• Global Bible: Legacies of (Post-)Colonial Bible Translations in the Arctic, Australia/Oceania and West Africa

    Bibel­mu­se­um der Uni­ver­sität Mün­ster Pfer­de­gasse 1, Mün­ster, Nor­drhein-West­falen, Ger­many

    In the past two years, the Glob­al Bible Project research team has ded­i­cat­ed itself inten­sive­ly to a crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tion of British and Ger­man con­tri­bu­tions to the cre­ation of a glob­al Bible, i.e. the attempt to trans­late the Bible into all lan­guages of the world in the nine­teenth to ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­turies. The research team has […]

  • Just hit the follow button! — Religious influencers in social media (and their impact beyond)

    hybrid, Uni­ver­sität Erfurt Alfred-Weber Platz 4, Erfurt, Ger­many

    Gatsvor­trag (Hybrid) im Rah­men der “Mon­day Lec­tures in Reli­gious, Social and Cul­tur­al Stud­ies” For most peo­ple, social media now deter­mines what infor­ma­tion reach­es us, how we main­tain social rela­tion­ships, and how we con­struct our world. Reli­gious con­tent on social media is also becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant with regard to the reli­gious field. Over the past few […]

  • Vom Untergang zur Erneuerung – Thesen zur Funktion von Dystopien

    online

    Vor­tra­gende: Prof. Dr. Eva Mar­lene Haustein­er, FAU Erlan­gen-Nürn­berg Mod­er­a­tion: Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer, FAU Erlan­gen-Nürn­berg Teil des Bay­erischen Inter­re­ligiösen Kol­leg 2025/2026 Rah­men­the­ma: Die schön­sten Wel­tun­tergänge? Zukun­ftsszenar­ien, Utopi­en und Dystopi­en   Diese Ver­anstal­tung find­et online statt. Gäste sind gerne ein­ge­laden dig­i­tal daran teilzunehmen. Link zur Videokon­ferenz: https://relilab.org/live

  • Missionaries, Socialism, and Ethnocentrism: Global Protestantism and Ethical Dilemmas in Revolutionary Ethiopia

    Mar­tin-Luther-Uni­ver­sität Halle-Wit­ten­berg Hal­lis­ch­er Saal, Uni­ver­sität­sring 5„ Halle (Saale), Deutsch­land

    Glob­al His­to­ries Lec­tures on Cris­tian­i­ty and Reli­gions This lec­ture stud­ies how Cold War-era Protes­tant mis­sion work became entan­gled with rev­o­lu­tion­ary pol­i­tics and eth­nona­tion­al­ist move­ments in Africa. Focus­ing on the the­olo­gian, schol­ar of Islam, mis­sion­ary, and polit­i­cal cam­paign­er Gun­nar Has­sel­blatt (1928–1997), the lec­ture traces transna­tion­al flows between Social­ist Ethiopia and West Berlin, carv­ing out the eth­i­cal […]

  • Why Go Public? — ReliSciCom Workshop Series 2026

    online via Zoom

    What is the point of your PhD? What is the point of being an expert? How can you demon­strate your knowl­edge to poten­tial employ­ers both inside and out­side acad­e­mia? This series of work­shops will help you to artic­u­late the impor­tance of well-researched social sci­en­tif­ic infor­ma­tion and direct­ly con­tribute to knowl­edge cre­ation, includ­ing through social media […]

  • Satanismus in der DDR

    Gastvor­trag von Alexan­der Rosen­stein Im Vor­trag „Satanis­mus in der DDR“ beschreibt Alexan­der Rosen­stein wie die Stasi das Phänomen „Satanis­mus“ in der Spät­phase der DDR kon­stru­ierte, deutete und bear­beit­ete. Aus­ge­hend von aktenkundlichen Fällen jugend­kul­tureller Gren­züber­schre­itun­gen der Heavy-Met­al- und Grufti-Szene wird aufgezeigt, welche Wis­sens­bestände, Deu­tungsmuster und bürokratis­chen Abläufe den Umgang der Behör­den mit der Erschei­n­ung und den […]

  • Gelassenheit: Heidegger und ostasiatische Weisheitslehren

    Cam­pus Uni­ver­sität Erfurt, Forschungs­bau (C19) Nord­häuser­str. 63, 99089 Erfurt

    Teil der Ver­stanstal­tungsrei­he “Mon­day Lec­tures in Reli­gious, Social and Cul­tur­al Sud­ies” der Uni­veristät Erfurt

  • A convert and his daughters: What did it mean to be “Jewish” or “Muslim” in 12th-century Baghdad?

    Philipps-Uni­ver­sität Mar­burg Lah­n­tor 3, Mar­burg, Deutsch­land

    Mul­ti­ple sto­ries are told about the con­ver­sion to Islam of a Jew­ish physi­cian, Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (physi­cian, ca. 1077-ca. 1165). The basics seem clear: the biog­ra­phers agree that he was at first Jew­ish and became Mus­lim after he was already estab­lished at the ruler’s court. But what was it that made him “Jew­ish” before­hand and […]

  • Frei gewählt – unfrei gelebt? Islamistische Zukunftsszenarien in französischen Romanen

    online

    Vor­tra­gende: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursu­la Hen­nigfeld, Hein­rich-Heine-Uni­ver­sität Düs­sel­dorf Mod­er­a­tion: Ramy Abdin M.A., FAU Erlan­gen-Nürn­berg Teil des Bay­erischen Inter­re­ligiösen Kol­leg 2025/2026 Rah­men­the­ma: Die schön­sten Wel­tun­tergänge? Zukun­ftsszenar­ien, Utopi­en und Dystopi­en   Diese Ver­anstal­tung find­et online statt. Gäste sind gerne ein­ge­laden dig­i­tal daran teilzunehmen. Link zur Videokon­ferenz: https://relilab.org/live

  • Engaging the Secular: Conceptions of the Future in Modern Chinese Buddhism (Ming-Feng Wu)

    CERES-Palais, Raum “Ruhrpott” (4.13)

    CERES Forschungskol­lo­qui­um This study explores how mod­ern Chi­nese Bud­dhism craft­ed its vision of the future in the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry by reimag­in­ing the sec­u­lar realm. Instead of view­ing the sec­u­lar as a fixed enti­ty to be accept­ed or reject­ed, the Chi­nese Bud­dhist com­mu­ni­ty rede­fined its sig­nif­i­cance through its engage­ment with the “mun­dane world.” The research […]