Lecture series "Hans-Blumenberg-Professorship"

The “Hans Blumenberg Professorship for Religion and Politics” of the Cluster of Excellence is to contribute to bringing innovative stimuli from international top-level research to Münster and deepening the interdisciplinary discussion at the Cluster of Excellence. Since summer semester 2016, renownend researchers from various disciplines, e.g. from history, sociology, ethnology and law, are appointed to the visiting professorship – named after the influential philosopher Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996).

Video zum Vortrag von Kwame Anthony Appiah

In his lecture at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, US philosopher and Hans Blumenberg Professor for 2024, Kwame Anthony Appiah, argued for a pluralistic understanding of religious identities. For Appiah, who teaches at New York University, this can resolve religious conflicts – without resorting to relativism.

Blumenberg Vortrag Marc Helbling Islamophobie _hintergrund — © exc

Lecture “Islamophobia in Western Europe: Fear of Muslims or Fundamentalists?”

Social scientist Marc Helbling is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” in summer semester 2021. The lecture “Islamophobia in Western Europe: Fear of Muslims or Fundamentalists?” was held by the sociologist on 8 June via Zoom.

Lecture “Religion and Culture: Egypt – Israel – Europe”

The cultural scientist and Blumenberg Visiting Professor Jan Assmann examined the changing relationship between religion, culture and politics from Ancient Egypt to modern times at the Cluster of Excellence. The video shows the full lecture entitled "Religion and Culture: Egypt - Israel - Europe".

Lecture: “500 years of the Reformation in Germany”

The “Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professorship” lecture series at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” saw the first Blumenberg Visiting Professor, historian Prof. Dr. Lucian Hölscher, talk about the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.