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Colourful is the new Black: Discovering the Religious Diversity of the Ruhr Area with Volkhard Krech

In the video clips of the web series THE KHK ON FILM, Bochum's Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK) Dynamics in the …

Eine untote Idee vom Tod: Vortrag widmet sich der 3000jährigen Geschichte einer Seelenvorstellung

Nach dem Blick auf die Tiersymbolik der altorientalischen Welt und der religiös superbunten Landschaft des Ruhrgebiets wird der nächste Vortrag …

Vom Ruhrpott zur Seidenstraße: Neue Online Ringvorlesung zu Religionskontakten

Am Montag, den 20. Dezember 2021, geht es los mit der neuen Ringvorlesung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte …

New Collaborative Research Center sees the Light of the Day

Yesterday evening the time had come: The new Collaborative Research Center "Metaphors of Religion: Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use" saw …

Former KHK Fellow visits BuddhistRoad Project

Johan Elverskog is a professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and an internationally renowned expert …

Academic Unboxings: A Missionary Collection unwrapped

Wide eyes, amazed faces, quick comments: For years, the genre of unboxing video clips has enjoyed great popularity on various …

In Colour and on Screen: KHK started Series of Video Clips

Admittedly, it started pouring down while shooting the first video clip for the new series "The KHK on Film". Not …

Children's Book: How the Stars got into the Sky

How was world created? Many religious traditions have their own answers to this question, and they are told in this …

Ruhr-Universität Bochum interviews Volkhard Krech

Anything but out of date: Under the title “Mehr als dicke Bücher” (More than voluminous books) the Ruhr-Universität Bochum portrays …

KHK in the Final: Last Conference of the Research Project held online

After over twelve years of research, more than 150 invited international research fellows and over 200 events that were organised, …