Wettbewerb für Schüler*innen zu „Stadt und Religion“
Städte gelten heute als weltlich, während man Religion mit ihnen weniger verbindet. Schaut man genauer hin, dann finden sich aber auch heute noch religiöse Einflüsse auf Städte…
Städte gelten heute als weltlich, während man Religion mit ihnen weniger verbindet. Schaut man genauer hin, dann finden sich aber auch heute noch religiöse Einflüsse auf Städte…
The Max Weber Centre at the University of Erfurt is an Institute for Advanced Studies and hosts several interdisciplinary research...
Part two of the conversation between our fellows, Vanina Kopp and Richard Lim, on their research on public ludic games and their cultural and historical context. This time they are speaking about the urban environment of public spectacles, lay confraternities in France, Roman spectators and the fluidity of ludic acitivties and acts of devotion.
Part one of the podcast conversation between our fellows, Vanina Kopp and Richard Lim, on their research on public ludic games and their cultural and historical context.
Kozhikode, India. The workshop is a result of the collaboration between the PG & Research Department of Farook College and the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” of the Max Weber Centre, Erfurt, Germany. The days consist of discussion sessions, talks and presentations…
Unweit des Nationalparks Hainich gelegen, lädt das thüringische Mühlhausen mit seinen zahlreichen gotischen Kirchen ein. Von diesen ist die Marienkirche mitten im Herzen der Stadt die größte und wird auch im übrigen Thüringen nur vom Erfurter Dom an Größe übertroffen. Was aber hat eine Kirche mit Urbanität zu tun?
The KFG’s peer-reviewed, open access database, published by De Gruyter and edited by Jörg Rüpke and Susanne Rau, has been updated with seven new articles…
The following considerations have arisen in the context of research into the religious and social contexts of religious writing around 1300. The search for “co-spatiality,” for “equality in space”, has its roots in socio-religious conflicts in the city of Paris, which in the first two decades of the fourteenth century led to the use of state and ecclesiastical power, including force and violence, by the Inquisition…
All videos of the lecture series “Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone” are now free to watch....
Ganz in der Nähe des Max-Weber-Kollegs befindet sich ein monumentales Graffiti an einer Hauswand. Es handelt sich um von Fußballfans gestaltete oder möglicherweise sogar von Sportfunktionären in Auftrag gegebene Kunst. Um Fußball zu verherrlichen, ruft das Graffiti unterschiedliche kulturelle Vorstellungen auf. Auf dem Weg zur Arbeit ist es morgens möglich, über „Religion und Urbanität“ zu stolpern. Was hat dieses Graffiti mit der Forschungsgruppe zu tun?
Interested students, postdocs and archivists can now register for the international summer school which the KFG UrbRel co-organises in the summer of 2022. The 8-day program is organised by Katalin Szende (CEU Budapes/Vienna), Zoe Opacic (Birkbeck College London) and Susanne Rau (KFG RelUrb, Erfurt University). This summer school is a follow-up of the online lecture series with the same title which took place in autumn 2021.
The KFG’s database “Religion and Urbanity Online” continues to be filled with new research and overview articles. All articles are open access and have been peer reviewed…
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…
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, introduces the research group in a short video presentation…