The Center for Religion and Modernity is part of interdisciplinary and cross-epochal research on religion at the University of Münster. This research has been concentrated in the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures” since 2007 in a way that is unique in Germany. The University of Münster has also founded research institutions in recent years to institutionalize the study of religion. As one of these centres, the CRM works in close cooperation with the other institutions.