Research projects

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A01 Divine Property. Solutions from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A01 in SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores various historical and conceptual foundations underlying the structural change of and through property with a view to religious practices and theories. (Funding phase 1)
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International Graduate School (IGS) "Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices"
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke Duration
10/2017 - 09/2026 Funding
Several donors
2 200 000 €
The aim of the joint project is to provide an institutional base for studies comparing the self-world relations that are reflected in the polytheistic practices of ancient times, with those that crystalize in practices of the contemporary (late) modern period.
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Kolleg-Research Group "Religion and Urbanity"
Project management
Several Duration
10/2018 - 09/2026 Funding
Several donors
10 500 000 €
Susanne Rau & Jörg Rüpke: Cities and religion(s) have had a deep impact on each other. Up to now, research has focused on religion in cities - on the reciprocal changes in religious practices and urban space, at best in "global cities" and in the present. We want to fill the research gap that has arisen in this way by investigating the historical depth of the reciprocal formation within the framework of a collegiate research group. (Following funding from the German Research Foundation, the…
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Lived Ancient Religion – Questioning "Cults" and "Polis Religion"
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke Duration
06/2013 - 05/2017 Funding
European Research Council (ERC):
2 300 000 €
Jörg Rüpke: This project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), takes a completely new perspective on the religious history of Mediterranean antiquity, starting from the individual and "lived" religion instead of cities or peoples. "Lived ancient religion" suggests a set of experiences, of practices addressed to, and conceptions of the divine, which are appropriated, expressed, and shared by individuals in diverse social spaces.
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Research Centre „Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present“
Project management
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kranemann Duration
01/2015 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
1 000 000 €
Benedikt Kranemann: The Research Centre is intended to provide a place for research into Jewish religious practices and related discourses, which arose in Germany in the 19th century but was largely interrupted by the National Socialist expulsion and extermination of Jews, and which embeds central questions of recent research in an interdisciplinary research context. The aim is to provide new impulses for a comparative as well as intertwined historical approach by consistently asking about…

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