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UrbRel podcasts: Corinna Riva & Harry Maier
No full textIn this week's edition of our podcasts Corinna Riva (UCL), the 202/21 Distinguished Fellow at the Max Weber Centre and member of our UrbRel research group, talks to Harry Maier about his research and the books and music he'd take to that island out at sea. Harry Maier is professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the Vancouver School of Theology and last came to Erfurt in the summer of 2022 as a visiting fellow to the UrbRel group. Among his recent publications are two artic..
Take a look at the UrbRel glossary!
No full textFollowing the 2022 annual conference on "Urbanity - History, Concept, Uses", we are delighted to publish the first entires of the UrbRel glossary. More entries will follow during 2023, for now we are starting with: Citification Heterarchy Co-Spatiality Spatialisation Living together Religious ambivalences Spatial Fix Space/Place Spatial Capital More info on the background of the glossary can be found on our blog's subpage here
Introducing the UrbRel glossary
No full textIn January 2022, the UrbRel group was successfully evaluted by the German Research Foundation (DFG). As a result, we will continue to work for a second funding phase until 2026. During this time, we will continue within our chosen temporal and spatial framework of the first millennium BC until today in Europe, the Mediterranean and South Asia. We will also further develop and apply the UrbRel research programme, exploring the mutual formation of religion and urbanity as a fruitful perspectiv..
New Glossary Entries: Urbanity, Co-Temporality, Mediation, Religion
No full textFour new entries have been added to the UrbRel glossary, in some cases with accompanying videos by the authors. You can find an overview on all entries on this blog or on the "Religion and Urbanity" website. The new entires are: Urbanity by Susanne Rau Religion by Jörg Rüpke Co-Temporality by Aaron French Mediation/Mediatisation by Mateusz Fafinsk
Martin Christ receives 2022 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award
No full textDr Martin Christ of the “Religion and Urbanity” research group has received the 2022 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award for first monograph. The award was bestowed on Christ’s “Biographies of a Reformation: Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520-1635”, published with Oxford University Press in 2021. Its the third book award for Christ, who is a Junior Fellow with the UrbRel group since 2018. He shares the award with Zachary Guiliano’s “The Homiliary of Pa..
Urban Co-Temporalities: Joint Conference
No full textUpdate: The conference programme and book of abstracts are now available. The UrbRel group, together with the SpatioTemporality group at Erfurt university, is organising an international conference on urban co-temporalities. The conference in February 2024 focuses on multiple temporalities within an urban environment that appear to coexist. It investigates the question of co-temporalities in the urban setting and asks whether such a concept could prove useful for analyzing the connectivity b..
Buddhismus und die vietnamesische Diaspora in Erfurt
No full text--- Lena Bauer, Nils Schersand und Levi Zobel This blog post was researched and written by students participating in the 2023 lecture series “Global Exchanges – Trade, Knowledge, and Religion“. The lecture series was organised by Elisa Iori and Mateusz Fafinski of the UrbRel group. Einleitung Religionsfreiheit als fundamentales Gut der bundesdeutschen Demokratie und des lokalen Beisammenseins wird auch in Erfurt großgeschrieben. Nachdem die erste sichtbare Moschee letztes Jahr in Erfur..
Lecture Series 2023: Global Exchanges - Trade, Knowledge, and Religion
No full textElisa Iori and Mateusz Fafinski of the UrbRel research group are organising a public lecture series in the 2023 summer term at the university of Erfurt. In a world where economies, goods, technology, information, and populations are constantly on the move across cultural and national boundaries, the question of the wide-ranging effects of the global mobility and exchange on societies has been at the forefront of academic research over the last four decades. Acknowledging that multi-layer..
Water as an Urban Technology in Medieval India – An Introduction by Sara Keller
No full text--- Yanitsa Ganeva As a part of the lecture series “Global Exchanges – Trade, Knowledge, and Religion” in the summer term 2023 at the University of Erfurt Dr. Sara Keller delivered a lecture on the subject of water in medieval India. Organized by Dr. Elisa Iori and Dr. Mateusz Fafinski of the UrbRel research group, the lecture series examined the question of the wide-ranging effects of global mobility and exchange on societies through different perspectives and examples. One of them was pr..
New entries in “Religion and Urbanity online” (upload 2/2024)
No full textThe peer-reviewed, open access database of the “Religion and Urbanity” research group, which is published by De Gruyter and edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke, has been updated with eleven new articles: Albrecht, Mara. "Claiming the City as Our Own: Group Formation in Contested Cities during the Riots in Belfast (1857) and Jerusalem (1920)". Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.30233699 Alciati,..
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