Monday Lectures in the summer semester

The event will kick off on 14 April at 4.15 p.m. with Corinne Bonnet, who will give a total of four lectures over three days under the title "Where do the gods live?":

• 14.04.2025 (4.15 p.m.) – Where do the gods live? (1): "Everything is full of gods"? A comparative mapping of Greek and Semitic gods
• 28.04.2025 (4.15 p.m.) – Where do the gods live? (2): Small polytheism versus universal polytheism
• 05.05.2025 (2.15 p.m.) – Where do the gods live? (3): Divine ecology: to live on, in or below the Earth
• 05.05.2025 (4.15 p.m.) – Where do the gods live? (4): Polis religion: how not to throw the water with the baby

Further dates:

• 12.05.2025 How to spell empire (Gerdien Jonker & Markus Schlaffke)
• 19.05.2025 Religious Studies As We Like It: Annemarie Schimmel's research between emancipatory choice and androcentric compulsion (Paulina Rinne)
• 26.05.2025 The Religious Positioning of Things (Ursula Roth)
• 02.06.2025 Hellenic Polytheism in Contemporary Greece and the Symbolic Struggle over Identity (Efstathios Kessareas)
• 16.06.2025 The early Christians facing the challenge of "war". Interpretations and strategies of coping (Heike Grieser)
• 30.06.2025 Religion, Climate Change, and Risks to Peace and Security: Insights from Mozambique and Zimbabwe (Joram Tarusarira)
• 07.07.2025 History of Religion as Family History: Late Antiquity as a Genealogical and Typological Category of Religious Studies (Andreas Merkt)

Further information on the individual lectures can be found in our calendar of events.