Religious Studies

Ka'ba Tile Osman Ibn Mehmed Turkish Patron `Abdullah Mehmed ca. 1720–30

The study of religion is a major research interest of faculty and figures broadly in teaching, covering the social, political, and cultural history of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and their interactions in comparative perspectives with other cults and religions in different settings, from Europe and the Mediterranean to India, past and present. This includes, for example, the study of late antiquity and its cults and religions as much as of secularization, belief and unbelief, reformist and fundamentalist movements. The study of religion is supported by intense and advanced source language teaching.

Faculty
Students
Courses
Publications
Activities

Aziz Al-Azmeh (Emeritus)

History of Religion and of Irreligion
Historiography
Late Antique Religious, Symbolic and Imperial Transitions
The Muslim East Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Present

István Perczel

Interactions of Early Christianity and Platonist Philosophy
Indian Syriac Christians
History of Late Antique Philosophy

Matthias Riedl

History of Political Thought
History of Religious Thought
Global Intellectual History

Carsten Wilke

Jewish History and Thought
Comparative Religious History
History of the Iberian World

Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar

History of Premodern Gender and Sexualities
Historical Sociolinguistics
Late-Antique and Medieval Intellectual and Religious History

Gábor Klaniczay (Emeritus)

Historical Anthropology of European Christendom (sainthood, miracle beliefs, stigmata, visions, healing, magic, witchcraft)
Comparative Cultural and Religious History of Hungary and Central Europe
Modern and Contemporary Medievalism and its Political Uses

György Geréby

Philosophy, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
Religion, Early Christianity, Latin and Byzantine Theology
Political Theory

M. Brett Wilson

Modernism
Print Culture
Islamic Studies
State Relations with Religious Institutions

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Modern Arab and Middle Eastern Intellectual and Cultural History (18th -21st Centuries)
Islamic Studies
Gender in Arab and Mediterranean Studies in Comparative Perspective
Global and Regional History

Tijana Krstić

Early Modern Ottoman Social, Cultural and Intellectual History
Religious Politics and Intercommunal Relations in Early Modern Eurasian Empires
Islamic Studies
Eastern Christian Studies
Manuscript Studies

Volker Menze

Late Antique Christianity
History of Church Councils
Global Christianities

Karsten Johannes Schuil

Cultural and Intellectual History
Emotional and Sensory History
Medievalisms
Pilgrimage Studies

Marie-Eve Lafontaine

Visual Theory and Practice
Iconographic Studies
History of Emotions
Visual Anthropology

Olha Stasiuk

Canon Law
Legal Studies
Theology and Anthropology

Saranya Chandran

Digital Humanities
Early Modern Kerala
Garshuni Malayalam

Ada Kök

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Political, Religious, and Cultural History
Mediterranean and the Near East

Anja Božič

Humanism
Manuscript Traditions
Paleography

Bernat Racz

Church Treasures
Latin Europe
High Middle Ages

Çiçek Dereli

Byzantine Monasticism
Object and Place Biographies
Urban Anthropology

Dmitry Zharov

Jesuit Education
Habsburg History
Early Modern Christian Confessions
History of Medieval and Early Modern Education

Emy Merin Joy

History of Jesuit Mission in Malabar
Manuscript Traditions
Garshuni Malayalam and Syriac
Jewish-Christian Relations in Kerala and Interreligious Dialogues

Gulrano Ataeva

Labour History
Soviet Central Asia
The interplay of Muslim backgrounds with Soviet secular identities

János Galamb

Islamicate manuscript cultures
Religiosity in the Ottoman Empire
Early modern History

MA Students

As well as PhDs, our MA students study and publish in their chosen research fields. Click on the image above for a list of MA students working in the field of Religious History.