Ongoing research projects of GKM members in the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" (2019-2025)
Hans Beck & Sophia Nomicos "Belonging in/to Lakonia. An archaeohistorical study on the Sanctuary of Apollo at Amyklai and its surroundings"
Research Area A "Transcultural Intertwining and Disentanglement ”
Eve-Marie Becker: Cosmocracy and Pantocracy in Early Christianity (KoPaC): Roots, Functions, and Effects of Early Christian Governance Staging.
Lutz Doering: Transcultural entanglements and disentanglements in Jewish apocalypticism
Michael Grünbart: Deathscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: memorial sites and their political instrumentalization in the Middle Ages
Katrin Kogman-Appel: Buildings change their identity: Iberia 711-1609
Clemens Leonhard: The Passover Haggadah. History of Text and Ritual - Digital Edition of Important Geniza Fragments
Achim Lichtenberger: Tradition and Innovation of Graeco-Phoenician Mythology and Cults in the Mirror of Imperial Coinage
Angelika Lohwasser: What are "state gods"? Kingship and Cult in Meroe (3rd century B.C. to 3rd century A.D.)
Christophe Nihan: Emergence and Transformations of Purity Concepts in Judaism of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in the Context of the Ancient Mediterranean Area
Gesa Schenke: Abraham in Everyday Life. Lived and handed down religiosity in the Coptic tradition of the Testament of Abraham according to original codices of the 4th and 10th centuries
Engelbert Winter: Shield Euphrates? - Religious Diversity and Cultural Identity in the Roman Near East between Tradition and Construction
Research Field B "Religious Diversity and Legal-Political Unity ”
Hans Beck: Localism and Religion in Ancient Greece
Peter Funke: Civil War and Amnesty
Johannes Hahn: Integration and Exclusion of Religious Plurality in Christian Late Antiquity (4th-6th Century A.D.)
Rüdiger Schmitt: Conflict and Ritual in the Old Testament and its Environment
Patrick Sänger: Ephesus and its cult spaces: projections of political and religious practice
Research Area C "Criticism of Religion and Apology of Religion ”
Alexander Arweiler: Negotiation and Critique of Religious Evidential Claims in Epistolography between Fronto and Sidonius.
Syrinx von Hees: Transformations of the Burda: Political Dimensions of a Controversial Literary-Religious Discourse (13th-15th Centuries)
Johannes Schnocks: Conceptions of overcoming violence in the Old Testament and its reception
Holger Strutwolf: Theory of Variant Emergence on the Basis of an Open Digital Edition of the Greek New Testament
