• 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 […]

  • Religious and Secular Worldmaking. Narrative Cultures and the Perception of Differences.

    C19 – Forschungs­bau “Welt­beziehun­gen”, Sem­i­nar­raum (EG) (Cam­pus)

    Do reli­gious and sec­u­lar peo­ple expe­ri­ence the world dif­fer­ent­ly? This lec­ture dis­cuss­es ear­ly 19th-cen­tu­ry emi­grant nar­ra­tive cul­tures as prac­tices of world­mak­ing. Migrat­ing to North Amer­i­ca not to dis­cov­er but to cre­ate a new world, social reform­ers such as rad­i­cal pietists, social­ists, and ear­ly com­mu­nists were unit­ed by the utopi­an spir­it of their time. Yet in […]

  • Buchpräsentation: Religionswissenschaft — Aktuelle Annäherungen

    Die Ver­anstal­tung find­et online über Zoom statt

    What does the study of religion\s look like today? This new­ly pub­lished vol­ume offers a vibrant snap­shot of the field through twen­ty-sev­en acces­si­ble chap­ters that explore every­thing from indige­nous reli­gious dis­cours­es and decolo­nial cri­tique to media, rit­u­al, and the trans­for­ma­tion of reli­gious land­scapes. We ask: How can you use this book in teach­ing about the­o­ries […]

  • 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 […]