Ph.D. students should pursue one of the topics (showcases) suggested by the members of the faculty as listed below. Further proposals developed by applicants for research projects that fit the
framework of “Resonant Self–World Relations” in the above named disciplines are welcome.
More information about the suggested projects.
in Erfurt
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke (Religious Studies)
- Platform of encounters or a table for offerings?
- Is there somebody else out there? Polemics and counter-polemics on ancient astral
religion
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Sociology)
- Rock concerts and football stadiums as ‘bowls of hysteria’
- Does the world fall silent or continue to sing? On revitalising religious ritual practices
in secular contexts
Prof. Dr. Kai Brodersen (Classics)
- Curative stones?
- The creation of holy sites and early pilgrimage
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat (North American History)
- Worshipping nature and the body: The personal, political, and spiritual dimension of
the alternative food movement in the 1970s - Personal testimonies and conversion experiences in the age of fitness
Dr. Georgia Petridou (Ancient Greek History)
- Resonating bodies: Anatomical votives and incubation rituals in the Asclepieion of
Pergamum - Resonating Mysteries in the Second Sophistic. An exploration of the mysteric language
and iconography in Lucian’s Alexander the Pseudo-Prophet and Galen’s On the Usefulness
of the Parts
Prof. Dr. Markus Vinzent (History of Theology, Patristics)
- The reception of the gospels as a practice of world adaptation
- Purpose and relation of non-historicising and historicising early Christian narratives
Prof. Dr. Katharina Waldner (Religious Studies)
- Resonating presence after death? The depositio ad sanctos in late antiquity
- The body as medium in initiation rituals (teletaí) of ancient religion
