The relations between religion and modernity are highly ambivalent. Whereas the previously dominant secularization paradigm had described the loss of …
The project DiGA (Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts) proposes to conceptualise the digitization of a corpus of Buddhist sculptures …
The network of long distance trade routes through Central Asia designated by Ferdinand von Richthofen as "Silk Road" have provided …
The interdisciplinary graduate school Religiöse Pluralität und ihre Regulierung in der Region (RePliR) focusses on the impact of religious pluralisation …
Tibetologist Dr. Jan-Ulrich Sobisch has received the Humboldt Award for a research fellowship. During his fellowship between November 2017 and …
Within ongoing processes of religious pluralisation across Europe, materialized religion, in the form of icons in public space, has been …
The project deals with interreligious activities and religious encounter in the Ruhr area. Since the topography of religious diversity in …
The working group brings together scholars, curators, and Digital Humanities specialists around the theme of Linked Data Methodologies applied to …
The project addresses two main questions: What are the structures of religious communication in online contexts, and how do religious …
Prior to this research project, the research on religious pluralism in North Rhine-Westphalia had conducted the first comprehensive survey of …
The 12th century marked a watershed in the formation of Tibetan religion, from which emerged its forms familiar to us today. …
This project intends to analyse a fundamental explanatory model of modern art historiography, to investigate its validity and to discuss …
Unlike the United States, European countries hardly look back on centuries of religious diversity. Questions like how to encourage a …
For a long time Japanese companies were recognized as innovative role models for their western counterparts. High productivity, low absenteism …
Modern pluralistic societies are characterised by citizens of different religious backgrounds and affiliations, that influence their political attitudes and decisions. …
Die Pluralisierung der religiösen Mitgliedschaften und Angebote gehört zu den wichtigsten Strukturmerkmalen moderner Gesellschaften. Das Forschungsprojekt Religiöse Vielfalt in Nordrhein-Westfalen …
SeNeReKo is a joint research project of the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr University Bochum and the Trier …
This teaching-learning-project studies the objections towards images in different cultural and religious contexts, reaching from a reflected criticism to violent …
Death is one of the most central topics in the history of religions. In all civilisations and periods of human …
Japanese monk Gomyō (ca. b. 750, d. 834) dealt with theories of logic that were originally formultated in India. He …
This research project explores the neo-sannyasins or also known as Rajneesh movement and their impact in West-Germany in the 1970s …
The project, The Ten Lost Tribes: Cross-Cultural Perspective, sponsored by the German-Israel Foundation (GIF), brings together scholars from Germany …
The biblical Book of Numbers (the so called Fourth Book of Moses) is the result of long-lasting and multifaceted redactional …
Als Einstieg wurden repräsentative Religionswissenschaftler der Zeit von 1945-1965 untersucht: Helmut von Glasenapp (Tübingen), Friedrich Heiler (Marburg), Gustav Mensching (Bonn) …
Das Projekt hat die Analysen zur religiösen Lage (in Feuilletons von Siegfried Kracauer, Schriften von Paul Tillich und Eugen Rosenstock), …
From 2009 trough 2014, the young researchers' group Networking Religion – Civic and Economic Potentials of Religious Communities was led …
