The work of KFG post-doctoral researcher Elisa Iori was recently covered on the Italian news website “Rainews”. She is working on patterns of transformation in the religious and urban landscape of the north-western regions of South Asia (Gandhāra) in a long-term perspective…
If I asked you to describe a mining city, the picture you will paint would be probably that of a dusty, smoky, ugly and polluted city dominated by a somehow melancholic atmosphere due to both the poor and dangerous conditions of the mining workers and the predictability of the city’s decline once resources are exhausted or extraction unviable…
In one of the Hindu myths, Shiva plays dice...
Excavations at the urban site of Barikot (Swat, NW...
We are interested in the connections between urbanity and religion.
This blog is connected to the DFG-funded Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (FOR 2779). We are based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University.
