The Institute for the Study of Religion places particular emphasis on fostering and maintaining ongoing international exchange.
Here you will find an overview of a selection of different levels of collaboration.
-
Work on international committees
- Vice President European Association of the Study of Religions (Wanda Alberts)
- EASR Working Group Religion in Public Education (Wanda Alberts, Christina Wöstemeyer)
-
Collaboration on publications and international peer review
- Peer reviewer for international journals such as Numen, Religion, Implicit Religion, Method & Theory
- Critical Categories in the Study of Religion (Steffen Führding: co-editor of the international book series)
- New edition of Franz Cumont’s publications (published by the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique): Introduction and foreword to “Afterlife in Roman Paganism” (Christa Frateantonio, with John Scheid, Collège de France)
- Implicit Religion (Carmen Becker: co-editor of the international journal)
-
Teaching exchange
- Extensive visiting scholar programme since 2010 (more information available in the Archiv
-
International research visits
- Field trip to Belgium: (Summer Semester 2019) to Brussels-Tervuren to visit the Africa Museum as part of the seminar ‘The Construction of Religion and Culture under Colonialism: The Public Museum as a Medium’
- Field trip to Iran: (Summer Semester 2018)
-
International events & talks
- Theme of the XXXIII Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of Religion and IAHR special conference Conceptualisations of Religion (2019)
- Hijacked!: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion – International conference funded by the DfG in 2017 in Bonn (organisers: Adrian Hermann, Leslie D. Smith, Steffen Führding) and conference proceedings (published in 2020)
