Pilgrimage as Landscapes of Death: Infrastructures, Stampede and Ethnocracy. Ruminations in the aftermath of the Meron catastrophe in Israel
On April 30, 2021 the annual festival (Hebrew: Hillula)...
On April 30, 2021 the annual festival (Hebrew: Hillula)...
Religion wurde im Laufe der Kaiserzeit in den ans Mittelmeer grenzenden Regionen Afrikas, Asiens und Europas immer wichtiger. Verantwortlich dafür werden immer wieder bestimmte (aber immer wieder anders gruppierte) Symbol- und Glaubenssysteme gemacht…
Religion has played an important role in European history in a number of ways. On the one hand, as a phenomenon it shaped individual regions as religious and cultural areas and often influenced the designation of larger territories (e. g. ‘Catholic Europe’) as well as individual regions or places determined by religious difference….
Doing history means putting oneself in the shoes of women and men of the past without forgetting that we are women and men of the present and therefore exercising both imagination and criticism to bridge a gap. Doing history also implies telling stories…
When did Christianity end? Was it with the Reformation, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and the end of the unity of the Church? Was it when rates of church membership fell below fifty percent in some important European cities? Or is Christianity still lingering on – or on a global rise?
Already in the second millennium BCE polities in the...
The Western calendar tradition is dominated by the Roman...
At the heart of the response to the Coronavirus...
To give “urban religion” a historical dimension that reaches beyond “modernity” (whatever that is) means to talk about religious change. But is religion a subject adapted to narratives of change in the face of so many religious claims about unchangeability? This contribution brings together some proposals and observations on historicizing religion.
I was sitting on the Palatine hill for two...