CfP: Urbanity and Religion in Film
Our former fellow Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati has opened a call for papers on the topic of “Urbanity and Religion in Film”…
Our former fellow Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati has opened a call for papers on the topic of “Urbanity and Religion in Film”…
While the topic of boundaries has received considerable scholarly attention, this conference focussed on the dynamic processes of making, maintaining and modifying or crossing boundaries and brought together scholars from various disciplines discussing case studies from Europe, the Mediterranean and South Asia from Antiquity to today…
After the workshop organised in 2021 at the Augustinerkloster in Erfurt, Sara Keller edited a volume entitled Accessing Water in the South Asian City. The book published by Primus and released this August contains an introduction by Sara Keller and 9 chapters in a broad range of disciplines by Julia A.B. Hegewald, Julia Shaw, Jutta Jain-Neubauer, Nicolas Morelle, Padma Sunder Joshi, Prakhar Vidyarthi, Akil Amiraly, Heather O’Leary and Laura Verdelli…
In 2025, there were 16 new entries in the database “Religion and Urbanity Online” so far. They cover the time span from antiquity to modernity, cities as different as Aleppo, Singapore and Sens, and approach religion and urbanity from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, literature studies and the history of religions. Enjoy reading!
The KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” has an ongoing collaboration with the research project “Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space”, which is part of the Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations”. Three workshops are an important part of the “Multilingualism” project…
The programme for the KFG’s annual conference “Making Boundaries. Performing Religion and Urbanity” (4-6 June 2025, Erfurt) has now been released!
Our former fellow Supriya Chaudhuri has just published a new book entitled “Envisioning the Indian City: Spaces of Encounter in Goa, Calcutta, Pondicherry and Chandigarh”. The volume was published with Jadavpur University Press…
This interview marks the beginning of a series in which Ahmad Ali will be engaging with scholars working on India at the Max-Weber-Kolleg. He is a student of Religionswissenschaft at the University of Erfurt, currently working on the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”.
Die eigene Arbeit am Manuskript einer globalen Religionsgeschichte unter dem Fokus von „Religion und Urbanität“ wirft nicht nur Fragen nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Vergleichs, dem Umgang mit objektsprachlichen und metasprachlichen Terminologien und der ganz praktischen Frage der Stoffauswahl auf. Sie macht auch die Frage nach dem Übergangsfeld von historischem Erzählen und Fiktion auf…
You can now read a conference report on the KFG’s last annual conference on “Religion, Urbanity and Trade. Processes of Mercantilisation in Urban Spaces”, written by Adina Eckart. The conference took place in Ettersburg from 13 to 15 November 2024 and was organized and convened by Susanne Rau and Heinrich Lang.
Critical studies of death (thanatology) have illuminated how human societies organize spaces of burial according to gender, race, class, sexual preference, and religion. Informed by these works “Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead” introduces how studies of death, especially of persons within groups excluded from systems of power in the living world, illuminate how the structures of power exceed life extending into the afterlives of the dead…
Over the past months, members of the “Religion and Urbanity” group have published articles in the online history magazine “Epoch”. The articles as well as an introduction by Susanne Rau and Klara-Maeve O’Reilly can now be accessed via a dedicated page…
The concept of “Performing Religion in the City – Urban Spaces, Interactions and Media” refers to the manner in which religious practices and expressions occur and are experienced in urban environments. Erfurt will serve as a starting point for this exploration. This approach examines the interaction between religion and urbanity and the role that urban spaces play in shaping religious identities and communities through the material and digital spaces…
The KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” is pleased to announce its 2025 annual conference on “Making Boundaries – Performing Religion and Urbanity”. We cordially invite paper proposals engaging with the various aspects drafted in the concept note…