Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations Blog
Over the past two months, I spent two stints of two weeks in Munich, researching my project on urban burials in London and Munich, c. 1520 to 1870. While it is still difficult (and not particularly safe) to travel from Germany to England, I decided to focus on Munich
Interview with the KFG Fellow Prof. Dr. Ranjeeta Dutta on her research and work as part of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”. Interview conducted by Dr....
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it.
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?
In our most recent video interview, Susanne Rau, co-spokesperson of the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” discusses her career, the aims of the KFG and her own project. The interview was led by...
Already in the second millennium BCE polities in the regions around the Aegean Sea had reached a complexity that made coordination in the form of an ordered sequence of named months necessary. These are...
Junior Fellow and Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Sara Keller introduces herself in this short video interview.
An interview with our (former) fellow Dr. Christina Williamson, who reflects on her work, life at the MWK and the benefits of interdisciplinarity. Click on the image to watch the video.
— by Sara Keller A Unique City Walk In the framework of our recent City Walk, Erfurt revealed new thought-provoking places for our discussions on religion, urbanity and their reciprocal formations. This 4th “Religion...
The Western calendar tradition is dominated by the Roman antecedents in many respects. This holds true for the names of the months and their length, for the mechanisms of intercalation and last but not...
Call for Applications Reference number: KFG 05/2020 The Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG, “Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies”) „Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal Formations” at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt invites applications for Scholarships for Doctoral...
In one of the Hindu myths, Shiva plays dice with his consort Parvati and loses miserably. The oldest of the Pandavas brothers in the Mahābhārata even loses wife, family and kingdom all at once...
In 2019 The Guardian published an article with the title „Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent“. Initially, I was surprised to find a newspaper article about medieval nuns. My...
Our fellow Nora Lafi has just published an article related to her work at the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”, funded by the DFG (FOR 2279). The piece is entitled “Protecting the Medina...
At the heart of the response to the Coronavirus pandemic is a concern over physical contact and contagion translated into practices of social distancing. Many, if not all, spheres of life have been impacted...