Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Steinplatz 2
99085 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Raminder is part of the ‘Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations’ Kollegforschungsgruppe directed by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Her research examines how, and in what ways, particular locations become magnets for mercantile exchange, financial capital as well as determined as religiously specific ‘sacred cities’. If contemporary cities are primarily defined by their economic, administrative and multi-ethnic characteristics, how might we view a city that is both a hub for trade and a site of salvation whose prime identity stands in contradistinction to the diversity of its inhabitants? Her initial focus is on the Indian city of Amritsar, bordering Pakistan and located near the Grand Trunk Road. From the 1500s, Amritsar became the spiritual heart of the Sikh religion as well as a prominent city for trade and tourism. She examines the following questions, ranging from the historical to the more ethnographic:
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