangebot

Verwaltungsangestellte*r gesucht. Bis zum 28. Januar 2024 bewerben!

Das Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) sucht ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Verwaltungsangestellte*n (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (39,83 Std./Wo.).

New publication: Mission history collections today – The museum as a contact zone

In November 2023, the conference volume "Missionsgeschichtliche Sammlungen heute: Das Museum als Kontaktzone" was published. The volume goes back to …