Tutankhamun collection moved in full to GEM Sanaa’ Farouk – Watani
In preparation for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on the Giza Pyramid plateau, scheduled for 1| Watani
In preparation for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on the Giza Pyramid plateau, scheduled for 1| Watani
Dealing with the dead and death is a topic that attracts scholars of every period. The universal question of transitioning from one state-of-being into the other represents a basic process applicable to every human being. As we all die one day and become part of the dead, their whereabouts and treatment will eventually affect every one of us. That is why this conference’s topic Necrogeographies of the Marginal Dead has a natural attraction to it because all of us will die one day and join...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
In diesem Sommer bietet Bayerns Landeshauptstadt München gleich zwei Ausstellungen zu Stadt und urbanem Leben. Das Münchner Stadtmuseum zeigt mit “What the City. Perspektiven unserer Stadt” eine Ausstellung zu den vielen Städten (bzw. Facetten), in denen sich München als gewachsene Metropole zeigt. Sie reichen von Kunst und Kultur bis hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und der Gestaltung sowie Wahrnehmung durch die MünchnerInnen selbst. Die zweite Ausstellung ist in der Kunsthalle München in der...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
In 2025, there were 16 new entries in the database "Religion and Urbanity Online" so far. They cover the time span from antiquity to modernity, cities as different as Aleppo, Singapore and Sens, and approach religion and urbanity from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, literature studies and the history of religions. Enjoy reading!| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
Traditional religious historiography attempts to grasp ‘religions’ in their becoming, possibly their founding, their slow or radical changes – similar to how urban historiography undertook. This brought transformations into view that, in the extreme case, could take on their own form in the splitting and splitting off of religious groups...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
The KFG "Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations" has an ongoing collaboration with the research project "Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space", which is part of the Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations". Three workshops are an important part of the "Multilingualism" project...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
As summer approaches, here are some recent highlights from our blog...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
Today, the academic study of religion in the discipline widely called Religious Studies or Religionswissenschaft has developed into a large array of thematical fields and foci, of general approaches and source-specific methods. As such it is ranging from historical and anthropological disciplines through social sciences and economics to philosophies and theologies, either conceived as a proper discipline overlapping with these other disciplines or seen as a subdiscipline to the one or other o...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
Die eigene Arbeit am Manuskript einer globalen Religionsgeschichte unter dem Fokus von „Religion und Urbanität“ wirft nicht nur Fragen nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Vergleichs, dem Umgang mit objektsprachlichen und metasprachlichen Terminologien und der ganz praktischen Frage der Stoffauswahl auf. Sie macht auch die Frage nach dem Übergangsfeld von historischem Erzählen und Fiktion auf...| Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations
