Some Highlights from our Blog
Over the past three years, our blog has seen a wide range of articles, discussions, reviews, announcements and reports. Below,...
Over the past three years, our blog has seen a wide range of articles, discussions, reviews, announcements and reports. Below,...
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, and our former fellows Zoë Opačić and Katalin Szende have organised a lecture series of renowned speakers, who will trace the origins of civic participation in political thought and explore its forms of expression in written and visual media from Late Antiquity to the seventeenth century…
Our former fellow Supriya Chaudhuri has edited a volume on “Religion and the City in India” (Routledge) as well as...
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, introduces the research group in a short video presentation…
The photo exhibition “INDIA. Life around Water” / “INDIEN. Leben am Wasser”, curated by KFG post-doc Sara Keller is still available to view free of charge in the Augustinerkloster, Erfurt…
Religious practices, religious spaces, and religious times are part of urban diversity in today’s towns and cities. A 40-page picture book, grown out of a cooperation with Japanese universities in the framework of research on “Religion and Urbanity”, documents some impressions of that from visits to Tokyo and Kyoto…
The exhibition invites you to discover the many dimensions of water in South Asia. There, water is not only an important element of livelihood, it also carries crucial spiritual and religious significance…
In the winter semester 2020/21, KFG junior fellows Elisa Iori and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli organized a lecture series (Ringvorlesung) on the theme of “Religion and Urbanity in Time and Space”…
In the face of accelerating urbanisation and a return of religion to cities, a panel at the quinquennial world congress...
KFG Junior Fellow Martin Christ has just published a new monograph entitled Biographies of a Reformation. Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520-1635…
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The KFG’s associate fellow, Dr. Carmen González Gutiérrez, has won the prestigious “Leocadio Martín Mingorance Research Award”. The prize, given...
Our former fellow Jacques Lévy has just published a new book: Humanity: A Beginning. The Ethical Turn of the World-Society…
The KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” organized a lecture series at the university of Erfurt in the winter semester 2020/21 under the title “Religion and Urbanity in Time and Space”. You can now watch the lectures online.
Austin Collins, PhD student at the University of Durham and currently entering into a cotutelle with the University of Erfurt, has written a report on our most recent workshop: “Religious Guides to Urbanity”…