Soundscape: Anger and its Carillon
ut also geography, sociology, philosophy and psychology drew particularly attention to sound and the acoustic environment…
ut also geography, sociology, philosophy and psychology drew particularly attention to sound and the acoustic environment…
Städte gelten heute als weltlich, während man Religion mit ihnen weniger verbindet. Schaut man genauer hin, dann finden sich aber auch heute noch religiöse Einflüsse auf Städte…
Impressions of the historical interplay of religious infrastructures, local geographies and trade networks in Chaliyam, Beypore and Kozhikode on the Malabar coast in India. The footage was filmed in March 2022 by Susanne Rau from Erfurt University as she travelled the Malabar coast…
Can we perceive Erfurt’s urbanity on its squares? In this hope, we hunted for perceptible atmospheres, attitudes and aspirations while other Erfurters went shopping, picked up their children or enjoyed the sun. The working hypothesis of our research group on “Religion and Urbanity” is that urbanity1 can be defined as a “way of life that emerges because of the size, density, diversity, mobility, instability, and transparency of a settlement or the people living there” (Rau 2020).2
The Max Weber Centre at the University of Erfurt is an Institute for Advanced Studies and hosts several interdisciplinary research...
Dr. Martin Christ, post-doctoral researcher with the UrbRel research group, has received the Book Award of the Reformation Research Consortium (RefoRC) for his monograph “Biographies of a Reformation Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, c. 1520-1635”, published by Oxford University Press….
Be it Mecca, the Vatican City, Varanasi, or Amritsar: even while cities acquire the status of sacrality particular to a specific religious group, they continue to harbour pronounced inter- and intra-religious dynamics within and outside their circumscribed boundaries. Such phenomena require a multiscalar and intersectional lens of analysis…
Throughout most of my time as a doctoral student, I have been living and studying in the United Kingdom, where I am in a co-tutelle arrangement with Durham University. Most of this time has also unfortunately been spent under travel restrictions, which made it difficult to travel from the United Kingdom to mainland Europe…
Part two of the conversation between our fellows, Vanina Kopp and Richard Lim, on their research on public ludic games and their cultural and historical context. This time they are speaking about the urban environment of public spectacles, lay confraternities in France, Roman spectators and the fluidity of ludic acitivties and acts of devotion.
The title of this post is an outspokenly playful plagiarism of the English translation of Freud’s Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1930), i.e., “Civilization and Its Discontents”. Likewise, the story of my developing spatial-critical approach to the historical study of urban religion can be said to have started with a plagiarism. What is a plagiarism, though? And is it so bad?
Part one of the podcast conversation between our fellows, Vanina Kopp and Richard Lim, on their research on public ludic games and their cultural and historical context.
The spokesperson of the UrbRel research group Susanne Rau spent the past weeks on a research trip to Kozhikode in India. Apart from co-organising the Workshop “Doing Spatial History” with the recent co-operation partners at Farook College, Kozhikode, she also contributed to the Sixth Kerala History Congress which took place in Tirurangadi…
How do we live together in dense urban spaces? This is the big question – in today’s urbanised world as well as in historical urban networks. Evidently, people have given very different answers to that question on sunny places and in dark shelters. Ways of living urban lives change quickly across time or groups. This is what our workshop seeks to explore.
The UrbRel research goup has openend a call for early career researchers from Ukraine.
Kozhikode, India. The workshop is a result of the collaboration between the PG & Research Department of Farook College and the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” of the Max Weber Centre, Erfurt, Germany. The days consist of discussion sessions, talks and presentations…