Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Nimrod Luz (PhD in Geography and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies 2001, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is a cultural-political geographer focusing on theories of the spatialization of culture, urbanism, religion and the reflexive relations between society and space.
He held post-docs positions at UW-Madison, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Between 2005 to 2018 he was a faculty member at Western Galilee College and in 2018 he joined Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee where he currently serves as Head of Research Authority.
He holds numerous fellowships in various research centers among them the Max Planck, TOPOI, and the 2007-2008 Fulbright Professor in Residence at IU-South Bend.
He has published widely on urban history of the Middle East, politics of sacred sites in contested regions, and enchanted religious manifestations in contemporary cities.
Currently he leads Religiocity, an Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) project on religion(s) in cities.
Email at Kinneret Academic College: Luznimrod@mx.kinneret.ac.il
The Infrastructures of Religiocity in Acre
Materialities of Faiths and their Politics in a Mixed Israeli City
This project seeks to fill an important lacuna at the intersection of the study of religions and the urban sphere and aims to contextualize further distinct urban religious subjectivities and spatialities. In this project I explore, among other things, the ways through which cities give rise to distinct religious subjectivities and the contribution of urban religious “subjects” to distinct spatialities. This is explored through the analysis of various urban structures and religious influence and activity therein: planning, education, religious institutions, public sphere. Taking contemporary Acre, a multi-religious and ethnically mixed Israeli city as its subject, the project explores the relational spatialities between religion(s) and the city, focusing mainly on religious urban infrastructures and materialities.
Selected publications
University of Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
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