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A01 Divine Property. Solutions from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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)

Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024

Project management

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke
Holder of the Professorship for Comparative Religious Studies (Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft) (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
+49 361 737-2871
+49 361 737-2809
Prof. Dr. Markus Vinzent
Prof. Dr. Markus Hermann Vinzent
Fellow and Member of the Meister-Eckhart-Research Centre (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
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+49 361 737-2809

Team

Dr. Sofia Bianchi Mancini

Dr. Maria Dell'Isola

Dr. Mario Resta

Main project

Related projects

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Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa,
Dr. Jörg Oberthür
B01: Contestation over Property Regimes and Housing: (Un)doing Commodified Urban Land Ownership in India and Germany Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs
A01: Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Dr. Sofia Bianchi Mancini,
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke,
Prof. Dr. Markus Hermann Vinzent
A03: Property as a Medium of Habit Formation: On the Political Anthropology of Property in the 19th Century Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lothar Kleeberg,
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow
A02: Racial Capitalism: Property Relationships of Black Families in the Age of Segregation Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat
C06 Making things available Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa,
Dr. Jörg Oberthür
C01 Hybrid ownership structures Prof. Dr. Carsten Caspary
Clash or Convergence of capitalisms PD Dr. Stefan Schmalz
B01 Urban property regimes Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs,
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Renzi
A03 Property and habit Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lothar Kleeberg,
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow
A02 Property in the body Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat,
PD Dr. Felix Krämer

The subproject is based on the hypothesis that ancient practices such as sacrificial offerings, prayer and pilgrimage, and theories attributing property rights to gods had far-reaching consequences:

They provided a context in which to experiment with the concept of property, encouraged reflection on ownership structures, and turned ownership and the renunciation thereof into key aspects of religious practice. By analysing diachronic sources, the project explores the internal dynamism of that hypothesis and its contribution to the development of property as a concept.

property research religious practices

Cooperation partner

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Universität Oldenburg

FU Berlin

TU Darmstadt

Profile field

Religion, Society, and World Relations

Knowledge, Spaces, and Media