Religion, Urbanity and Trade: Processes of Mercantilisation in Urban Space

In November 2024, the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”, based at the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt and funded by the German Research Foundation, will hold its annual conference on processes of mercantilisation in urban space. The international conference focusses on mercantilisation brought on and shaped by the interaction of religious and urban practices, institutions, and agents. At the core of the conference convened by Heinrich Lang and Susanne Rau lays the triangular relation of economies, religion, and urbanity. This triangular relationship will be approached from different disciplinary perspectives and across historical epochs and regions to come to a more complex understanding of cities in global history.

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