News of the Max-Weber-Kolleg

"Die Bodenständigen. Erkundungen aus der nüchternen Mitte der Gesellschaft" - the book by Barbara Theriault, which was published in the edition überland" in 2020, is "Germany's most beautiful regional book 2020".

The DFG-funded research group "Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations" (FOR 2779) of the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt has now gone online with a database on religion and urbanity at the publishing house De Gruyter.

How did people in East Germany experience the last years of the GDR and the system change? How did they cope with and shape the 1990s? How do they remember it today? The research group "Die lange Geschichte der 'Wende'. Lebenswelt und Systemwechsel…

Oxford University Press is publishing a new book by Mark Porter in November, which deals with the resonance of Christian music.

If one wants to understand how the crimes of National Socialism were possible, it makes sense to look at the moral reasons that shaped the normative self-image of the acting actors. This topic is explored in the annotated volume of sources "Supposed…

Modern societies are characterised by permanent change and conflict-laden dynamics. Social processes with diverse intended and unintended consequences cause a high degree of complexity of social phenomena. Against this background, the question of the…

Upon proposal of the General Assembly of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS), Prof. Benno Werlen, holder of the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability and Fellow at the Max Weber College of the University of Erfurt, has now…

What is the place of the sacred and religion in modern social life? Neither a linear view of secularization as the progressive and global decline of religion, nor a mystical understanding of the "return of the religious" seems sufficient to grasp…