All religions, which are commonly known as world religions, have their origin in the vast territories between the Mediterranean and the Pacific. Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam originated in Asia. The same holds true for the Hindu religions, Confucianism, and rather less known traditions such as Jainism, Sikhism or Zoroastrianism. Besides these religions the Eurasian history of religions was also determinated by religions, which are today either mariginal or even extinct such as the religious system of the Roman Empire, the Babylonian religion or Manichaeanism.
Given this situation, CERES has dedicated an entire focus area to the history of religions in Eurasia. This area includes the European as well as Western, South, Central and East Asian history of religions in past and present times.
One of the central assumption of this focus area is that initially regional religious fields emerged and developed further to bigger entities due to processes within the history of religions. Today, there is a tendency towards a worldwide religious field with global networks between different religions.
The Tibetan scholar Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (10th century) was an influential figure in Tibet’s intellectual history, who played a …
The teaching-learning-project "Ancient Religion(s) in Contact" (ARELINCO) enables students from the fields of religious studies, history, archaeology, philology, and related …
The ERC-project Armenia Entangled deals with the entangled history of the Armenian plateau and its adjacent areas. It is based …
Medieval and early modern Jews usually lived as a minority under non-Jewish rule, but there are a few known cases …
The objective of the research project Buddhist Road is to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities …
The DiGA project will digitize (2D and 3D) and catalogue a corpus of 1,791 Buddhist sculptures from Gandhara currently kept …
Jainism is the third religion, along with Buddhism and Brahmanism ("Hinduism"), that originated in ancient India and continues to exist …
The encounters and interactions between Jews and Christians in the Middle East, Ethiopia, India and the Caucasus, which have hitherto …
The Käte Hamburger Center Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe, headed by Prof. Dr. Volkhard …
Zusammen mit Fachkolleg/innen in Museen und Universitäten untersuchen Wissenschaftler/innen des CERES und KHK die materielle Dimension des Kultur- und Religionskontakts …
This project is the first extensive study on conversion metaphors for Latin Late Antiquity. Using cognitive-linguistic metaphor theories and model …
Iranian languages usually exhibit aspect as a morphologically marked category of the verb. The verbal stems can be identified as …
With the purpose of providing philologically well-grounded research concerning tradition building processes among the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyüpa traditions in the …
The Middle Persian language played a prominent historical and cultural role in the first millennium CE as the official language …
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 …
Tibetologist Dr. Jan-Ulrich Sobisch has received the Humboldt Award for a research fellowship. During his fellowship between November 2017 and …
The working group brings together scholars, curators, and Digital Humanities specialists around the theme of Linked Data Methodologies applied to …
The 12th century marked a watershed in the formation of Tibetan religion, from which emerged its forms familiar to us today. …
For a long time Japanese companies were recognized as innovative role models for their western counterparts. High productivity, low absenteism …
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 …
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