The relations between religion and modernity are highly ambivalent. Whereas the previously dominant secularization paradigm had described the loss of …
The interdisciplinary graduate school Religiöse Pluralität und ihre Regulierung in der Region (RePliR) focusses on the impact of religious pluralisation …
Within ongoing processes of religious pluralisation across Europe, materialized religion, in the form of icons in public space, has been …
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 …
The project addresses two main questions: What are the structures of religious communication in online contexts, and how do religious …
NFDI4Memory is one of several consortia within Germany that will jointly manage the creation of a long-term and sustainable research …
Prior to this research project, the research on religious pluralism in North Rhine-Westphalia had conducted the first comprehensive survey of …
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 …
Over a period of three years, the network, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will investigate how …
SeNeReKo is a joint research project of the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr University Bochum and the Trier …
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 …
The Tibetan scholar Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (10th century) was an influential figure in Tibet’s intellectual history, who played a …
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 …
The ʿAyn al-Naẓar is a treatise by Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d. 722/1322) on certain logical elements of Islamic dialectical disputation …
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 …
EMPATHIA³ is unique research network of five partners from six institutions in Germany. The name of the network stands for …
Langtitel "Einsichten in die Traditionsbildungsprozesse bei den bka' brgynd pas, basierend auf einem Manuskript von 'Jig rten gsum mgons dGongs …
This project aims to challenge the paradigmatic notion “Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement.” This labeling is a byproduct of research conducted during …
Tibetologist Dr. Jan-Ulrich Sobisch has received the Humboldt Award for a research fellowship. During his fellowship between November 2017 and …
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 …
This project is the first extensive study on conversion metaphors for Latin Late Antiquity. Using cognitive-linguistic metaphor theories and model …
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 …
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 …
The project is a collaboration between CERES and the Chair for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Technical …
This teaching-learning-project studies the objections towards images in different cultural and religious contexts, reaching from a reflected criticism to violent …
Digital transformation in the museum sector changes the transfer of knowledge in exhibitions. Technical innovations lead to entirely new ways …
Iranian languages usually exhibit aspect as a morphologically marked category of the verb. The verbal stems can be identified as …
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 …
In this project, Volkhard Krech builds up on his own research and the findings of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Dynamics …
With the purpose of providing philologically well-grounded research concerning tradition building processes among the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyüpa traditions in the …
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 …
The Middle Persian language played a prominent historical and cultural role in the first millennium CE as the official language …
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, der sich ab 1989 Osho nannte, war der bekannteste der indischen Gurus, die in der zweiten Hälfte …
Her current project, A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome, demonstrates that priestesses had a vibrant and vivid …
After the breakdown of the Chinese Empire in the early 20th century, liberalism and marxism as the two main currents …
Latin Christianity is not generally understood as tolerant. On the contrary the history of the crusades and the inquisition have …
Mit dem Aufkommen digitaler Medien und Social Media (z. B. Twitter, Instagram und YouTube) wird Religion auch virtuell sichtbar: Der …
This project is perceived as part of a broader direction of reassessment of the socio-cultural life of the diverse religious …
The project will focus on concepts in classical Chinese texts which prima facie belong into the word field of religion. …
In a multi-cultural environment and especially in conditions of empire, pilgrimage can be a tool for individuals and groups to …
Context Considering the frequently discussed role that religion, particularly Islam, plays in the context of integration, identity and participation, …
Not even a single text remains from the flourishing Buddhist culture in Andhra. Today, only the stones survive. The project …
The teaching-learning-project "Ancient Religion(s) in Contact" (ARELINCO) enables students from the fields of religious studies, history, archaeology, philology, and related …
Angels’ Tongues and Witches’ Curses discusses the development of Jewish magical and mystical traditions in the ancient world (ca. 250 …
11. - 21. Juli 2019: Galerie der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster Konzeption von Dr. Patrick Felix Krüger (CERES) In der …
This project will explore the modes and patterns of “argument to the senses” (ATS) in the proto- and early ādāb …
The ERC-project Armenia Entangled deals with the entangled history of the Armenian plateau and its adjacent areas. It is based …
In the Roman Empire, Judaism and Christianity encountered a general fascination for religious movements from the East. It was from …
During the research period from June 2008 through to May 2009, the main focus will be on the question of …
Die okzidentale Metaphysik des Bildes, die aus verschiedenen religiösen Konfliktfeldern –Bilderkult und Verwerfung der Götterbilder im antiken Mittelmeerraum, Reliquien- und …
13. Oktober 2018 - 24. Februar 2019: Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Bochum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) …
The project focuses on the dialogical engagement of the West Syrian Maphrian, Gregory Barhebraeus (1226-1286CE), with Islamic philosophy; an engagement …
This project seeks to research the mutual coproductions of Buddhism and Bon in early Tibet. Broadly speaking, it takes as …
The aim of the project is to analyze concepts of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in 16th century Korean Confucianism. Crucial questions …
This project attempts to look at Buddhist diversity and inter-regional religious connectivity in Southeast Asia through the lens of Chinese …
In the propagation and spread of Buddhism throughout Asia, narratives in the form of ‘stories’ played an eminent role, both …
This book-project, tentatively entitled 'Global Catholic Missions and the Expansion of Europe, 1500-1800', will analyze the relationship between the maritime …
The aforementioned phenomena have yet to be sufficiently investigated in terms of historical evolution and sociological structures, so the project …
The term jonggyo (religion) was first used in Korea in the late 19th century when the Joseon government signed trade …
The project analyzes transcendent and semi-transcendent beings which were part of the Philippine mythology in pre-colonial times. It is based …
The project focusses on intersections and interactions between European and Indian notions of transcendence and immanence through the lens of …
Context In Germany, the late acknowledgement of being a country of immigration coincides with a growing visibility of and …
Configurations of religion(s) in colonial India are not only intrinsically connected to newly created political and legal frameworks, but also …
Many types of demons, both named and unnamed, appear as threats to human beings in the inscriptions on the Babylonian …
This project will analyse a particular process of inter-religious contact that took place in the broad lands of Islam, from …
Starting Point "Home country: Germany feat. Sri Lanka". With this ascription many Tamils who were born and grew up …
Das Projekt schlägt eine genuin philosophische Variante des Säkularisierungsbegriffs vor, die von den üblichen Verwendungsweisen des Begriffs keineswegs abgedeckt wird, …
Im Rahmen eines Projekts zur Geschichte der Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung in Deutschland soll die Semantik der „Rajneesh-Times Deutschland", des zentralen Presseorgans der …
Das Projekt nähert sich dem Phänomen Religion aus einer kommunikationstheoretischen Perspektive. Im Anschluss an Erkenntnisse der jüngeren Religionsforschung wird Religion …
This project is being undertaken in order to contextualize ancient Mesopotamian religion in the broader geographical and chronological framework of …
This methodological project confronts longstanding and fundamental critiques of comparison in Religious Studies, constructively engages with major objections, and argues …
Object of investigation is the Jewish self-conception in the 19th century, which was developed in the described field of conflict …
Divine kingship was an influential and widespread trope across medieval southern Asia. My project examines literary representations of Sri Lankan …
The application to antiquity of the study of the evolving of the distinction between immanence and transcendence as triggered by …
A critical edition of the Latin text on the basis of the relatively numerous manuscripts as well as the two …
The project will focus on the promotion of a religious "range of products" that early Buddhists offered to a competitive …
The research project examines the dialogic influence of ascetic others, in particular the Jain other, on the early Buddhist monastic …
The project shall investigate visual strategies elaborated in early modern Europe in order to facilitate communication between Christians and non-Christians …
The regular, sometimes daily ritual for divine cult statues in Egypt, Greece and other regions of the ancient Mediterranean goes …
Das Projekt zielte auf eine Analyse protestantischer Pfarrer in der Bundesrepublik als Instanzen der religiösen Sozialisation. Im Mittelpunkt des Projekts …
The project concentrates on the evolution and present dynamics of two conflicting religious cosmologies in East Tibet: the Tibetan indigenous …
In cultural studies the human necessity to conceive the course of life as being directed by some kind of divine …
This project investigates the centrality of religion in refugees' integration into German society, focusing on the controversy of recent mass …
The research to be carried out during the project will continue on-going investigations into the interaction between the Germanic and …
There is a good deal of research in this field, both in Arabic and in European languages. This research output …
The Yezidi religious tradition, both sacred texts and priestly learning, has been transmitted orally in a non- or semi-literate milieu …
Focusing on issues of gender and sexual difference as schemes for reconfiguring Islamic normativity, the project studies the shaping of …
The research topic of this project is the examination of the representations of the gods and supernatural mixed beings of …
Graduate School RePliV—Website For pluralistic societies, peaceful coexistence between members of different religious communities and non-religious people is a fundamental …
The “Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion” (GSMR) is the central instrument for the promotion of early career researchers in …
First, the Gush Emunim and Hamas movements will be analyzed independently regarding their structural, ideological, and strategic characteristics as well …
Das Ruhrgebiet ist alles andere als grau. Eine bunte Vielfalt an etwa 200 Religionsgemeinschaften lebt zwischen Rhein und Ruhr. Seit …
11. Oktober 2019 - 16. Februar 2020: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln Kooperationspartner: CERES, wissenschaftliche Beratung: Dr. Patrick F. Krüger (CERES) Die aus …
Eine Ausstellung zum Auftakt des Kollegs Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte zwischen Asien und Europa Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 16.10.2008 - 18.01.2009 …
Understanding of the religions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia has been transformed over the last 150 years by …
In the 16th century, when the Jesuits first reached South India, they discovered that its religious landscape was too …
During the period of the fellowship I was hoping to deepen my research focus on "Religion and Art? Contemporary Interpretations …
Despite the fact that our knowledge has increased with the help of somnology about how one third of our …
Architecture, especially religious architecture, is a means to negotiate the threshold between the Profane and the Sacred, between immanence and …
’Phags pa bla ma Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1235-1280), the first Imperial Preceptor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), was …
This research project deals with the institutional transformations that Islam is undergoing in Germany. The study focuses on several empirical …
The Eastern shores of the Baltic Sea have always been a borderland region between the influences of different political, cultural …
This project is a long-term research endeavor whose chief aim is to shed light on the sources, structure, function, and …
Eine Ausstellung von Studierenden des CERES unter Leitung von Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexander K. Nagel (CERES) Zentralbibliothek der Stadtbücherei Bochum 03.12.2012 …
The main aim of this project is to analyze the role of official and non-official Turkish Islamic organizations in the …
Alexander the Great, conqueror, second Achilles and self-proclaimed son of a god, is one of the most prominent common heroes …
Jainism is the third religion, along with Buddhism and Brahmanism ("Hinduism"), that originated in ancient India and continues to exist …
The project has three aims: a) Jerome and Jewish traditions in literature since around 1850 The subject "Jerome and the …
This project will examine Jewish, Christian, and Muslim imaginings about the ten lost tribes in conjunction with the development of …
Jewish communities have existed on Georgian territory since the turn of the first and second centuries AD. Soon thereafter, in …
Es ist die Absicht des Projekts, anhand der Arbeiten der anderen Teilprojekte des Internationalen Kollegs tertia comparationis zu erarbeiten, auf …
In mehrkonfessionellen Gesellschaften stellen konfessionsverschiedene Ehen ein besonderes Phänomen dar. Sie sind ein Indikator für den Stellenwert des Konfessionellen in …
Das politisch-religiöse Konzept des Christentums mit all seinen Anschlußoptionen, die in verschiedenen Epochen zunächst der europäischen Geschichte dem gesellschaftlichen und …
"Late Antique Religious Literacies between the Eastern Mediterranean and North-Africa" explores how the use of books as vehicles of ideas …
This research project aims at investigating the role of pictorial representations of Buddhist legendary accounts as possible conveyors of information …
Context To date, the immigration of Christian migrants to Germany has scarcely been discussed, both in the scientific debate …
The research project will focus on the interaction between the spheres of popular religiosity and the religion defined and controlled …
While the great religious, philosophical and narrative works produced in India are widely known for the most part, and have …
For a few decades a global discourse of contemporaneous self-designated 'magicians' is flourishing (more or less) below the …
The discipline of medieval French literature has been slower than others (compared to other European languages or to fields other …
The place of martyrdom within late medieval Latin Christianity has received relatively little attention. Scholars such as James Ryan have …
Das Teilprojekt „Mediale Debatten über Kirche und Religion 1945-1980“ beschäftigt sich in erster Linie mit den Fremdwahrnehmungen von Kirche und …
Context The pluralistic religious landscape of North Rhine-Westphalia is primarily the result of a long tradition of immigration to …
Arguably, since ancient times the Mediterranean is an area in which different religions have made mutual contact with unprecedented intensity. …
This project situates the beginning of China's modern conception of "religion" in the context of the nineteenth-century mission encounter. Rather …
When the Iberian Peninsula became part of the Umayyad Caliphate in the 8th century, the response to Islam by …
Apart from being the most powerful state formation (mahājanapada) in the early historic period, the Magadha region (situated in south …
Exploring texts of Nyang ral nyi ma 'od zer's seminal bKa' brgyad bde gshegs 'dus pa (Eightfold Buddha Word, …
Online-Ausstellung des HERA-Projekts "Iconic Religion" www.urban-sacred.org Die Ausstellung The Urban Sacred wurde zwischen Februar und Juli 2016 in vier europäischen …
Anti-Westernism, both in its historical and contemporary forms, is a widespread and multi-dimensional phenomenon with a variety of manifestations (e.g., …
My research project with the KHK investigates the cult of and discourses about Osiris in the Later Roman empire as …
The project deals with an interdisciplinary study of the concept of "Othering, Otherness and the Other" in Avestan texts, especially …
The two projects – dealing with otherness in interreligious encounters and with religion in maritime cultures – represent distinct ends …
The first phase of the project will be dedicated to a case study under the working title "Experienced or forced …
Luís de Camões – a debaucher, Indian Ocean rover, and Renaissance poet - was among Orta's close friends in Goa, …
Das beantragte Projekt knüpft an die kultursoziologische Perspektive der neueren sozialen Ungleichheitsforschung mit der Analyse neuer sozialer Milieus und der …
The imperial and religious projects of the Portuguese in early modern Asia brought about some of the earliest sustained contacts …
Inspired by the religious dynamics model formulated by the KHK and drawing on work in new materialism, actor-network-theory, and science …
This research project will deal with purity concepts and their relevance for identity construction in the New Testament. Methodologically it …
My research studies the transformation of Yezidi oral religious tradition into a bookish religion in Northern Iraq, triggered by the …
To avoid the restricted perspective that the western derived concept of religion is apt to create, this project will attempt …
Discussions and disputes about the reality, role and importance of analytic constructs such as ‘world-view’, ‘religious tradition’, or ‘culture’ seem …
Drawing the basic lines of the project ‘Religion of the Third Reich’, one will soon encounter the discussion whether the …
Düfte spielen in vielen Religionen eine zentrale Rolle: Egal ob Weihrauch in der römisch-katholischen und den orthodoxen Kirchen, ob Räucherstäbchen …
This proposed research project is part of a larger ethnographic project on recent so-called mass conversions of Iranian refugees to …
Hebrew anti-Christian polemical literature represents a rather rigid genre, most of the texts being written as polemical compendia where repeating …
This project aims to analyse the use of garments in the early-modern Jesuit mission in Japan (1549-1639), both in official …
In dem Projekt werden semantische und strukturelle Prozesse der religiösen Globalisierung in ihrer Wechselwirkung miteinander untersucht. Dabei kommt - unter …
After Buddhism and Confucianism were introduced to the Korean peninsula around the same time they coexisted peacefully for about a …
In diesem Vorhaben wurden in Verknüpfung mit den anderen Projekten der Forschergruppe Prozesse der Tradierung von religiösen und kirchlichen Inhalten, …
Background Islam is the largest minority religion in Germany, a fact that has led to the development of about …
CERES researchers, together with colleagues from museums and other universities, are studying the material dimension of cultural and religious contacts …
Eine Ausstellung des Kunstmuseums Bochum mit wissenschaftlicher Unterstützung des CERES. Kunstmuseum Bochum 02.11.2014 - 01.02.2015 Der Fokus bei der Auswahl …
Das beantragte Teilprojekt soll die Wechselwirkungen des Säkularen und Sakralen in der arabischen Sprachkultur im 20. Jahrhundert behandeln. Ausgangspunkt ist …
This project focuses on ritualizations of scriptures that effect the senses of sight, touch, and taste, or, at least, kiss. …
My research will focus on reading Umayyah’s poems and its treatment by early Muslim authors in the formative period of …
The aim of the project is to analyze the place and role of senses in the philosophical framework of Confucian …
Sensory Devotion and Inter-religious Encounters: Shared Festivals in Kerala (South India) seeks to probe into the nature of multi-culturalism in …
This project develops the concept of social forgetting by examining its relation with changing sacred landscapes. The researcher enquires into …
This project explores the question of continuity in the Abrahamic religious traditions and their common heritage. Therefore, Judaism, Christianity and …
Eine Ausstellung von Studierenden des CERES, kuratiert von Frederik Elwert und Gisela Ogasa. Universitätsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 03.07.2012- 30.09.2012 In …
In 1918, J.M. Bullock, who was the first person to attempt a “biographical bibliography” of Thomas Gordon (ca.1692-1750), complained that …
Taking the "invention" of "religion" in the middle of the 19th century as the point of departure, it is necessary …
A characteristic feature of Buddhism and Hinduism practised in the tantric mode is a complex metaphorical discourse, much of which …
The project is directed at the design of an integrated theory of action and language, using the paradigm of interpretation …
Phase I (2006-2009): Amt und Partizipation In der ersten Projektphase wurden am Beispiel ausgesuchter (Erz-)Diözesen und evangelischer Landeskirchen die strukturellen …
Die leitende Hypothese, von der das Projekt zur Interkulturalität der Sunna ausgehen soll, nimmt ebenfalls eine bereits der Entstehung des …
In the Islamic religious tradition, metaphors of space and movement hold a prominent place, starting with the “straight path” ( …
The subproject focuses on the role of spatial-kinetic metaphors in the formation of the Daoist religion between 300 BCE and …
This project aims, first, to contribute to the study of religious metaphors by investigating the Buddhist metaphors of light, space, …
Focusing on Zoroastrian eschatology, this project asks, to what extent the construction of religious meaning relies on the transformation of …
Subproject B01 investigates medical metaphors in Christian texts from the Middle Ages. The concept of ‘salvation’, ‘Seelenheil’ in German, is …
The religious dimension of Confucianism is frequently being sought in self-cultivation, understood as a quest for self-transcendence. The project aims …
This project focuses body-related metaphors from the Hebrew Bible, particularly from Psalms, Job, Jeremiah and Lamentations. Employing these metaphors, these …
The subproject gives attention to metaphors as constitutive of the emergence and development of two divergent dynamics in Hinduism, Buddhism …
The research project will focus on metaphors that occur in descriptions of out-of-body experiences. These will be taken out of …
The subproject C01 “Grammar as a Religious Metaphor” is dedicated to grammar as a source domain for religious metaphors. Grammarians …
Since the linguistic and conceptional proximity between law and religion in the ancient Near East is striking, this project wants …
The project explores religious metaphors from the semantic field of ordinary, everyday life. These metaphors revolve around a semantic gap: …
In this project, we analyze religious metaphors in online forum threads from the dual perspectives of computational linguistics and the …
Within the INF project, scholars of religion, computational linguists, and computer scientists jointly establish the digital research infrastructure of the …
The PR-project brings the CRC’s perspective on religion and metaphor to the public’s attention and invites the public to discover …
The problem of studying the syncretistic religious traditions deals with transferring and preserving of ancient knowledge in Islamic mystical institutions, …
In 1853, American warships appeared off the coast of Japan. Ultimately, the Americans forced the Japanese government to sign a …
Taoism has always emphasized mental serenity and has maintained that good effects will come about from it. To be serene …
Death is one of the most central topics in the history of religions. In all civilisations and periods of human …
Research will focus firstly on the flaws of Jaspers' original concept, such as its essentialism, its teleological/metaphysical conception of mind, …
The research project deals with a specific case of religious encounter: the one between shamanism and Buddhism in the Himalayan …
In 1741, a bowdlerized version of Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples …
Traditional religion in China centered on offerings and sacrifice made to gods and ancestors, and the dead were assumed to …
Situated on the boundary between Western and Eastern Christianity and bordering the territories controlled by the Ottomans, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was …
This research project aims to study the experience, material culture, and social background of the cultic practices of the peoples …
The project sets out to analyze the development of the concept of "religion" in Early Modern Europe onwards and its …
Confucianism has already been widely regarded as a religious tradition and taught at Western, if not only American, universities. But …
The Dimensions of Sound in Islam – Travelling Aesthetics explores the meanings and functions the Islamic religion ascribes to the …
During my stay at KHK I will work on the emergence and function of religious ideas as symbolic markers. I …
The project is connected to a new edition, (English) translation and extensive commentary of the “Records of the Western Regions” …
There have been many attempts at explaining the origin, formation and early development of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Often they are characterized …
The project intends to a) describe and to analyze the purity conceptions in the Torah and in the Book of …
On the basis of the fact that different traditions coincide in the Golden Legend while apocryphal literature of the Old …
The methodological orientation of this work takes the intercourse between Hellenism and Buddhism as a reciprocal, synchronic process of conversion …
My research project focuses on the main Central Eurasian religious ideas, especially in connection to the comitatus relationship (the sociopolitical …
The research aims to unravel the liturgical setting of Karaite liturgical poems before and simultaneously with the redaction of the …
The Labyrinth of Jericho: Between Jews and Christians, Image and Interpretation explores the widespread Medieval and early Modern manuscript tradition …
The present research analyzes and compares various types of sacrificial metaphors found in the Hebrew Bible (especially Psalms and Prophets) …
With the growing awareness of the importance of ‘religion’ in the modern world, the debate about this complex notion becomes …
This project does not exclusively aim to analyze motifs of mystery religions in the New Testament with regard to their …
The project aims to find out the motives of Zoroastrian priests in their literary production in the first centuries of …
The process of translation of Sanskrit sources into Persian must be reckoned among the great cross-cultural enterprises of mankind. It …
Das vorliegende Forschungsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit dem Postulat einer Interdependenz zwischen dem sakralen Königtum und antiken Mysterienkulten, bei denen einer …
This research project intends to contribute to a better approach to the formation and development of the so-called “Buddho-Taoist” texts …
In the course of this project central conditions and parameters of the transformation process outlined above will be analyzed in …
This project examines the theatrical spaces of holy graves in Shi'a Islam and Roman Catholic Christianity and the rituals connected …
Eine Wanderausstellung des HERA-Projekts "Iconic Religion", kuratiert von Susanne Lanwerd. 27.02. - 03.04.2016 Kunstmuseum Bochum 12.04. - 22.04.2016 Menier Gallery …
This project examines the dynamics of Christian and non-Christian identities as they were expressed through the Virgin Mary in the …
It is remarkable, that especially from Jainism an image tradition originated, since it was said to be an ascetic order, …
The project sets out to analyze the changes within the iconographic symbol system in Israel/ Palestine between the time of …
This project addresses historical and economic contexts for the movement of Buddhism across geographical and cultural boundaries between South Asia …
Over the second half of the twentieth century Buddhism and Christianity developed from limitedly tolerated practices that contradicted Soviet modernity …
Das zweite Teilprojekt des Forschungsbereiches "Transformation der Sozialformen religiösen Handelns" befasst sich mit den Transformationen der diakonisch/caritativen Handlungsformen beider Konfessionen …
The project aims at studying the post-Soviet transformation of indigenous religious traditions in Tuva and Altai republics of Russian Federation. …
Dieses Projekt will diese Lücke schließen. Es untersucht die Transformationsprozesse in der Selbstreflexion und der Selbstrepräsentation der Buddhisten Südostasiens während …
As part of the project, a synopsis of the different literary constellations of religious contacts in the Old Testament will …
The main task of the project is the phenomenological description of a basic term used in occidental strategies of argumentation …
The planned thorough investigation into the historical development of snake symbolism and snake cults in the Ancient Near East with …
Which prophetical declarations and advices will hold true? Prophecy was an important transcultural aspect of politics and power struggles in …
As a Turkic speaking tribe, the Uyghurs gradually converted to Buddhism after their migration from Mongolia into the Eastern Tianshan …
Im Teilprojekt "Visuelle Repräsentationen von Kirche und Religion" wird die außerkirchliche Fremdwahrnehmung in öffentlichen Bildern thematisiert. Mit Hilfe neuerer kulturgeschichtlicher …
Eine Ausstellung der Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl) mit wissenschaftlicher Unterstützung des CERES Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl) 22.04.2012 - …
During these eleven centuries, Muslim theology, philosophy, mysticism, and jurisprudence had undergone enormous changes. Many schools and sects had emerged …
Was sind die wichtigsten Feiertage im Islam? Stimmt es, dass Jesus von den Toten wieder auferstanden ist? Werde ich wiedergeboren, …
Das Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) kooperiert im Rahmen einer Ausstellung mit Werken des chinesischen Künstlers Qiu Shihua mit dem …
Ādāb al-falāsifa, an anthology of gnomic wisdom attributed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 260/973) ranks among the most successful …
This project deals with a less known Christian non-canonical writing, mainly known as Revelation of the Magi (Landau 2008). The …
Im Teilprojekt "Semantik kirchlicher Öffentlichkeiten: Kirchliche Akademien" geht es um die Selbstwahrnehmung der Kirchen in Deutschland in der zweiten Hälfte …
Das Teilprojekt: "Zur Semantik kirchlicher Medien" untersucht semantische und diskursive Konstruktionen der christlichen Kirchen in der BRD von 1945-1990. Was …
Medieval and early modern Jews usually lived as a minority under non-Jewish rule, but there are a few known cases …
Religious meaning-making occurs in and through metaphors. In metaphors, meaning is trans-ferred from one semantic domain to another. Religion, which …
The Study Advisory Board acts as a consultative body between the students and the decision-makers within the ZWE CERES. It …
Das CERES, die Stadt Bochum und die Volkshochschule holen die interaktive Ausstellung „Was' los, Deutschland!?“ nach Bochum. „Was' los, Deutschland!?“ …
