The CRM project “Globil Bible” is presented in the december edition of the university newspaper wissen|leben. The article offers an exciting insight into the goals and approaches of the project, which deals with the global distribution of biblical texts, the attempt to translate the texts into all the languages of the world and their meaning.

From 7 to 8 November 2024, participants from all over the world came together for the ‘Translating Colonialism conference’ at Westminster College, University of Cambridge.
The conference was the major event for the second year of the Global Bible project, and has been over a year in the planning and thinking.

Papers were organised into panels which corresponded roughly to geographical and chronological themes, though the range and diversity of topics and approaches was a key feature of the conference. Continue reading...

This Festschrift in honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel on the occasion of his seventieth birthday brings together essays that constructively engage with his erudite and wide-ranging contributions to the fields of Theology of Religions, Interreligious Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Buddhist and Religious Studies, Buddhist-Christian Relations, and Interreligious Dialogue.

Based on current religious constitutional law, Arnulf von Scheliha and Hinnerk Wißmann discuss the necessity and options for a future-proof further development of religious education in schools, which will do justice to the growing religious plurality as well as the religious development of the pupils.

The DFG-funded GloBil project organised a workshop in cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, on Tuesday, 2 July 2024. The workshop took place at the IDL Amonoo-Neizer Conference Centre and KNUST and was organised by Prof. J. E. T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor (Department of Religious Studies, KNUST), Dr. Michael Wandusim (CRM University of Münster) and PD Dr. Felicity Jensz (University of Münster).

Should research on human embryos be allowed or banned? Using the example of embryo research in the USA, the book analyzes how religious actors participate in the public discourse around biopolitics an how they influence legal regulations. more...