Recent schol­ar­ship advo­cat­ing for glob­al reli­gious his­to­ry empha­sizes the need for reli­gious stud­ies to move beyond euro­cen­trism, to decon­struct ide­o­log­i­cal­ly charged and his­tor­i­cal­ly evolv­ing con­cepts, and to acknowl­edge the diverse (non-west­ern) play­ers and exchanges involved in the co-pro­duc­tion of knowl­edge on reli­gions. This work­shop seeks to con­tribute to this broad­er con­ver­sa­tion about the neces­si­ty of […]

The work­shop is ded­i­cat­ed to the emer­gence of inno­v­a­tive polit­i­cal con­cepts devel­oped in polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy, polit­i­cal the­o­ry and social activism in Africa over the past decades. The workshop’s goal is to recon­struct new con­cep­tions of the polit­i­cal that can pro­duc­tive­ly renew tra­di­tion­al forms of pol­i­tics and thus func­tion as tran­scul­tur­al cat­a­lysts for intra- and extra-African […]

The year 2025 marks the 1,700th anniver­sary of the First Ecu­meni­cal Coun­cil of Nicaea. To com­mem­o­rate the occa- sion, the Pon­tif­i­cal Gre­go­ri­an Uni­ver­si­ty and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mün­ster are organ­is­ing an inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence enti­tled “The Con­fes­sion of the Coun­cil of Nicaea: His­to­ry and The­ol­o­gy”. The aim of the con­fer­ence is to fos­ter dia­logue between his- […]