"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
Conference on antisemitism and political Islamism
- Recognition for research and social integration – Islamic theologian Mouhanad Khorchide from the Cluster of Excellence is awarded the golden Order of Merit
- Panel of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) to focus on monograph by Perry Schmidt-Leukel from the Cluster of Excellence
- Teaching materials based on around 10,000 petitions written by persecuted Jews during the Shoah – ‘Asking the Pope for Help’ provides pupils with freely accessible learning materials.
- Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald awards fellowship to theologian Eve-Marie Becker from the Cluster of Excellence
- Award for interreligious dialog - Islamic theologian Dina El Omari from the Cluster of Excellence receives the Herbert Haag Prize 2025
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Recent Publications
- Becker, Eve-Marie 2024. Ursprünge der christlichen Geschichtsschreibung. Von Markus bis zum lukanischen Doppelwerk, Paderborn; Leiden; Boston: Brill; Schöningh.
- Bockholt, Philip 2024. ‘Shah Ṭahmāsp and the Taẕkira: A Sixteenth-Century Ruler’s Justification of his Policies.’, in: Maribel Fierro; Sonja Brentjes; Tilman Seidensticker (Eds.), Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World: Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 631–655.
- Bubert, Marcel (Hrsg.) 2024. Aneignungen der Geschichte. Narrative Evidenzstrategien und politische Legitimation im europäischen Mittelalter, Köln: Böhlau.
- Funke, Peter 2024. ‘Aligning the Dots. Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World’, in: Sheila Ager; Hans Beck (Eds.), Localism in the Hellenistic World, Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 201–215.
- Jansen, Nils 2024. ‚Aufbruch in die Moderne? Der Humanismus und die Jurisprudenz des 16. Jahrhunderts‘ Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung 141, Nr. 1, 189–246.
- Kogman-Appel, Katrin; Baumgarten, Elisheva; Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim; Hollender, Elisabeth (Eds.) 2024. Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval Jewish Cultures, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
- Schmidt-Leukel, Perry 2024. ‘In What Sense Can Inter-Faith Dialogue Contribute to Inter-Faith Peace?’ Ching Feng. A journal on Christianity and Chinese religion and culture 22, 1–19.
- Williamson, W. Paul; Demmrich, Sarah 2024. An International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism, Leiden: Brill.