Demons, Evil, and Illness in the Babylonian Incantation Bowls
Many types of demons, both named and unnamed, appear as threats to human beings in the inscriptions on the Babylonian ...
Current Projects
Die Sprache der Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den 1980er Jahren
Im Rahmen eines Projekts zur Geschichte der Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung in Deutschland soll die Semantik der „Rajneesh-Times Deutschland", des zentralen Presseorgans der ...
Early Buddhists and their Ascetic Others
The Questions of Contact and Boundary Negotiations
The research project examines the dialogic influence of ascetic others, in particular the Jain other, on the early Buddhist monastic ...
Entangled Rituals in Late Antiquity
The regular, sometimes daily ritual for divine cult statues in Egypt, Greece and other regions of the ancient Mediterranean goes ...
Mapping the Global Middle Ages Through Computer Simulation
The discipline of medieval French literature has been slower than others (compared to other European languages or to fields other ...
The Conception of the Soul in Early Medieval China
Traditional religion in China centered on offerings and sacrifice made to gods and ancestors, and the dead were assumed to ...
The Formation of Mahāyāna Buddhism
There have been many attempts at explaining the origin, formation and early development of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Often they are characterized ...
