Intangible Causes, Ambiguous Materials: Constellated Cosmologies of Urban Inequalities

 Buddhism in the Life of Ulaanbaatar: Nucleus, Trace and Bustling Urbanite

Writing the Fifth Gospel

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Construction of Churches in Palestine, 1900–1954: Architecture and Religious Control

Shared Sanctuaries and Urban Co-spatiality in Contemporary Istanbul

The SpaceTime of Urban Violence and Policing in the British Empire: The Riots in Belfast (c. 1857-1935) and in Jerusalem during the British Mandate

Weitere Städte: Jerusalem

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Typologising Cities: Historical and Methodological Reflections 

Claiming the City as Our Own: Group Formation in Contested Cities during the Riots in Belfast (1857) and Jerusalem (1920) 

Crafting Places, Re-Crafting Cities. Religion and Urbanity in Vergil’s Aeneid

Communication and Early Christianity in Alexandria (2nd century CE). The Treatise on the "Divine Monarchy" as a "Test Case"

Death and the Dead in the City - A Case Study on Roman and Late Antique Athens

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Elites, Urban Space and Burials in Roman Imperial Athens

Highly Visible Social Agents and the Lack of Monumentality of Cult Buildings in Pre-Roman Macedonia

Das gemeinsame Baden der Christen: Konflikte urbaner Akteure und Institutionen in den literarischen Quellen

Social History and Religion- Amritsar City: Orality and Ethnography

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Religion, Religiosity and the Urban World: Everyday Lives of People in Amritsar City, Punjab, India

Between the Earthly Valley of Tears and Heavenly Jerusalem. Mutual Influences of Religious Norms and Urban Concepts of Space in Early Modern Nuremberg, Basel, London, and Boston (1600-1750)

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Basel, London, Boston

Doing Religious Space in the Mediterranean City: Towards a Historical Sociology of Urban Religion

Religious Networks and the Making of Maritime Cities: Case Studies of Reciprocity in South Asia (c. 500-1300 CE)

Spaces of the Sacred: Religious Practice in Urban Interstice

Liminal Spaces: the River-ghāṭ as Threshold, Boundary, and Urban Palimpsest

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Ordering the Dead? Urban Burials in London and Munich, c. 1550-1870

Weitere studierte Städte: München

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Co-Spatiality in the Early Modern European Bedchamber

Divine Power and Urban Norms: Danzig’s Policeyordnungen as Early Modern Guides to Urbanity

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Le roy est entré dans notre ville: Examining how the Valois Monarchy Interacted with the Centre and Periphery, 1560-1574

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Lyon, Blois, Amboise

Constructing a Monarchical and Religious Connection: Angoulême, the Royal Tour, and the French Wars of Religion

Muslims and Urban Marginality in Mumbai

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Ritual Pollution, Secular Filth and the Politics of Cleansing Mumbai

The Sacred Centres at the Periphery of Besnagar, the Ancient Town of Vidiśā (2^nd Century BCE to 5^th Century CE)

Rumour and Religion in Classical Athens

“Othering” of Religious Groups in Urban Spaces: 16th Century Mandates against Anabaptism in German Cities

Weitere Städte: 

Nürnberg, Esslingen und Straßburg

Sacred Space, Urbanism and Intersection between Tradition and Modernity: the Case of Srirangam in the Tamil Region of South India

As a Nautilus Shell…Religious Diversity and Urbanity. An Historical Journey

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Seeing Religion: Religious Diversity and Urbanity

Adapted Landscapes: Urban Spaces and Religious Movements in Long Late Antiquity

Andere untersuchte Städte: Ravenna, Mainz, Arles

Redefining the Sacred in Modern European Architecture: Bruno Taut, Rudolf Steiner, Le Corbusier and the Construction of Sacred Space

Co-Temporality

Urbanising the Gospel Tradition

Precarious Belonging: Religious Options and Engagements with the World in a Metropolitan Context. The case of Dalits in Dharavi

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Precarious Belonging. Religious Options and Engagements with the World in a Metropolitan Context. The case of Dalits in Dharavi (Mumbai)

Precarious Belonging. Religious Options and Engagements with the World in a Metropolitan Context. The case of Dalits in Dharavi (Mumbai)

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Religion and Urbanity in its Formation: A Case Study from Early Rome and Central Italy

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Städte in Latium

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The Role of Religion at the Birth of First Cities and State Organisation in Central Italy (1100–500 BCE)

Religious urbanization in global times

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Lagos

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Urbanisation and City-making in African Christianities: Remapping the New Jerusalem

Urban Magistrates, Country Sacralised Spaces, and the Wild. The Case of the Gods Bacax and GD in the Caves of Ancient Numidia

The Islam and the City: Building Religious and Urban Spaces in the Middle Ages

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From Corduba in Hispania to Qurtuba in al-Andalus: The Making of a Western Islamic Capital

Mystagogue: small-time religious entrepreneurs as a type of individualisation in the Roman Empire

Where to Put Newcomer Cults. Religious Placemaking in Athens and Attica

The Materiality of Charity. Linking People, Places, and Objects in Late Medieval Austrian Towns

Social Media, Ritual Mourning and Right to the City: Ithna Ashari Shi‘as in Kolkata

Religious Violence and Civic Militia: The Massacre at Sens (1562) and its Aftermath

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Early Buddhism and its Urban Environment

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Vaisali, Raijgir,Sravastil, Kausambi, Rajgha, Deprung

Urban Boundary Making in Roman Italy and Palestine: Thinking, Building, and Ritual Demarcation

(mit Gil Klein)

City as Light Space - Natural and Artificial Light in the Context of Urban Concepts on the Threshold from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Aachen, Köln, Münster

From ‘Sacred Topography’ to ‘Sacralizable Topography’ (Imperial and Late Antique Rome)

Mapping Urban and Religious Changes in Swat / Uddiyana (1st-10th c. CE). The City and its Hinterland

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Ritual Deposits and Foundation of Cities in Indo-Greek Gandhāra

Spatialising Buddhist Practices in Gandharan Urban Spaces

Reconceiving religions and public spaces: Southern European cities in the age of revolutions

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Neapel, Madrid, Lissabon, Porto, Athen

Religion and Communities in a River-City: Co-living and Contestations in Varanasi

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Construction and Transformation of a Sacred City: The Religioscape of Varanasi

Compound Metamorphoses and the Spirit of the City of Amritsar

Water in Urban South Asia: Architecture, Space and Meaning

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Dabhoi, Somnath, Viramgam, Vadnagar

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Vāstu śāstra as Ideological Guides to South Asian Urbanity: (5th–15th Century and Beyond)

Tangible and Imagined Spatialities around Water: Munsar Lake as a Study Case of South Asian Hydro-space (Viramgam, India, 11th-12th centuries)

Alternative Urbanities. Mapping Gardens and Reservoirs in Pre-modern Indian Cities (the Case of Vadnagar)

Narratives of Secularisation in the Early 20^th Century and the Visual Media of their Mediation – Religion and the City in Tourist Photobooks („Das Gesicht der Städte“, Albertus-Verlag, 1927–1929)

Transnational Buddhism and Ambedkarite Migration

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Tokyo, Taipei, Dubai, London, Birmingham/Wolverhampton, and Detroit

"A city and a mother in Israel": Urban Stories and Their Social Background and Significance in Rabbinic Culture

Weitere Städte: Tiberias, Lydda, Caesarea

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A Guide to the Rabbinic Market Place: Roman Palestine in the 3rd–4th Centuries

Begräbnisse und Totengedächtnis im öffentlichen Raum großer protestantischer Ostseestädte vom 16. bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts (Danzig, Elbling, Königsberg, Stettin)

Urban Boundary Making in Roman Italy and Palestine: Thinking, Building, and Ritual Demarcation

(mit Annette Haug)

Urban Religion in Competition with Kosmos Religion: From the Urban Ethnic to the Kosmos Trans-Ethnic Type of Religion

Prayers, paintings, poems: lay brotherhoods between city and cathedral in French urban centers

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Amiens, Abbeville, Dieppe

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Paintings, Poetry, and Prayers. Lay Confraternities and Their Artistic Devotion Between 1400 and 1750 in French Urban Centres

Urbanity and Nonreligion in Utopias: Two Imagined Cities in their Relation to Religion and its Other

Daily Life Spatialities of Religiosity in Ottoman Tunis

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Conceptualising Urbanity, Reinterpreting Coexistence: A ḥisba Manuscript of the Late Ottoman Era in Tunis

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Accounting in the Name of God. Urban Perspectives in Florentine and Genoese Trade with the Levant and Maghreb (1400-1550)

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Florenz, Genf, Tunis, Alexandria, Kairo, Beirut, Konstantinopel/Pera

Religion and Urbanity: Tamil Hindu Aspirations and Negotiations of Space in Paris

Mapping Urban Deathscapes. The burial and commemoration practices within the experienced city of Rome

Which Urbanity is Babel the name of?

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Urbanity and Humanity: Babel as an Open Myth

Co-Spatiality: An Introduction

Roman Urban Entertainments and Christianizing Cultures in Late Antiquity

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Alexandria, Karthago, Konstantinopel

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‘Talk of the Town’: Sociability, the Culture of Spectacles and Religiosity in Roman and Late Roman Metropolitan Cities

The Infrastructures of Religiocity in Acre. Materialities of Faiths and their Politics in a Mixed Israeli City

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ReligioCity: Towards a Theory of Urban Religion and Religion in Urbanity

Materialities of Urban Religion: Grey Spacing the City through the Sacred. A View from Contemporary Tel Aviv

Urban Space-Time in Second Century Christ Religion

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Alexandria, Ephesos

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New Testament Urbanities

Spaces and Ways of Belonging: The Religiosity of Changing Urban Communities in Late Medieval East Central Europe

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Sopron, Bratislava, Pozsony

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Typologising Cities: Historical and Methodological Reflections

Roman Republican Drama Between ‘Religion’ and ‘Urbanity’

From Little Medina to Mega-city. The Making and Unmaking of the Sacred City of Delhi

The Mob outside the Walls: urban communities and religiously motivated mass processions

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Nürnberg, Möckmühl, Paris, Tours, Orléans, Bourges

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Religious Violence in European Cities Initiated by Wandering Crowds during the 13th Century

Perforating Urban Boundaries with Processions in the European High and Late Middle Ages

The Rise of Vernacular Grammar in the Context of Urbanity and Religion

Religious crossroads at the intersection of the mofussil (non-urban region), the secondary urban centre, and the imperial centre in early modern North India

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Ludihana

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Which Urbanity? Secondary Urban Centres and Their Attendant Religious Formations

Heterarchical Power Relations in an Early Modern Punjabi Sufi Literary Work

Urban Spaces and Female Laundry Workers in 1940s Dublin

Staging Urbanity in Late Medieval Prague and Nuremberg Squares

Cult Constructions in Ukrainian and British Literature (Theory)

Utopian and Dystopian Cities at Work: Challenging Imaginations of the City in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

The Stoa as a Microcosm. Did the Painted Porch of Athens Influence Zeno’s Theology?

Late Antique Churches in Gerasa, Jordan, as Reflections of Urban Heterarchies

Religion and the Urban: Network Evolutions Perspectives as Lenses

Spatialising Urban Religious Aspirations in Singapore: New Creation Church and the Building of The Star

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Sprecherin der KFG "Religon & Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations"

Urbanity. History, theory and analysis of spatio-temporal and religious dynamics in European and South Asian cities

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Hamburg, Lyon

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Canons, Councillors and Confrères: Changing Power Constellations in the City of Lyon (Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Times)

Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (together with Jörg Rüpke)

Urbanity (urbanitas, Urbanität, urbanité, urbanità, urbanidad…) — An Essay

Typologising Cities: Historical and Methodological Reflections

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space 

Citizenship and religion in the 1^st-millennium-BC Mediterranean: Etruria and Iberia

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Tarquinia

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Violence, Power and Religion in the South Etruscan Archaic City-State

Religion and Urbanity: Difference and Commonality in Religious Processions

Sprecher der KFG "Religion & Urbanity" (FOR 2779)

Gods and Cities

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Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (together with Susanne Rau)

Religion and the Urban

Foundation Stories: Concepts of Urbanity in Augustan Rome

Heterarchy of Religious and Political Agents in Ancient Rome

Blurring Boundaries: Urban Religion Beyond the City(mit Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli)

Urban Piety between Resonance and Dissonance. Seville and Lisbon from the Perspective of German Jesuits

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Sevilla

"Eine Anzahl Bücher zum … Geschenke“. Stiftungen und Nachlässe für die Erfurter Ministerialbibliothek in der Frühen Neuzeit

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space)

Coffee, Kayf, and Conversation: The Co-Spatiality of Coffeehouses in Early Modern Ottoman Aleppo

Urban Spaces and Dilemmas of Perception in the Ancient Indian Subcontinent

The spirit of the city: Urbanism and religion in India

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Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India

Sound, scent, sight, spatial sensing, taste, touch and smell in religious rituals and in urban spaces in Surat and Golconda. On sensory reception and receptiveness in travelogues to India (1600-1800).

Reformierter Stadtraum: Zur Sichtbarkeit des neuen Glaubens im 16. Jahrhundert

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Reformed Space. The Visibility of the New Faith in 16th-Century Zurich

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space 

Boundaries of Lived Religion in Ancient Rome and Contemporary China

Cathedral Cities in Context. Bishops Seats in Medieval East Central Europe as Urban and Religious Centres

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Prag, Kalocsa, Olomouc, Gniezno, Pécs, Krakau

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From Model to Rival? Competition or Complementarity in Bishops’ Seats in East Central Europe

Towns and Trade Networks along the Malabar Coast: A Comparative Study of Calicut and Kannur (15th to 18th Centuries)

Kol Nidre on Broadway, Jazz Singers in the Shul: Cinema and the Transformation of the High Holidays in New York City

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Sunday Laws and Sunday Liberties: Religious Nativism, Urban Cultural Politics and the Regulation of Cheap Amusements in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

Spatial Formations of "Geist": Edgar Salin s Nomological Concept of Statehood and its Relation to the Circle of Stefan George (Theorie)

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Poetry as Political Religion? Dimensions of Stefan George in Edgar Salin’s Concept of Urbanity

Citifying Jesus: Early Christians Making of an Urban Religion (1st-5th CE)

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Rom, Smyrna

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The Poverty Plateau: The Space of the Urban Street Poor in Early Christian Literature

Urban Distances: Christians’ Guidelines to Secrecy and Discretion

Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion

Heterarchy and the Urban: Re-Envisioning Order to Account for Change

Blurring Boundaries: Urban Religion Beyond the City (mit Jörg Rüpke)

Making New Faith In/Visible. Religious Movements and Urban Space

Authority and Gender. Conflicts over Abbesses and Provosts in Southwest German Urban Monasteries (15th/16th Century)

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Konstanz, Ellwangen

Comparative Cultural World Relations/ Kulturvergleichende Weltbeziehungen (Theory)

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World Relations and the Production of Urban Realities: On Space and Action, City and Urbanity

Interactions between city population and mendicant communities in Transylvania before the Reformation

Festival Hubs. Deep-mapping sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

Weitere untersuchte Städte: Stratonikeia, Karya, Magnesia, Pergamon

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Connecting the Greeks Multi-Scalar Festival Networks in the Hellenistic World