"Religion and Politics" – Cluster of Excellence at the UNiversity of Münster
The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation” has been investigating since 2007 the complex relationship between religion and politics across eras and cultures. In the funding phase from 2019 to 2025, the 140 researchers from 20 disciplines in the humanities and social sciences analyze in transepochal studies ranging from antiquity to the present day the factors that make religion the motor of political and social change. The research network is the largest of its kind in Germany; and, of the Clusters of Excellence, one of the oldest and the only one to deal with the issue of religion. full story
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- Literarische Vielfalt und Vorstellungswelten im Wandel ‒ Arabist Thomas Bauer spricht im Pariser Louvre über die Literatur der Mamluken
- The US ethnographer and translator Deborah Kapchan is the new Hans Blumenberg Professor
- “He was a reform pope, but not a modernizer” – On the death of Pope Francis, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence in Theology, Religious Studies and Sociology of Religion analyse the pontificate
- Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence and the University of Münster on panels and in workshops at the Kirchentag Hannover
- New Research Center at the Center for Islamic Theology dedicated to interdisciplinary, interreligious, and critical research on masculinities – Mouhanad Khorchide joins the management team
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Recent Publications
- Ahlhaus, Svenja 2025. ‘Shifting Borders, Shifting Political Representation.’, in: Seyla Benhabib; Ayelet Shachar (Eds.), Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum and Shifting Borders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kaouther Karoui 2024. Theorizing Justice in Contemporary Arabo-Islamic Philosophy: A Transcultural Approach with Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Khodadadi, Bahman. 2024. On Theocratic Criminal Law. The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kogman-Appel, Katrin 2024. ‘Alexander’s Image in the Jewish Temple: A Medieval Tale of Jewish–non-Jewish Encounter.’ Association of Jewish Studies Review 46, 100–126.
- Oberauer, Norbert 2024. ‘Applied Legal Hermeneutics in 18th Century Fes: al-Tawudi's Treatise on the Effect of Long Duration on bay' al-thunya transactions.’ Islamic Law and Society 24, 1–49.
- Seewald, Michael; Bauer, Thomas; Bodenheimer, Alfred. 2024. Quelle langue parle Dieu? Trois essais sur le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam. Paris: Éditions Fenêtres.
- Tezcan, Levent 2024. Alles Rassismus? Ressentiment in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft, Konstanz: Konstanz University Press.
- von Scheliha, Arnulf; Wißmann, Hinnerk. 2024. Religionsunterricht 4.0. Eine religionspolitische Erörterung in rechtswissenschaftlicher und ethischer Perspektive. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag. doi: 10.1628/978-3-16-163662-2.
- Publications from the Cluster of Excellence