A Place of One's Own
Redefining Territory Through Pilgrimage in Russia's Ural Region
In a multi-cultural environment and especially in conditions of empire, pilgrimage can be a tool for individuals and groups to ...
Current Projects
Buddhist Diversity and Inter-regional Connectivity in Southeast Asia
The Intervention of Chinese Religious Syncretism
This project attempts to look at Buddhist diversity and inter-regional religious connectivity in Southeast Asia through the lens of Chinese ...
Debating Authorities
Gender and the Interpretation of Religion(s) in Colonial India
Configurations of religion(s) in colonial India are not only intrinsically connected to newly created political and legal frameworks, but ...
Early Modern Visual Systems of Religious Encounter
A Comparative Study
The project shall investigate visual strategies elaborated in early modern Europe in order to facilitate communication between Christians and non-Christians ...
Evolution and Present Dynamics of Conflicting Religious Cosmologies in East Tibet
The project concentrates on the evolution and present dynamics of two conflicting religious cosmologies in East Tibet: the Tibetan indigenous ...
Gender, Islamic Normativity and Cultural Critique in the Arab Region
Focusing on issues of gender and sexual difference as schemes for reconfiguring Islamic normativity, the project studies the shaping of ...
Inter-Religious Contact in Early Modern Polish Livonia
The Eastern shores of the Baltic Sea have always been a borderland region between the influences of different political, cultural ...
Mapping Modern Magic(k)
For a few decades a global discourse of contemporaneous self-designated 'magicians' is flourishing (more or less) below the ...
Religious Encounters between Jews and Reformed Christians
The Case of Hizzuk Emunah
Hebrew anti-Christian polemical literature represents a rather rigid genre, most of the texts being written as polemical compendia where repeating ...
Sufi Tariqah in Contemporary Muslim World / Naqshbandiayh Sheikhs and Ideas in Western Sumatra
The problem of studying the syncretistic religious traditions deals with transferring and preserving of ancient knowledge in Islamic mystical institutions ...
