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Intangible Causes, Ambiguous Materials: Constellated Cosmologies of Urban Inequalities

Writing the Fifth Gospel

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Construction of Churches in Palestine, 1900–1954: Architecture and Religious Control

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

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Typologising Cities: Historical and Methodological Reflections

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

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

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

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Elites, Urban Space and Burials in Roman Imperial Athens

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

Other researched cities: Constantinople, Alexandria

Social History and Religion- Amritsar City: Orality and Ethnography

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

Between the Earthly Valley of Tears and 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

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

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

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

Other cities studied: Kolkata

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Spaces of the Sacred: Religious Practice in Urban Interstices

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

Other cities studied: Munich

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Co-Spatiality in the Early Modern European Bedchamber

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

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

Muslims and Urban Marginality in Mumbai

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Ritual Pollution, Secular Filth and the Politics of Cleansing Mumbai

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

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

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

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

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Seeing Religion: Religious Diversity and Urbanity

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

Other cities studied: Ravenna, Mainz, Arles

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

Co-Temporality

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

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)

Saints and the City: Untersuchungen zum christlichen Heiligen- und Reliquienkult als verbindendes Phänomen in sozio-religiösen Prozessen der Gruppenbildung ausgehend von der syrischen Grenzstadt Resafa/Sergiupolis

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

Other cities studied: towns in Latium

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

Religious urbanization in global times

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Lagos

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

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

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From Corduba in Hispania to Qurtuba in al-Andalus: The Making of a Western Islamic Capital

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

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

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

Group Formation in French Cities during the Wars of Religion (1562–1598)

Early Buddhism and its Urban Environment

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

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

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

Late Antique Rome: Space, People and Gods

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

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Ritual Deposits and Foundation of Cities in Indo-Greek Gandhāra

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

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

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

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

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

Water in Urban South Asia: Architecture, Space and Meaning

Other cities studied: Dabhoi, Somnath, Viramgam, Vadnagar

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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)

Alternative Urbanities. Mapping Gardens and Reservoirs in Pre-modern Indian Cities (the Case of Vadnagar)

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

Transnational Buddhism and Dalit Migration

Other cities studied: Nagpur, Tokyo, Taipei, London

"A city and a mother in Israel": Urban Stories and Their Social Background and Significance in Rabbinic Culture

Other cities: Tiberias, Lydda, Caesarea

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A Guide to the Rabbinic Market Place: Roman Palestine in the 3rd–4th Centuries

Begräbnisse und Totengedächtnis im öffentlichen Raum großer protestantischer Ostseestädte vom 16. bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts (Danzig, Elbling, Königsberg, Stettin)

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

Urbanisation and Religion at a Crossroads of Change

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

Other cities studied: Amiens, Abbeville, Dieppe

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

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

Daily Life Spatialities of Religiosity in Ottoman Tunis

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

Accounting in the Name of God. Urban Perspectives in Florentine and Genoese Trade with the Levant and Maghreb (1400-1550)

Other cities studied: Florence, Genova, Tunis, Alexandria, Cairo, Beirut, Constantinople/Pera

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

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

Which Urbanity is Babel the name of?

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Urbanity and Humanity: Babel as an Open Myth

Co-Spatiality: An Introduction

Roman Urban Entertainments and Christianizing Cultures in Late Antiquity

Other cities studied: Alexandria, Carthage, Constantinople

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‘Talk of the Town’: Sociability, the Culture of Spectacles and Religiosity in Roman and Late Roman Metropolitan Cities

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

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

Urban Space-Time in Second Century Christ Religion

Other cities studied: Alexandria, Ephesos

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New Testament Urbanities

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

Other cities studied: Sopron, Bratislava, Pozsony

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Typologising Cities: Historical and Methodological Reflections

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

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

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

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

Perforating Urban Boundaries with Processions in the European High and Late Middle Ages

Negotiating the Religious – Linguistic and Communicative Practices in Early Modern Urbanity

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

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Which Urbanity? Secondary Urban Centres and Their Attendant Religious Formations

Urban Spaces and Female Laundry Workers in 1940s Dublin

Architecture, Spectacle and Ritual in the Late Medieval City

Other cities studied: Vienna, Krakow

Cult Constructions in Ukrainian and British Literature (Theory)

Utopia as a Challenging Imagination of the City Religion and Urbanity in The Handmaid’s Tale

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

Materializing Urban Religious Aspirations: New Creation Church and the Building of The Star Performing Arts Centre Singapore

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)

Urbanity (urbanitas, Urbanität, urbanité, urbanità, urbanidad…) — An Essay

Typologising Cities: Historical and Methodological Reflections

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

Other cities studied: Tarquinia

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

Spokesperson of the "Urbanity & Religion" research group

Gods and Cities

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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

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

Other cities studied: Sevilla

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

Mapping Space and Religion in Aleppo, Past and Present City

The spirit of the city: Urbanism and religion in India

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Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India

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

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Reformed Space. The Visibility of the New Faith in 16th-Century Zurich

Boundaries of Lived Religion in Ancient Rome and Contemporary China

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

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

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

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

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Poetry as Political Religion? Dimensions of Stefan George in Edgar Salin’s Concept of Urbanity

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

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

Other cities studied: Konstanz, Ellwangen

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

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

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