Research at the Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion

Collaborative Research Centres (CRC)

• CRC 447 "Cultures of the Performative"

• Section A7: "Ritual and Risk. The Performativity of Play Between Cultural Anthropology, Religion and Art"

  • Subproject "The risks of ritualism: ancient and modern anthropology between scholarship and art" (Information - German only)

  • Subproject "Play and risk in theories of ritual within the anthropology of religion"
    Unterprojekt: „Spiel und Risiko in religionsanthropologischen Ritualtheorien" (Information - German version only!)

  • Subproject "The maze as scope and playground in the middle and early modern ages" (Information - German version only!)

• CRC 644 "Transformations of Antiquity"

  • Subproject B 08:  "The different god. Constructions of Dionysus in modernity"

    • Focus Area 1: Religious-historical constructions of Dionysus and modern culture

    • Focus Area 2: Literary constructions of the modern Dionysus

• CRC 626 "Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits"

  • Research project C7: "Inspiration and Subversion: Artistic Creation as Aesthetic-Religious Experience"

    • Subproject 1: ‘Poeta Creator’ as ‘Poeta Doctus’. Transformations of Inspiration in Modernity (Prof. Dr. Renate Schlesier)

    • Subproject 2: Inspiration, Language Mysticism and Transpersonalism (Hans Stauffacher, M.A. and Cornelia Temesvári, M.A.)

    • Subproject 3: Clerical Concepts of Inspiration and Authorship. On Current Questions in Medieval Studies (Dr. Beatrice Trinca)
      

Further projects funded by the 'Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, 'German Research Association')

• "The 'Return of Religion' and the Return of the Criticism of religion – The 'New Atheism' in recent German and American culture"

  • Project supervision: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zinser
  • Staff: Thomas Zenk, M.A. / Ulf Plessentin, M.A.
  • Student research assistants: Michelle Chinitz, Kia Sanger, Timo Schuster

• "Life, Work, and Reception of the German-Jewish Historian and Judaist Marianne Awerbuch"

  • Project supervision: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zinser

  • Staff: Clarissa Busse, M.A.

• "Religiöse Polysemantiken im Kontext. Yoginiverehrung in Nord- und Zentralindien in Geschichte und Gegenwart"

  • Link (German version only!)
  • Project supervision: Dr. István Keul

BMBF-Project "Theater und Fest in Europa"

• Research project "Theater und Fest in der Antike" (German only!) (Project supervision: Prof. Dr. Renate Schlesier)
• Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Link)

VW Tandem-Project

• "Vom Imperialmuseum zum Kommunikationszentrum? Zur neuen Rolle des Museums als Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und nicht-westlichen Gesellschaften"

  • Link to the project website (German version only!)
  • Project supervision: Lidia Guzy, Rainer Hatoum, Susan Kamel

Further Research Projects

• "Die Kategorie 'Geschlecht' in der Religionswissenschaft" (Link - German only)

  • Project supervision: PD Dr. Susanne Lanwerd

  • supported by the Berliner Programm zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre, 2004-2006

  • Susanne Lanwerd is an associated scientist of the (DFG funded) Graduiertenkolleg "Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie" at the Humboldt University of Berlin

eLearning Project

• "Religion in History and Society" (Link - German only!)

An overview about past projects you can find in the archive (Link - German only!).