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Religion and Urbanity Online (Upload 2/2022)

The KFG’s peer-reviewed, open access database, published by De Gruyter and edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke, has been updated with nine new articles:

  • Bennison, Amira. "Inclusive and Exclusive Co-spatiality in the Almohad Reconfiguration of Twelfth-Century Marrakesh" In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17261011
  • Christ, Martin. "Divine Power and Urban Norms: Danzig’s Policeyordnungen as Early Modern Guides to Urbanity". Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.18905722.
  • Christ, Martin. "Co-Spatiality in the Early Modern European Bedchamber" In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17261275
  • Filocamo, Gioia. "Urban Ethics through Music: Virgin Mary’s Intermediary Role in the Fifteenth-Century Bolognese ‘Laude’ for the Gallows" In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17261786
  • Giorda, Mariachiara. "Sharing Space Beyond Dichotomies: A Geo-History of Italian Religious Places" In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17262149
  • Kanungo, Pralay. "Construction and Transformation of a Sacred City: The Religioscape of Varanasi" In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.11276431
  • Keller, Sara. "Tangible and Imagined Spatialities around Water: Munsar Lake as a Study Case of South Asian Hydro-space (Viramgam, India, 11th-12th centuries)" In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17262808
  • Murphy, Anne. "Which Urbanity? Secondary Urban Centres and Their Attendant Religious Formations " In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.11327907
  • Thissen, Judith. "Sunday Laws and Sunday Liberties: Religious Nativism, Urban Cultural Politics and the Regulation of Cheap Amusements in Turn-of-the-Century New York City " In Religion and Urbanity Online edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17263362

Nov 2022: UrbRel annual conference on urbanity

From 16 to 18 November 2022, our annual conference took place at Ettersburg Castle, close to Weimar. Drawing upon the results of two summer workshops - one on the benefits and pitfalls of typologising cities, the other on morphing urbanities across time and space - the conference took a closer look at urbanity, the history of the concept and its uses. Conveners: Susanne Rau, Sara Keller; Organiser: Klara Maeve O'Reilly

Concept Note Blog Post with more details Programme Book of Abstracts

CfA UrbRel Fellowships 2023/24 [closed]

We are currently inviting applications for fellowships in 2023-2024 (deadline: 15.09.2022) Full call

Job offer: 1 postdoctoral & 2 PhD positions @ "Religion and Urbanity"[closed]

...starting October 2022. Postdoc (German) Postdoc (English) PhD (German) PhD (English)

UrbRel Fellowship for Ukrainian early career researchers at risk [closed]

The "Religion and Urbanity" research group, based at the Max Weber Centre (Erfurt) is offering one 9-month fellowship for a Ukrainian/Ukraine-based early career reseacher at risk. Open call

Religion and Urbanity Upload 1/2022

In winter 2021/21 the open access platform "Religion and Urbanity Online", edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke, was updated with seven new articles:

  • Lévy, Jacques. “Urbanity and Humanity: Babel as an Open Myth “. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.17263018.
  • Szende, Katalin. “From Model to Rival? Competition or Complementarity in Bishops’ Seats in East Central Europe”. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.13901342.
  • Stercken, Martina. “Reformed Space. The Visibility of the New Faith in 16th-Century Zurich”. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.15247251.
  • Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia. “Buddhism in the Life of Ulaanbaatar: Nucleus, Trace and Bustling Urbanite”. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.15318468.
  • Lafi, Nora. “Conceptualising Urbanity, Reinterpreting Coexistence: A ḥisba Manuscript of the Late Ottoman Era in Tunis”. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.11276311.
  • Facchini, Cristiana. “Seeing Religion: Religious Diversity and Urbanity”. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.11276204.
  • Mersch, Katharina Ulrike. “Religious Violence in European Cities Initiated by Wandering Crowds during the 13th Century”. Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.16241900.

Calls for Applications [closed]

  • Fellowship for 3 to 6 month, Start: 1 September 2019 and 28 February 2021, PDF
  • 2 doctoral positions for Ph.D. projects and 1 post-doctoral position for habilitation projectm, Deadline: 6 January 2019, Start: 1 April 2019 PDF
  • 28/2018 — The City in the History of Religion/Religion and Urbanity pdf

Press Releases

  • The Reformation Research Consortium awarded its prize to Dr. Martin Christfor his monograph “Biographies of a Reformation Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, c. 1520-1635” (OUP) . Full text

  • The research group "Religion and Urbanity" was successful in the second DFG funding round!  Press release

  • Gay-Lussac Humboldt-Prize for Prof. Dr. Susanne Rau ... read more    here

  • Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Die Religion der Stadtviertel“, Pressemitteilung

  • Internationale Konferenz: „Die Religion der Stadtviertel“, am 4.-6. Juli in Eisenach, Pressemitteilung