subprojects

• Under a Serpent's Spell
• Gods, Heroes and Cults in Bronze Age Central Asia
• Negotiating Co-existence of the Buddhism, Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism
• Interferences between Theology and the Sciences in the Formation and Diffusion of early Islamic cosmological Models
• Attractiveness through Ethics. Interactions between Jewish, Hellenistic-Roman and Christian Ethics in Antiquity
• Attractive Ethics
• The New Testament and Mystery Religions
• Changes in the West Phoenician "pantheon" due to cultural contacts with Greeks and Etruscans and the dominance of Carthage (6th-4th cent. B.C.)
• The Introduction of Liturgical Poetry into the Karaite Prayer Book
• The Reception of Hindu Religious Thought in Muslim India, with a Focus on Dārā Šikōh’s Majma‘ al-baḥrayn
• The Virgin Mary and the Expansion of Spanish Christianity in the Old and New Worlds (10th - 17th Century)
• Mediterranean Courts as Centers of Interfaith Encounters in the Middle Ages
• Doctrina Machumet
• The Conceptualization of a European History of Religions from a Comparative Perspective
• The Dialogical Dimension of Confucianism as a Religious Tradition
• Conceptualization of Religion in the Enlightenment
• Characteristics of the Concept "Jonggyo"(Religion) and the Network of its Related Concepts in Modern Korea.
• Genealogy of Religious Discourse in Modern Japan
• The Axial Age
• Society without "Religion"?
• Una sit religio
• Reconfigurations of the Order of Knowledge through Contact with "Western Learning" in Korea's Early Modern Period
• Purity and Impurity in the New Testament with Special Consideration of the "Cleansing of the Temple" and 1 Corinthians
• Diversity in German Jewry in the 19th century
• Gush Emunim and Hamas
• Sakralisierung und Desakralisierung in der arabisch-islamischen Sprachkultur im 20. Jahrhundert
• Säkularisierung und Weltlichkeit
• Die Bedeutung des Bibel- und Talmudkommentars Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi (Raschi) für das lateinische Christentum
• Zur Konstitution und Identitätslogik der klassischen normativen Systeme Chinas
• Studien zur interreligiösen und interkulturellen Genese der Sunna
• Jewish Warriors in Distant Lands
• Portuguese Encounters with Buddhism in the 16th and 17th Centuries
• The Impact of Central Eurasian Religious Traditions on European and Asian Religions
• Attraktion und Repulsion in religiösen Bildakten
• The Evolution of Religious Ideas as Symbolic Markers
• The Sacral Kingship as an Antetype to the Ancient Mystery Cults?
• Taoism, Meditation and the Wonders of Serenity
• Mission Encounter and the Formation of China’s Local Knowledge of Religion
• Buddhist Narratives in Central Asia and China
• The Scripture within the Scripture
• Re-creating Religious Tradition in Northern Iraq
• Osiris in the Religious Field in the later Roman Empire
• The Pahlavi-Literature in Its Context
• Borders of Orthodoxy and the Charm of False Learning in Korean Confucianism
• Institutionalisation of Islam in Germany
• Sensory Devotion and Inter-religious Encounters
• Nyang ral nyi ma 'od zer's (1124-1192) Codifications of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism
• The Dimensions of Sound in Islam
• Seeing, Touching, Holding, and Tasting Sacred Texts
• Senses and Metaphysics in Korean Confucianism
• The Hellenistic Buddhism of Asia
• Self-Reflection in the Transmission of the Rival’s Message
• A Comprehensive Survey on Babylonian Jewry in the Sasanian Era
• Traces of Monotheism in the Material Culture?
• When two Religious Traditions interact
• The Golden Legend
• Sinophilia, Historical Writing, and Political Propaganda in Eighteenth-century England
• Structure and Interpretation
• Religion of the Third Reich
• A Conceptual History of Religion in Ancient and Medieval China
• The Significance of Purity/Impurity as an Internal or External Attribution in Medieval Christian-Islamic Relations
• Religious Globalization
• Transformationen buddhistischer Selbstrepräsentationen im globalen Kontext
• Westrom und Ostrom
• Taming Demons
• Muslims as Heretics in Spanish Medieval Sources
• Orthodox Christian and Islamic Anti-Westernism from a Comparative Perspective
• Iskandar the Prophet
• How to exhibit Religion?
• Transformation of Traditional Indigenous Religions of Siberia under Buddhist and Esoteric Influence
• Discourse Comparison
• Angels’ Tongues and Witches’ Curses
• The Labyrinth of Jericho
• Process Anthropology
• The Visualization of the Dharma
• Diffusion of the Worship of Ancient Mesopotamian Deities along the Trade Routes
• Jerome, the "Old" Testament and the Jews
• Martyrs, Mystics, and Muslims in the Medieval World
• Typology of Religious Contacts in the Old Testament
• Freethinking in Arab and Islamic History
• The Development of the Concept of "Religion" from an Intercultural Perspective
• "Spiritual Confucianism"
• Kontinuität und Transformation antiker Religionen im Christentum
• "Those who say that everybody can be saved in his/her own Faith"
• Late Antique Religious Literacies between the Eastern Mediterranean and North-Africa
• Analysis of the Visual Language of the Buddhist Reliefs from Andhra, their Roman Elements and what Distinguishes them from Gandhara
• Dynamics of the Religious Field in the Context of Early Buddhism
• The Modern, the Anti-Modern and the Religious
• The Forming of Purity Conceptions in the Torah and in the Book of Ezekiel as Precondition of a Cultural and Religious Basic-difference in early Judaism
• Bon, Buddhism and the Coproduction of Religion in early Tibet
• Legendary Accounts and Buddhist Monasteries
• Trade Networks and the Early Transmission of Buddhism throughout and beyond South Asia
• Fate. History and Facets of a Religious Concept in Modern Times
• Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World
• Argument to the Senses in Post-Avicennian Dialectical Theory
• Patterns of Buddho-Confucian Interactions in Premodern Korea
• Komparatistik und Theorie der Religionsgeschichte
• A Place at the Altar
• The Theatrical Space of Beliefs
• Die Verfügbarkeit des Unverfügbaren
• Otherness and Seafarers’ Religion
• Immanence and Transcendence in the Aesthetic Representation of Sleep from Antiquity to Modern Times
• The Evolving of the Distinction between Transcendence and Immanence as triggered by Intra- and Interreligious Encounter
• Divine Transcendence and Immanence in Antiquity
• Creating an Incorporeal Empire
• Immanent Transcendence?
• Divine Kingship in Medieval Sri Lanka
• Sharing Common Figures, Notions and Concepts
• From Orthopraxy to Orthodoxy – Christian Influences on Yezidism in the Diaspora?
• Traditional Religions of the Desecularizing State
• Forced Migration and Emergent Identities in a Networked Age
• The Buddha and the Drum
• Uyghur Donors and Old Uyghur Texts
• Imperial Preceptor Chos rgyal ’Phags pa Bla ma as a Tantric Adept in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
• The Colours of Idolatry
• Forging Identity and Shifting Boundaries
• Hittite Texts and Greek Religion
• Shared Sacred Landscapes and Social Forgetting in Cyprus and Turkey
• The Concepts of “Tradition” and “Purity” in Interactions between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (late 16th – 17th centuries)
• Jews, Judaism, and their Imaginaries in Late Antique and Early Medieval Georgia
• Christian Systems of Knowledge and the Historiography of the Tagalog Religion
• Bar Hebraeus at the Mongol City of Marāgha
• Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq and Ādāb al-falāsifa in Context
• Sufi Tariqah in Contemporary Muslim World / Naqshbandiayh Sheikhs and Ideas in Western Sumatra
• The Desert Origins of God
• Religious Garment in the Jesuit Mission to Japan
• Intra-Religious Encounters and Formation of the Religious Field in the Post-Soviet Central Asia
• Reading Avicenna and Studying Plants in the Deccan
• Dhimma: The Status of Protection in a Mediterranean and Asian Context
• Plants, Magic & Medicine in the Indian Ocean and the Work of Garcia de Orta
• Mapping Modern Magic(k)
• A Place of One's Own
• Inter-Religious Contact in Early Modern Polish Livonia
• Buddhist Diversity and Inter-regional Connectivity in Southeast Asia
• Religious Encounters between Jews and Reformed Christians
• Evolution and Present Dynamics of Conflicting Religious Cosmologies in East Tibet
• Gender, Islamic Normativity and Cultural Critique in the Arab Region
• Debating Authorities
• Early Modern Visual Systems of Religious Encounter
• Entangled Rituals in Late Antiquity
• How to Negotiate “Sacrifice” and “Idolatry” in Religious Encounters
• Local Religion Meets the Ideals of the Elite
• Die Sprache der Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den 1980er Jahren
• The Conception of the Soul in Early Medieval China
• Mapping the Global Middle Ages Through Computer Simulation
• The Formation of Mahāyāna Buddhism
• Religiosität und religiöse Indifferenz als "zweite Natur"
• Early Buddhists and their Ascetic Others
• Demons, Evil, and Illness in the Babylonian Incantation Bowls
• Religious Conversions between Asia and Europe
• Unfulfilled Prophecy and False Prophets in the Old Testament and its Cultural Environment
• ‘You Are Twinned with the Spirit’
• Spice as Soteriology
• Religion and Identity in Hungary and the Iberian Peninsula
• The Emergence of Religious Pluralism in Ancient Rome
• The Mongol Empire and the History of Religion
• A History of Religious Contacts between Jewish and Muslim Mysticism throughout the Ages
• Vom „Dach der Welt“ nach Deutschland?
• Intertextuality in the Transmission of Rational Traditions in the Religious Science of Islam from Safavid Iran to Northern India in Early Modernity
• The Interchange of Western Christmas Practices with East Easian Religions
• ‘Religion’, ‘Religions’, ‘Religiosity’ and the Hindu-Catholic Encounter in Goa
• Monotheism and Globalization
• The Zoroastrian Cult and Doctrine of Fire
• Forging Faith
• Encounters of Christianity with Korean Religions during 1875 - 1915
• Syriac and Malayalam Sources
• The Prophecies of Agaton in the Context of Other Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions
• The Prohibition and the Survival of Christianity in East Asia in a Regional Perspective (17th to 19th Century)
• Meanings and Symbology of the Sense of Smell in some Zhiguai Texts
• Religious Transfer and Cultural Diversity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia and Beyond
• Jesuit Missions in South Asia during the 16th-18th century
• The Expansion of Buddhism in Central Asia
• Ghost Images of Modernity
• The Figure of the “Great Goddess” in the Near Eastern and Egyptian Contexts
• The Circulation of Divinities
• Politics and Religion Between the 8th and 11th Century in Central Asia, Tibet and Song China
• Mutual Adaptations and Borrowings in the Relationship Between Buddhism and Daoism in Medieval China
• Mantra and Dharani in the Religious Traditions of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism
• Römische Kultur, Religion, Literatur und Kunst im Zeitalter des Augustus
• Postsecularism in European and Asian Contexts
• Bio-Politics, Public Life and Sovereignty: Focault, Arendt and Agamben
• Biblical Prophet and Confucian Sages
• Rnying ma Transmission in the Tangut Empire
• Artistic Media as Religious Attractors
• The Power of Ritual
• The Cult of Astare in Egypt
• The Gospel of John and "the Jews"
• Formation and Diffusion of the Karaits
• Religious Pluralism and Contention in Chosŏn Korea
• Religion as a Culturo-Immunological System
• Othering, Otherness, and the Other in the Avestan Texts
• The Metaphorization of Sacrifice in Second Temple Judaism
• Die Macht der Freiheit
• Research Focus "Missionary Collections"