Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations Blog
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...
On the 30th of June 2020, the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” has scheduled its next city walk, in which we explore religion and urbanity in Erfurt, where the KFG is based. We...
In Religious Studies, the ‘spatial turn’ as advanced by Kim Knott has rapidly been taken up by other scholars who have given her ‘spatial analysis’ of ‘the location of religion’ a programmatic role. More...
European travelers in India before the circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama in 1498 are a rare sight, but they do exist. While most pilgrims just claimed to have...
Jerusalem is one of the places, where the interactions of religion and urbanity can be seen most clearly. This is the case for the real city, but also imaginary versions of it. One of...
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...
In September 1652, Petrus Overier came to Leipzig. His life had been an itinerant one and he had been to many places in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, as Germany was...
A new book ‘Urban Religion: A Historical Approach to Urban Growth and Religious Change’ is the title of the book that I have published a few weeks ago (de Gruyter, 2020). It is the...
I was sitting on the Palatine hill for two full days in the burning August sun, but was somehow still physically able to admire the huge Mater Magna temple complex as well as the...
28 March 2020 Sacred water can be anywhere. That is what seems to emerge from the flow of information currently circulating on handwashing and purification tips. Against the current dramatic global sanitary crisis, this...