Religion, Society, and World Relations Max-Weber-Kolleg

Max Planck Research Prize "Religion and Modernity: Secularization, Social and Religious Plurality"

Hans Joas searches for the connecting factors and possibilities of understanding between religion and modernity and has developed a model for this purpose with which religious patterns of experience can be interpreted and described.

Duration
01/2016 - 12/2022

Funding
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung :
750 000 Euro

Project management

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joas
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joas
Associated Fellow (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)

Prof. Joas' field of research includes the relationship between religion and modernity. This often leads to areas of conflict in which non-believers and religiously influenced people are uncomprehending, if not hostile towards each other, as well as members of different religions. Hans Joas searches for what unites us and for possibilities of understanding and has developed a model for this purpose, with which religious patterns of experience can be interpreted and described.

 

Research project website

Max Planck Research Prize "Religion and Modernity: Secularization, Social and Religious Plurality"

 

Project coordination

Bettina Hollstein
Bettina Hollstein
Managing Director
(Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
Research Building "Weltbeziehungen" C19.00.26
+49 361 737-2802
bettina.hollstein@uni-erfurt.de
Office hours
on appointment
Profile page
Religious studies

Cooperation partner

Prof. Dr. José Casanova

Profile field

Religion. Gesellschaft. Weltbeziehung.