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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …