Ongoing research projects
- Visual Stereotyping of Religious Groups in the Colonial Philippines (Subproject A3-39 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2023)
- The role of social identities in interreligious arrangements: comparative perspectives on and from Sub-Saharan Africa (Subproject B3-48 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)
- The “newly baptized” in the Tsarist empire of the 18th and early 19th century (Subproject B3-43 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)
- Ephesus and its cult spaces: projections of political and religious practice (Subproject B3-41 of EXC 20260 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)
- Articulations of the ‘political’ in contemporary postcolonial contexts of North and Sub-Saharan Africa (Subproject A3-34 of EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2022)
- ecularism as a (Post-)Colonial Challenge? Religion and Republicanism in Marseille, 1946–1989 (Subproject A3-30 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2021)
- Fortune-telling and politics in the early modern period (Subproject C3-22 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2020)
- Demons: medialities between literature and art, religion and politics (Subproject of the EXC 2060 Religion und Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- Testing and contesting religious pluralism in Uganda (Subproject B3-20 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- Material Mediators: Medieval Material Culture at the Crossroads of Sacred and Secular Connotations (Subproject A3-8 of the EXC 2060 Religion und Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- Tradition and innovation of Graeco-Phoenician myths and cults in Roman Provincial Coinage (Subproject A3-3 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- Sacrality and the culture of piety in architectural and pictorial works of the early Habsburgs (Subproject A3-18 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- Ulster, Babel and Troy. Political and Religious Dynamics and Cultural Hybridization in Medieval Ireland (Subproject A3-15 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- Visual concepts of sacrality in dynastic Europe (17th and 18th century) (Subproject A3-14 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
- “Euphrates, Protective Shield?” – Religious Diversity and Cultural Identity in the Roman Middle East Between Tradition and Construction (Subproject A3-13 of the EXC 2060 Religion and Politics, funded by the DFG since 2019)
Completed research projects
- “Democracy, Human Rights, and Religion” (International doctoral programme, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation from 2018 to 2024)
- Cultures of Decision-Making (Collaborative Research Centre / SFB 1150, funded by the DFG from 2015 to 2019)
- “Muslims as a religious minority in Uganda” (Research project, funded by the DFG in 2014–2024)
Involved researchers
- Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Arweiler
- Prof. em. Dr. Helene Basu
- Prof. Dr. Hans Beck
- Prof. Dr. Olaf Blaschke
- apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Blömer
- Dr. Marcel Bubert
- Prof. Dr. Heike Bungert
- Prof. Dr. Wolfram Drews
- Prof. Dr. Franziska Dübgen
- Prof. Dr. Karl A. E. Enenkel
- Prof. Dr. Michael Grünbart
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Johannes Hahn
- Prof. Dr. Ralf Martin Jäger
- Prof. Dr. Jan Keupp
- Prof. Dr. Eva-Bettina Krems
- Dr. Lena Krull
- Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger
- Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ludwig
- Dr. Katharina Martin
- Prof. Dr. Silke Mende
- Prof. Dr. Walter Mesch
- Prof. Dr. Jens Niebaum
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister
- Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Michael Quante
- Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger
- Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz
- Prof. Dr. Ricarda Vulpius
- Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Zimmermann
Involved institutions
- Center for Religion and Modernity
- Centre for Religion-related Studies
- Centre of Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture
- Department of Ancient History
- Department of History
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Division of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies
- Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology / Archaeological Museum
- Institute for Classical Philology
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies
- Institute for Musicology
- Institute of Art History
- Research Centre for Ancient Numismatics
- Research Centre for Historical Regional Studies of Ancient Greece
- Seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times