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First year students take notice: The summer semester 2024 starts!

We warmly welcome all freshmen and students who will be starting their semester at CERES in April 2024. You can …

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The Lord is My Goalkeeper – Football and Religion in Light of their Metaphors

A Collaborative Research Centre on Religion and Metaphor is holding an event at the Football Museum – as happened last …

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Metaphors Everywhere! The Power of Metaphors in the Media

The CRC 1475 School Lab "Metaphors Everywhere!" celebrated its premiere at the Linguistics@Schools Day on 27.02.2024. It is aimed at 11th grade school students and focuses on metaphors in contemporary media discourses.

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FUSSBALLGOTT UND FUSSBALLGÖTTER - Ein Abend über Religion und Fußball im Ruhrgebiet (March 20th)

Das Stadion wird zum Fußballtempel, der neue Stürmer zum Heilsbringer, die Fans pilgern zum Trainingsgelände und was die Fußballgötter auf …

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DiGA research project continues to digitize Gandhara art in Pakistan: New insights into Buddhist culture

In April 2023, CERES researchers travelled to Pakistan to continue their research project on site. The impressive trip was captured in a film and is available on YouTube.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. …