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Institute for Religious Folklore Studies (registered association
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Welcome to the website of the Institute for Religious Folklore Studies!
We are a non-profit association for the promotion of academic research in the areas of religious folklore and Rhenish-Westphalian Church history. We work closely with the
Department of Westphalian Regional History
at the University of Münster.