Some Highlights from our Blog
As summer approaches, here are some recent highlights from our blog:
In his most recent piece on our blog, Jörg Rüpke reflects on the possibilities and limits of “Comparing World Religions”.
Our student assisstant Ahamd Ali recently interviewed Isabella Schwaderer. They talked about Indo-German Exchanges in Religion and Aesthetics with a particular focus on the Menaka Ballett.
Sara Keller, one of the project’s post-doctoral researchers, considered the “Seasons of Maritime Life“. She shows how “Port towns host unique forms of urban life, and they are often seen as particularly vibrant and dynamic cities”.

Engraving of Surat by Jakob van der Schley (1753-5). Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
Aileen Becker, one of the PhD students in the KFG, wrote about “Urban life in a Roman military camp” and asks, among other things, how urban life as a Roman soldier was.
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, published a fourth blog post in her series “Walking through the Streets of Calicut“. For those who would like to see some moving images of her trips, she recommends two videos:Hermann Gundert Museum, Thalassery, 2024 and A Journey to Chaliyam, Beypore and Kozhikode, 2022
Besides these blog posts, it has also been an especially busy few months for the KFG and its members. Other activities of the KFG include the workshop on “Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead” and our annual conference on “Making Boundaries. Performing Religion and Urbanity“. Still coming up later this semester is a summer school on “Performing Religion in the City – Urban Spaces, Interactions and Media“.
Ahmad Ali has also translated two blog posts into Hindi: एक बाजार का वर्णन कैसे किया जा सकता है? एक पहला प्रयास: कालीकट के “बिग बाजार” में भ्रमण (How can one describe a bazaar?) and शौचालय करते हैं शहरीकरण?! (Latrines make urbanity?!)
Members of the KFG also published a set of eight articles on the online magazine “Epoch”.

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urbrel (June 10, 2025). Some Highlights from our Blog. Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations. Retrieved November 6, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/142zh





