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Online Closing Conference of the ERC Project “BuddhistRoad”

Between the 6th and 14th centuries, Buddhism on the Silk Road met not only with other religions, from both east …

International Award for Research Project on Spaces of Religious Minorities

Just days ago, Martin Radermacher, researcher at CERES in Bochum, received the Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund Award of the …

Stellenausschreibung: Stud. Hilfskraft Lehreinheit Religionswissenschaft

Die Lehreinheit der ZWE CERES sucht zum 01. September 2021 eine studentische Hilfskraft (SHK) zur Unterstützung der Dozierenden der Lehreinheit, …

Debatte über die Herausforderungen von religiöser Vielfalt: Forschungskolleg lädt zu digitaler Auftakttagung ein

Welche Herausforderungen bringt die zunehmende religiöse Vielfalt mit sich? Und welche Rolle kommt der Wissenschaft bei der Gestaltung der Zukunft …

New Research Project: Metaphors of Religious Conversion in Late Antiquity

A new research project at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) is dedicated to the metaphors, that were used within …

Children's Book: How the Stars got into the Sky

How was world created? Many religious traditions have their own answers to this question, and they are told in this …

Ruhr-Universität Bochum interviews Volkhard Krech

Anything but out of date: Under the title “Mehr als dicke Bücher” (More than voluminous books) the Ruhr-Universität Bochum portrays …

Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für CERES IT-Service

Die ZWE CERES sucht eine wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (B.A.) mit 9 Std./Woche für 6 Monate für den IT-Support. Die Arbeitszeiten können …

KHK in the Final: Last Conference of the Research Project held online

After over twelve years of research, more than 150 invited international research fellows and over 200 events that were organised, …

Religion and Pandemic: Entangled Religions publishes Open Peer Reviewed Special Issue

Religions worldwide have been strongly affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The very fact of the pandemic, its emotional perception, …