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Category: The Mediterranean

Getrennte Wege – geteilte Praktiken: Überlegungen zum kaiserzeitlichen Religionswandel in den Städten des römischen Reiches

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…

Describing ‘religion’ in European History Needs a New Concept

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….

Narrare la Fine delle Religioni / Narrating the End of Religions

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?

Memory, History and Religion

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.