Members and the cities they work on

CITY STUDIED

PROJECT

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Intangible Causes, Ambiguous Materials: Constellated Cosmologies of Urban Inequalities

Jerusalem, Israel

Writing the Fifth Gospel

Belfast, Northern Ireland

The SpaceTime of Urban Violence and Policing in the British Empire: The Riots in Belfast (c. 1857-1935) and in Jerusalem during the British Mandate

Other cities studied: ´ Jerusalem

Theory & Methodology

Crafting Places, Re-Crafting Cities. Religion and Urbanity in Vergil’s Aeneid

Alexandria, Egypt

Communication and Early Christianity in Alexandria (2nd century CE). The Treatise on the "Divine Monarchy" as a "Test Case"

Athens, Greece

Death and the Dead in the City - A Case Study on Roman and Late Antique Athens

Rome, Italy

The common bath of Christians. Conflicts of urban actors and institutions in the literary sources (2nd- 6th century CE)

Other researched cities: Constantinople, Alexandria

Amritsar, India

Social History and Religion- Amritsar City: Orality and Ethnography

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Religion, Religiosity and the Urban World: Everyday Lives of People in Amritsar City, Punjab, India

Nuremberg, Germany

Between the Earthly Valley of Tears and the Heavenly Jerusalem. Mutual Influences of Religious Norms and Urban Concepts of Space in Early Modern Nuremberg, Basel, London, and Boston (1600-1750)

Other cities studied: Basel, London, Boston

Barcelona, Catalonia

Religious Space in Barcelona: Towards an Eventful Sociology of Religious Urbanity

Manpura, Bangladesch

Religious Networks and the Making of Maritime Cities: Case Studies of Reciprocity in South Asia (c. 500-1300 CE)

Varanasi, India

Space, Community, Practice: Urban Imaginaries and Religion in the Modern Indian City

Other cities studied: Kolkata

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Spaces of the Sacred: Religious Practice in Urban Interstices

London, United Kingdom

Ordering the Dead? Urban Burials in London and Munich, c. 1550-1870

Other cities studied: Munich

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Co-Spatiality in the Early Modern European Bedchamber

Divine Power and Urban Norms: Danzig’s Policeyordnungen as Early Modern Guides to Urbanity

Angoulême, Fance

Le roy est entré dans notre ville: Examining how the Valois Monarchy Interacted with the Centre and Periphery, 1560-1574

Other cities studied: Lyon, Blois, Amboise

Mumbai, India

Muslims and Urban Marginality in Mumbai

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Ritual Pollution, Secular Filth and the Politics of Cleansing Mumbai

Besnagar, Vidisha, India

Through the Pillars: Religion and Urbanity of Besnagar 2nd century BCE to 7th century CE

Athens, Greece

Urban Voice(s) of the Deity: Rumor, Religion, and Urban Space in Classical Athens

Srirangam, India

Sacred Space, Urbanism and Intersection between Tradition and Modernity: the Case of Srirangam in the Tamil Region of South India

Venice, Italy

As a Nautilus Shell…Religious Diversity and Urbanity. An Historical Journey

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Seeing Religion: Religious Diversity and Urbanity

Edessa (today Sanliurfa), Turkey

Adapted Landscapes: Urban Spaces and Religious Movements in Long Late Antiquity

Other cities studied: Ravenna, Mainz, Arles

Erfurt, Germany

Redefining the Sacred in Modern European Architecture: Bruno Taut, Rudolf Steiner, Le Corbusier and the Construction of Sacred Space

Ephesos, Turkey

The Gospel of John within the Context of the Urban Society of Ephesus in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE

Mumbai, India

Precarious Belonging: Religious Options and Engagements with the World in a Metropolitan Context. The case of Dalits in Dharavi

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Precarious Belonging. Religious Options and Engagements with the World in a Metropolitan Context. The case of Dalits in Dharavi (Mumbai)

Rome, Italy

Religion and Urbanity in its Formation: A Case Study from Early Rome and Central Italy

Other cities studied: towns in Latium

On Religion and Urbanity online:

The Role of Religion at the Birth of First Cities and State Organisation in Central Italy (1100–500 BCE)

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo

Religious urbanization in global times

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Lagos

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Urbanisation and City-making in African Christianities: Remapping the New Jerusalem

Cordova, Spain

The Islam and the City: Building Religious and Urban Spaces in the Middle Ages

Rome, Italy

Mystagogue: small-time religious entrepreneurs as a type of individualisation in the Roman Empire

Athens, Greece

Cult and Crisis. The Sacred Landscape of Attica and its Correlation to Political Topography

Kolkata, India

Everyday Shiism Online: Use of Social Media and the Contest over Urban Space (Kolkata, India)

Kushinagar, India

Early Buddhism and its Urban Environment

Other cities studied: Vaisali, Raijgir,Sravastil, Kausambi, Rajgha, Deprung

Pompei, Italy

Talking with, about, and in the presence of the Gods: Graffiti in Pompeii

Erfurt, Thuringia

City as Light Space - Natural and Artificial Light in the Context of Urban Concepts on the Threshold from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period

Other cities studied: Aachen, Colonge, Munster

Rome, Italy

Late Antique Rome: Space, People and Gods

Barikot, Pakistan

Mapping Urban and Religious Changes in Swat / Uddiyana (1st-10th c. CE). The City and its Hinterland

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Ritual Deposits and Foundation of Cities in Indo-Greek Gandhāra

Cádiz, Spain

Reconceiving religions and public spaces: Southern European cities in the age of revolutions

Other cities studied: Naples, Madrid, Lisbon, Athens, Porto

Varanasi, India

Religion and Communities in a River-City: Co-living and Contestations in Varanasi

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Construction and Transformation of a Sacred City: The Religioscape of Varanasi

Amritsar, India

Sacred Cities: Magnets for Mercantilism, Moralities, Worship and Salvation 

Ahmedabad, India

Water in Urban South Asia: Architecture, Space and Meaning

Other cities studied: Dabhoi, Somnath, Viramgam, Vadnagar

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Vāstu śāstra as Ideological Guides to South Asian Urbanity: (5th–15th Century and Beyond)

Tangible and Imagined Spatialities around Water: Munsar Lake as a Study Case of South Asian Hydro-space (Viramgam, India, 11th-12th centuries)

Hamburg, Germany

Religion and city in press and travel photography of the Magnum Agency

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Transnational Buddhism and Dalit Migration

Other cities studied: Nagpur, Tokyo, Taipei, London

Theory & Methodology

Urbanism as Ritual: City Planning in Roman Religion and Rabbinic Judaism

Rouen, France

Prayers, paintings, poems: lay brotherhoods between city and cathedral in French urban centers

Other cities studied: Amiens, Abbeville, Dieppe

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Paintings, Poetry, and Prayers. Lay Confraternities and Their Artistic Devotion Between 1400 and 1750 in French Urban Centres

Milan, Italy

The history of secularism and secularist ideas of death and the afterlife in their relation to science and technology

Other cities studied: Paris, London, Gotha

Tunis, Tunesia

Daily Life Spatialities of Religiosity in Ottoman Tunis

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Conceptualising Urbanity, Reinterpreting Coexistence: A ḥisba Manuscript of the Late Ottoman Era in Tunis

Algiers, Algeria

Genoese and Florentine merchant bankers in the Maghreb and the Levant. Accounting for travelling objects, social complexities, and religious diversities in an urban context (1400-1550)

Paris, France

Religion and Urbanity: Tamil Hindu Aspirations and Negotiations of Space in Paris

Rome, Italy

Mapping Urban Deathscapes. The burial and commemoration practices within the experienced city of Rome

Valenciennes, France

Which Urbanity is Babel the name of?

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Urbanity and Humanity: Babel as an Open Myth

Co-Spatiality: An Introduction

Rome, Italy

Roman Urban Entertainments and Christianizing Cultures in Late Antiquity

Other cities studied: Alexandria, Carthage, Constantinople

Akko, Israel

The Infrastructures of Religiocity in Acre. Materialities of Faiths and their Politics in a Mixed Israeli City

On Religion and Urbanity online:

ReligioCity: Towards a Theory of Urban Religion and Religion in Urbanity

Carthage

Urban Space-Time in Second Century Christ Religion

Other cities studied: Alexandria, Ephesos

Vienna, Austria

Spaces and Ways of Belonging: The Religiosity of Changing Urban Communities in Late Medieval East Central Europe

Other cities studied: Sopron, Bratislava, Pozsony

Delhi, India

From Little Medina to Mega-city. The Making and Unmaking of the Sacred City of Delhi

Würzburg, Germany

The Mob outside the Walls: urban communities and religiously motivated mass processions

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Nuremberg, Möckmühl, Paris, Tours, Orléans, Bourges

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Religious Violence in European Cities Initiated by Wandering Crowds during the 13th Century

Amritsar, India

Religious crossroads at the intersection of the mofussil (non-urban region), the secondary urban centre, and the imperial centre in early modern North India

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Ludihana

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Which Urbanity? Secondary Urban Centres and Their Attendant Religious Formations

Dublin, Ireland

Urban Spaces and Female Laundry Workers in 1940s Dublin

Prague, Czech Republic

Architecture, Spectacle and Ritual in the Late Medieval City

Other cities studied: Vienna, Krakow

Kharkiw, Ukraine

Cult Constructions in Ukrainian and British Literature (Theory)

Athens, Greece

Theology and the Dissolution of Cities. Religious Anti-Urbanism in Early Stoicism

Calicut/Kozhikode, India

Spokesperson of the "Urbanity& Religion" research group

Urbanity. History, theory and analysis of spatio-temporal and religious dynamics in European and South Asian cities

Other cities studied: Hamburg, Lyon

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Canons, Councillors and Confrères: Changing Power Constellations in the City of Lyon (Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Times)

Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (together with Jörg Rüpke)

Urci/ Villaricos, Spain

Citizenship and religion in the 1^st-millennium-BC Mediterranean: Etruria and Iberia

Other cities studied: Tarquinia

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Violence, Power and Religion in the South Etruscan Archaic City-State

Rome, Italy

Spokesperson of the "Urbanity & Religion" research group

Gods and Cities

On Religion and Urbanity online:

Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (together with Susanne Rau)

Religion and the Urban

Foundation Stories: Concepts of Urbanity in Augustan Rome

Heterarchy of Religious and Political Agents in Ancient Rome

Lisbon, Portugal

Urban Piety between Resonance and Dissonance. Seville and Lisbon from the Perspective of German Jesuits

Other cities studied: Sevilla

Erfurt, Germany

"Eine Anzahl Bücher zum … Geschenke“. Stiftungen und Nachlässe für die Erfurter Ministerialbibliothek in der Frühen Neuzeit

Delhi, India

The spirit of the city: Urbanism and religion in India

Zurich, Switzerland

Reformierter Stadtraum: Zur Sichtbarkeit des neuen Glaubens im 16. Jahrhundert

Shanghai, China

Boundaries of Lived Religion in Ancient Rome and Contemporary China

Esztergom, Hungary

Cathedral Cities in Context. Bishops Seats in Medieval East Central Europe as Urban and Religious Centres

Other cities studied: Prague, Kalocsa, Olomouc, Gniezno, Pécs, Krakow

On Religion and Urbanity online:

From Model to Rival? Competition or Complementarity in Bishops’ Seats in East Central Europe

New York, United States of America

Kol Nidre on Broadway, Jazz Singers in the Shul: Cinema and the Transformation of the High Holidays in New York City

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Sunday Laws and Sunday Liberties: Religious Nativism, Urban Cultural Politics and the Regulation of Cheap Amusements in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

Potsdam, Germany

Spatial Formations of "Geist": Edgar Salin s Nomological Concept of Statehood and its Relation to the Circle of Stefan George (Theory)

Carthage

Citifying Jesus: Early Christians Making of an Urban Religion (1st-5th CE)

Other researched cities: Rome, Smyrna

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The Poverty Plateau: The Space of the Urban Street Poor in Early Christian Literature

Urban Distances: Christians’ Guidelines to Secrecy and Discretion

Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion

Kempten, Germany

Authority and Gender. Conflicts over Abbesses and Provosts in Southwest German Urban Monasteries (15th/16th Century)

Other cities studied: Konstanz, Ellwangen

Theory & Methodology

Comparative Cultural World Relations/ Kulturvergleichende Weltbeziehungen (Theory)

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World Relations and the Production of Urban Realities: On Space and Action, City and Urbanity

Brașov, Romania

Interactions between city population and mendicant communities in Transylvania before the Reformation

Samos, Greece

Festival Hubs. Deep-mapping sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

Other cities studied: Stratonikeia, Karya, Magnesia, Pergamon

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Connecting the Greeks Multi-Scalar Festival Networks in the Hellenistic World