CERES researchers, together with colleagues from museums and other universities, are studying the material dimension of cultural and religious contacts …
Her current project, A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome, demonstrates that priestesses had a vibrant and vivid …
After the breakdown of the Chinese Empire in the early 20th century, liberalism and marxism as the two main currents …
Latin Christianity is not generally understood as tolerant. On the contrary the history of the crusades and the inquisition have …
This project is perceived as part of a broader direction of reassessment of the socio-cultural life of the diverse religious …
The project will focus on concepts in classical Chinese texts which prima facie belong into the word field of religion. …
In a multi-cultural environment and especially in conditions of empire, pilgrimage can be a tool for individuals and groups to …
Not even a single text remains from the flourishing Buddhist culture in Andhra. Today, only the stones survive. The project …
Angels’ Tongues and Witches’ Curses discusses the development of Jewish magical and mystical traditions in the ancient world (ca. 250 …
This project will explore the modes and patterns of “argument to the senses” (ATS) in the proto- and early ādāb …
In the Roman Empire, Judaism and Christianity encountered a general fascination for religious movements from the East. It was from …
During the research period from June 2008 through to May 2009, the main focus will be on the question of …
Die okzidentale Metaphysik des Bildes, die aus verschiedenen religiösen Konfliktfeldern –Bilderkult und Verwerfung der Götterbilder im antiken Mittelmeerraum, Reliquien- und …
The project focuses on the dialogical engagement of the West Syrian Maphrian, Gregory Barhebraeus (1226-1286CE), with Islamic philosophy; an engagement …
This project seeks to research the mutual coproductions of Buddhism and Bon in early Tibet. Broadly speaking, it takes as …
The aim of the project is to analyze concepts of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in 16th century Korean Confucianism. Crucial questions …
This project attempts to look at Buddhist diversity and inter-regional religious connectivity in Southeast Asia through the lens of Chinese …
In the propagation and spread of Buddhism throughout Asia, narratives in the form of ‘stories’ played an eminent role, both …
This book-project, tentatively entitled 'Global Catholic Missions and the Expansion of Europe, 1500-1800', will analyze the relationship between the maritime …
The aforementioned phenomena have yet to be sufficiently investigated in terms of historical evolution and sociological structures, so the project …
The term jonggyo (religion) was first used in Korea in the late 19th century when the Joseon government signed trade …
The project analyzes transcendent and semi-transcendent beings which were part of the Philippine mythology in pre-colonial times. It is based …
The project focusses on intersections and interactions between European and Indian notions of transcendence and immanence through the lens of …
Configurations of religion(s) in colonial India are not only intrinsically connected to newly created political and legal frameworks, but also …
Many types of demons, both named and unnamed, appear as threats to human beings in the inscriptions on the Babylonian …
This project will analyse a particular process of inter-religious contact that took place in the broad lands of Islam, from …
Das Projekt schlägt eine genuin philosophische Variante des Säkularisierungsbegriffs vor, die von den üblichen Verwendungsweisen des Begriffs keineswegs abgedeckt wird, …
Im Rahmen eines Projekts zur Geschichte der Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung in Deutschland soll die Semantik der „Rajneesh-Times Deutschland", des zentralen Presseorgans der …
Das Projekt nähert sich dem Phänomen Religion aus einer kommunikationstheoretischen Perspektive. Im Anschluss an Erkenntnisse der jüngeren Religionsforschung wird Religion …
This project is being undertaken in order to contextualize ancient Mesopotamian religion in the broader geographical and chronological framework of …
This methodological project confronts longstanding and fundamental critiques of comparison in Religious Studies, constructively engages with major objections, and argues …
Object of investigation is the Jewish self-conception in the 19th century, which was developed in the described field of conflict …
Divine kingship was an influential and widespread trope across medieval southern Asia. My project examines literary representations of Sri Lankan …
The application to antiquity of the study of the evolving of the distinction between immanence and transcendence as triggered by …
A critical edition of the Latin text on the basis of the relatively numerous manuscripts as well as the two …
The project will focus on the promotion of a religious "range of products" that early Buddhists offered to a competitive …
The research project examines the dialogic influence of ascetic others, in particular the Jain other, on the early Buddhist monastic …
The project shall investigate visual strategies elaborated in early modern Europe in order to facilitate communication between Christians and non-Christians …
The regular, sometimes daily ritual for divine cult statues in Egypt, Greece and other regions of the ancient Mediterranean goes …
The project concentrates on the evolution and present dynamics of two conflicting religious cosmologies in East Tibet: the Tibetan indigenous …
In cultural studies the human necessity to conceive the course of life as being directed by some kind of divine …
This project investigates the centrality of religion in refugees' integration into German society, focusing on the controversy of recent mass …
The research to be carried out during the project will continue on-going investigations into the interaction between the Germanic and …
There is a good deal of research in this field, both in Arabic and in European languages. This research output …
The Yezidi religious tradition, both sacred texts and priestly learning, has been transmitted orally in a non- or semi-literate milieu …
Focusing on issues of gender and sexual difference as schemes for reconfiguring Islamic normativity, the project studies the shaping of …
The research topic of this project is the examination of the representations of the gods and supernatural mixed beings of …
First, the Gush Emunim and Hamas movements will be analyzed independently regarding their structural, ideological, and strategic characteristics as well …
Understanding of the religions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia has been transformed over the last 150 years by …
In the 16th century, when the Jesuits first reached South India, they discovered that its religious landscape was too …
During the period of the fellowship I was hoping to deepen my research focus on "Religion and Art? Contemporary Interpretations …
Despite the fact that our knowledge has increased with the help of somnology about how one third of our …
Architecture, especially religious architecture, is a means to negotiate the threshold between the Profane and the Sacred, between immanence and …
’Phags pa bla ma Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1235-1280), the first Imperial Preceptor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), was …
This research project deals with the institutional transformations that Islam is undergoing in Germany. The study focuses on several empirical …
The Eastern shores of the Baltic Sea have always been a borderland region between the influences of different political, cultural …
This project is a long-term research endeavor whose chief aim is to shed light on the sources, structure, function, and …
The main aim of this project is to analyze the role of official and non-official Turkish Islamic organizations in the …
Alexander the Great, conqueror, second Achilles and self-proclaimed son of a god, is one of the most prominent common heroes …
The project has three aims: a) Jerome and Jewish traditions in literature since around 1850 The subject "Jerome and the …
This project will examine Jewish, Christian, and Muslim imaginings about the ten lost tribes in conjunction with the development of …
Jewish communities have existed on Georgian territory since the turn of the first and second centuries AD. Soon thereafter, in …
Es ist die Absicht des Projekts, anhand der Arbeiten der anderen Teilprojekte des Internationalen Kollegs tertia comparationis zu erarbeiten, auf …
Das politisch-religiöse Konzept des Christentums mit all seinen Anschlußoptionen, die in verschiedenen Epochen zunächst der europäischen Geschichte dem gesellschaftlichen und …
"Late Antique Religious Literacies between the Eastern Mediterranean and North-Africa" explores how the use of books as vehicles of ideas …
This research project aims at investigating the role of pictorial representations of Buddhist legendary accounts as possible conveyors of information …
The research project will focus on the interaction between the spheres of popular religiosity and the religion defined and controlled …
While the great religious, philosophical and narrative works produced in India are widely known for the most part, and have …
For a few decades a global discourse of contemporaneous self-designated 'magicians' is flourishing (more or less) below the …
The discipline of medieval French literature has been slower than others (compared to other European languages or to fields other …
The place of martyrdom within late medieval Latin Christianity has received relatively little attention. Scholars such as James Ryan have …
Arguably, since ancient times the Mediterranean is an area in which different religions have made mutual contact with unprecedented intensity. …
This project situates the beginning of China's modern conception of "religion" in the context of the nineteenth-century mission encounter. Rather …
When the Iberian Peninsula became part of the Umayyad Caliphate in the 8th century, the response to Islam by …
Apart from being the most powerful state formation (mahājanapada) in the early historic period, the Magadha region (situated in south …
Exploring texts of Nyang ral nyi ma 'od zer's seminal bKa' brgyad bde gshegs 'dus pa (Eightfold Buddha Word, …
Anti-Westernism, both in its historical and contemporary forms, is a widespread and multi-dimensional phenomenon with a variety of manifestations (e.g., …
My research project with the KHK investigates the cult of and discourses about Osiris in the Later Roman empire as …
The project deals with an interdisciplinary study of the concept of "Othering, Otherness and the Other" in Avestan texts, especially …
The two projects – dealing with otherness in interreligious encounters and with religion in maritime cultures – represent distinct ends …
The first phase of the project will be dedicated to a case study under the working title "Experienced or forced …
Luís de Camões – a debaucher, Indian Ocean rover, and Renaissance poet - was among Orta's close friends in Goa, …
The imperial and religious projects of the Portuguese in early modern Asia brought about some of the earliest sustained contacts …
Inspired by the religious dynamics model formulated by the KHK and drawing on work in new materialism, actor-network-theory, and science …
This research project will deal with purity concepts and their relevance for identity construction in the New Testament. Methodologically it …
My research studies the transformation of Yezidi oral religious tradition into a bookish religion in Northern Iraq, triggered by the …
To avoid the restricted perspective that the western derived concept of religion is apt to create, this project will attempt …
Discussions and disputes about the reality, role and importance of analytic constructs such as ‘world-view’, ‘religious tradition’, or ‘culture’ seem …
Drawing the basic lines of the project ‘Religion of the Third Reich’, one will soon encounter the discussion whether the …
This proposed research project is part of a larger ethnographic project on recent so-called mass conversions of Iranian refugees to …
Hebrew anti-Christian polemical literature represents a rather rigid genre, most of the texts being written as polemical compendia where repeating …
This project aims to analyse the use of garments in the early-modern Jesuit mission in Japan (1549-1639), both in official …
In dem Projekt werden semantische und strukturelle Prozesse der religiösen Globalisierung in ihrer Wechselwirkung miteinander untersucht. Dabei kommt - unter …
After Buddhism and Confucianism were introduced to the Korean peninsula around the same time they coexisted peacefully for about a …
Das beantragte Teilprojekt soll die Wechselwirkungen des Säkularen und Sakralen in der arabischen Sprachkultur im 20. Jahrhundert behandeln. Ausgangspunkt ist …
This project focuses on ritualizations of scriptures that effect the senses of sight, touch, and taste, or, at least, kiss. …
My research will focus on reading Umayyah’s poems and its treatment by early Muslim authors in the formative period of …
The aim of the project is to analyze the place and role of senses in the philosophical framework of Confucian …
Sensory Devotion and Inter-religious Encounters: Shared Festivals in Kerala (South India) seeks to probe into the nature of multi-culturalism in …
This project develops the concept of social forgetting by examining its relation with changing sacred landscapes. The researcher enquires into …
This project explores the question of continuity in the Abrahamic religious traditions and their common heritage. Therefore, Judaism, Christianity and …
In 1918, J.M. Bullock, who was the first person to attempt a “biographical bibliography” of Thomas Gordon (ca.1692-1750), complained that …
Taking the "invention" of "religion" in the middle of the 19th century as the point of departure, it is necessary …
A characteristic feature of Buddhism and Hinduism practised in the tantric mode is a complex metaphorical discourse, much of which …
The project is directed at the design of an integrated theory of action and language, using the paradigm of interpretation …
Die leitende Hypothese, von der das Projekt zur Interkulturalität der Sunna ausgehen soll, nimmt ebenfalls eine bereits der Entstehung des …
The problem of studying the syncretistic religious traditions deals with transferring and preserving of ancient knowledge in Islamic mystical institutions, …
In 1853, American warships appeared off the coast of Japan. Ultimately, the Americans forced the Japanese government to sign a …
Taoism has always emphasized mental serenity and has maintained that good effects will come about from it. To be serene …
Research will focus firstly on the flaws of Jaspers' original concept, such as its essentialism, its teleological/metaphysical conception of mind, …
The research project deals with a specific case of religious encounter: the one between shamanism and Buddhism in the Himalayan …
In 1741, a bowdlerized version of Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples …
Traditional religion in China centered on offerings and sacrifice made to gods and ancestors, and the dead were assumed to …
Situated on the boundary between Western and Eastern Christianity and bordering the territories controlled by the Ottomans, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was …
This research project aims to study the experience, material culture, and social background of the cultic practices of the peoples …
The project sets out to analyze the development of the concept of "religion" in Early Modern Europe onwards and its …
Confucianism has already been widely regarded as a religious tradition and taught at Western, if not only American, universities. But …
The Dimensions of Sound in Islam – Travelling Aesthetics explores the meanings and functions the Islamic religion ascribes to the …
During my stay at KHK I will work on the emergence and function of religious ideas as symbolic markers. I …
The project is connected to a new edition, (English) translation and extensive commentary of the “Records of the Western Regions” …
There have been many attempts at explaining the origin, formation and early development of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Often they are characterized …
The project intends to a) describe and to analyze the purity conceptions in the Torah and in the Book of …
On the basis of the fact that different traditions coincide in the Golden Legend while apocryphal literature of the Old …
The methodological orientation of this work takes the intercourse between Hellenism and Buddhism as a reciprocal, synchronic process of conversion …
My research project focuses on the main Central Eurasian religious ideas, especially in connection to the comitatus relationship (the sociopolitical …
The research aims to unravel the liturgical setting of Karaite liturgical poems before and simultaneously with the redaction of the …
The Labyrinth of Jericho: Between Jews and Christians, Image and Interpretation explores the widespread Medieval and early Modern manuscript tradition …
The present research analyzes and compares various types of sacrificial metaphors found in the Hebrew Bible (especially Psalms and Prophets) …
With the growing awareness of the importance of ‘religion’ in the modern world, the debate about this complex notion becomes …
This project does not exclusively aim to analyze motifs of mystery religions in the New Testament with regard to their …
The project aims to find out the motives of Zoroastrian priests in their literary production in the first centuries of …
The process of translation of Sanskrit sources into Persian must be reckoned among the great cross-cultural enterprises of mankind. It …
Das vorliegende Forschungsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit dem Postulat einer Interdependenz zwischen dem sakralen Königtum und antiken Mysterienkulten, bei denen einer …
This research project intends to contribute to a better approach to the formation and development of the so-called “Buddho-Taoist” texts …
In the course of this project central conditions and parameters of the transformation process outlined above will be analyzed in …
This project examines the theatrical spaces of holy graves in Shi'a Islam and Roman Catholic Christianity and the rituals connected …
This project examines the dynamics of Christian and non-Christian identities as they were expressed through the Virgin Mary in the …
It is remarkable, that especially from Jainism an image tradition originated, since it was said to be an ascetic order, …
The project sets out to analyze the changes within the iconographic symbol system in Israel/ Palestine between the time of …
This project addresses historical and economic contexts for the movement of Buddhism across geographical and cultural boundaries between South Asia …
Over the second half of the twentieth century Buddhism and Christianity developed from limitedly tolerated practices that contradicted Soviet modernity …
The project aims at studying the post-Soviet transformation of indigenous religious traditions in Tuva and Altai republics of Russian Federation. …
Dieses Projekt will diese Lücke schließen. Es untersucht die Transformationsprozesse in der Selbstreflexion und der Selbstrepräsentation der Buddhisten Südostasiens während …
As part of the project, a synopsis of the different literary constellations of religious contacts in the Old Testament will …
The main task of the project is the phenomenological description of a basic term used in occidental strategies of argumentation …
The planned thorough investigation into the historical development of snake symbolism and snake cults in the Ancient Near East with …
Which prophetical declarations and advices will hold true? Prophecy was an important transcultural aspect of politics and power struggles in …
As a Turkic speaking tribe, the Uyghurs gradually converted to Buddhism after their migration from Mongolia into the Eastern Tianshan …
During these eleven centuries, Muslim theology, philosophy, mysticism, and jurisprudence had undergone enormous changes. Many schools and sects had emerged …
Ādāb al-falāsifa, an anthology of gnomic wisdom attributed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 260/973) ranks among the most successful …
This project deals with a less known Christian non-canonical writing, mainly known as Revelation of the Magi (Landau 2008). The …
