News: Religion Studies

New FIW Working Paper published

We are happy to present Working Paper No. 14, a text on Demagogie und Volkstribune Beobachtungsverhältnisse in Praxen charismatischer Stellvertreterschaft by Julia Stenzel. You can download the working paper as PDF.

Yulia Lokshina (Abt. f. Religionsforschung) erhält für REGELN AM BAND, BEI HOHER GESCHWINDIGKEIT den Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 2020 für den besten deutschen Dokumentarfilm

 

Digitalization Project Complete: British Library Publishes Digitalized Archive of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Dept. f. Religion Studies)

The Endangered Archive Programme of the British Library has financed a digitalization project conducted by Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann with support of the research and digitalization assistants Emyrrh Breccio Y. de Jesus, Ace Lawrence A. Antazo, and Philipp Kuster. Since 2015 the team has been working on a digitalization of the historical sources of the archive of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in the Philippines.

New publication: Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion (hrsg. von L.D. Smith, S. Führding, A. Hermann)

On the conference "Hijacked! A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of 'Good' and 'Bad' Religion" held at FIW from June 7-11, 2017

Department of Religious Studies receives project funding in the competition "Kleine Fächer: Sichtbar innovativ!"

 

New publication in the FIW book series "Global Studies & Theory of Society"

A new book by Stefan Priester, "Film als Weltkunst" has been published in the book series edited by FIW and transcript.

15.01. Documentary, Truth, and the Reality-Based Community

In the last lecture of the FIW series ›Perspektiven der Moderne‹, Erika Balsom, Department of Film Studies of King’s College London, is going to speak about "Documentary, Truth, and the Reality-Based Community".

New FIW Working Paper published

The twelfth FIW working paper was published in Oktober by Giovanni Maltese on the topic of a poststructuralist approach to religion studies. The working paper can be downloaded as PDF.

New FIW Working Paper published

The eleventh FIW working paper was published in August by Rafaela Eulberg, Annika Jacobsen and Petra Tillessen on the topic of migration and attribution of religious identities in Europe. The working paper can be downloaded as PDF.

Workshop "A Global and Local History of the Buona Morte Church"

Dr. Wei Jiang, Department for Religion Studies at FIW, is organizing a workshop with local catholic and orthodox churches in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from November 22-23.