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Re-thinking Judaism’s Encounter with the Roman Empire: Rome’s Political and Religious Challenge to Israel and its Impact on Judaism (2nd Century BCE – 7th Century CE)
ID614424From1 September 2014to6 August 2019FunderEuropean CommissionScholars have studied the history of the relationship between Rome and the Jewish people in Antiquity from many angles; however, they have focused mainly on the political and military confrontation between the two. Recently, scholarship has turned to a new research agenda less focused on conflict: t...Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion in Europe, 400-1200
ID269591From0 May 2011to6 April 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe period between 400 and 1200 AD saw the emergence of new fundamental modes of identification in Europe. Firstly, strong religious identities took shape and became hegemonial over vast regions where Christian communities developed. And secondly, new kingdoms with ethnic denominations were formed,...Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Renaissance Italian Home
ID319475From0 September 2013to4 August 2017FunderEuropean CommissionDomestic Devotions brings together the study of books, buildings, objects, spaces, images and archives in order to understand how religion functioned in the Renaissance household. In opposition to the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’, our research is premised on the view tha...Is Religion Special? Reformulating Secularism and Religion in Legal and Contemporary Theory
ID283867From0 January 2012to6 December 2016FunderEuropean CommissionRAPT (Religion And Political Theory) aims to re-assess the foundations of the special nature of religion in legal and political theory, by reference to the growing body of multi-disciplinary literature about post secularism. Its main research question is: how can the special status of religion in se...Marranism and Western-European Modernity
ID273616From5 June 2012to6 May 2014FunderEuropean Commission"The project „Marranism and Western-European Modernity ” (EuMAR) has a particular approach to European history in modern times analyzing the mode of Jewish existence within this frame. The methodology is innovative and makes use of an exceptional reading of the issue. It is about the specific applic...Islamic fashion and the politics of belonging in contemporary Turkey
ID327169From1 July 2013to2 July 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThis project focuses on the current articulation of the politics of belonging in Turkey and addresses an important question about regions that are ambiguous in relation to European identity and politics and the influence of contemporary Islam. In this project, Islamic fashion is considered a privile...Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion. Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe
ID243837From1 March 2010to5 May 2013FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorEUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEIn recent times, Europe has experienced increasing tensions between national majorities and ethnic or religious minorities, more particularly with marginalised Muslim communities. In some countries challenges relate more to immigrant groups while in other countries they refer to native minority clai...Manifestations of Solitude: Withdrawal and Engagement in the long seventeenth-century
ID313397From5 February 2013to5 March 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThe objective of Manifestations of Solitude: Withdrawal and Engagement in the long seventeenth-century is to demonstrate how the creation of zones of unworldliness within the world structures re-ligious practice. We will examine withdrawal in its historical settings and uncover the facetted na-ture...Pictorial History in Mesoamerican Religions
ID271935From4 March 2012to6 February 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThe highly developed civilisation of the Aztecs in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica used a writing system based on picto- and ideograms, being declassified by colonialists and scientist as evolutionary primitive, preliminary stages of writing so far. In the last few years, however, some US-American scholars...Thick Evaluative Concepts: Value, Reasons, and the Natural World
ID231016From4 January 2009to1 December 2012FunderEuropean CommissionDevelopments in linguistics and metaphysics open unprecedented opportunities for advances using up-to-date methods from these areas in metaethics: an area of moral philosophy that studies these topics as they arise with respect to normative issues. The proposed research is a full-scale study of “thi...Education in Cultural Understanding, Technologically-Enhanced
ID257666From3 September 2010to2 December 2013FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorHERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITYIn 21stC Europe, many cultural, ethnic and religious groups must live and work together. This is not always a smooth process; cultural differences can lead to social stresses and sometimes outright conflict. Thus education in cultural awareness and understanding has a very significant role. This is...Finding a Place for Islam in Europe: Cultural Interactions between Muslim immigrants and Receiving Societies
ID215863From0 February 2009to2 July 2012FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAMThe central research question of this project is: how have different traditions of national identity, citizenship, and church-state relations affected European immigration countries’ incorporation of Islam, and what are the consequences of these approaches for patterns of cultural distance and inter...Religion in selected writings of Voltaire
ID235472From3 April 2009to4 March 2011FunderEuropean CommissionThe main objective of this project is to contribute to the definitive publication and diffusion of the work of Voltaire (1694-1778). His vast output has only been partially edited according to strict philological and critical principles, and often only the most famous works have been studied in any...Political Philosophy in Context: Democracy and Human Rights in Bulgarian, Serbian and Russia Orthodoxy
ID235041From4 October 2009to6 March 2012FunderEuropean CommissionThe project European Orthodoxy addresses the relationship between religion, democracy and human rights using Orthodox Christianity as a case study. It investigates how religious traditions reconcile their universal claims with democratic decision making and individual human rights in modern society...Imperial Government and Authority in Medieval Western Islam
ID263361From5 October 2010to5 September 2016FunderEuropean CommissionMy project is to write a new history of the Almohad Empire (1130-1269). This local dynasty of Berber origins ruled simultaneously over South and North of the Western Mediterranean. For the first time in history, the whole Maghreb was united under an indigenous authority. This unique historical per...Media and Citizenship: Transnational Television Cultures Reshaping Political Identity in the European Union
ID217480From2 April 2008to4 June 2011FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITEIT UTRECHTMedia & Citizenship studies the ways transnational media, in particular Arabic language television, reshape the political landscapes of citizenship (Area 8.5.1) in the European Union. It provides the first European wide empirical research on the use of Arabic language television and its effect on in...GAY AND MUSLIM IN EUROPE
ID298019From4 March 2012to3 April 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThis project aims to allow the applicant (an experienced researcher) to achieve a turn in her career after a two years break, to increase her chances to be recruited as permanent senior researcher, through the acquisition of knowledge, experience in the new field of Gender and Sexualities. The host...Perception of Other Religions
ID229464From3 April 2009to6 March 2012FunderEuropean Commission"The aim of the research project is to provide an extensive analysis of the perception of other religions and their members by Christian authors of the Early and High Middle Ages from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. For the first time ever, the medieval perception of heathens, Jews, Muslims, he...Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam
ID229460From1 December 2008to6 November 2013FunderEuropean CommissionThe project is frontier research in several respects. It aims at crossing the boundaries between 3 main disciplines of academia, viz. Islamic and Jewish Studies and Studies of Eastern Christianity. The followers of the 3 denominations constituted a unique cultural commonality in the medieval world o...By the Rivers of Babylon: New Perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform Texts
ID241118From2 September 2009to1 August 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThis project has the potential to radically change current understanding of cultic and social transformation in the post-exilic temple community of Jerusalem (c. 6th-4th centuries BCE), an important formative phase of ancient Judaism. “BABYLON” draws on recent, ground-breaking advances in the study...Opening Estonian Genome Project for European Research Area
ID245536From2 December 2009to5 November 2012FunderEuropean CommissionThe OPENGENE proposal of Estonian Genome Project, Tartu University arises directly from the institutional SWOT analysis and responds precisely to the objectives of the current call. The general objective of the proposal is opening the EGPUT research potential and biobank resources to ERA. To this en...West African Pentecostal Christianity in Southern Europe. Engendered Spaces, Spiritual Power and Aesthetic Practices
ID302640From1 October 2012to3 September 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThe research proposes to address the social, religious and aesthetic impact of African Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in European cities and societies shaped by Catholicism. This approach is applied to the case study of Nigerian and Ghanaian churches in Italy where the Catholic Church play...The Intellectual and Material Legacies of Late Medieval Sephardic Judaism: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ID209044From1 September 2008to5 August 2012FunderEuropean CommissionFrom the 13th to the 15th centuries, the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula (Sepharad) lived side by side with Christians and Muslims. Although persistent tensions existed between these three groups, their members also participated in a common artistic, intellectual and scientific endeavour that produced...Entangled histories of 'Nature' in the landscape discourses of early modern China and Europe
ID631798From3 October 2014to0 September 2018FunderEuropean CommissionChinese landscape gardens has focused European imagination in the 17th-18th century. Its naturalness is often considered as a source of the naturalistic English landscape garden. It is not understood today that this fascination was a reflection of many shifts of ideas in European societies and scien...The formation of Islam: The view from below
ID209801From0 March 2009to6 February 2015FunderEuropean CommissionMy project is to write a history of the formation of Islam using the vastly important but largely neglected papyri from Egypt. Until the introduction of paper in the 10th C., papyrus was the Mediterranean world’s primary writing material. Thousands of papyrus documents survive, preserving a minutely...