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Center for Religious Studies

The Center for Religious Studies (CRS) is a cross-departmental unit whose mission to initiate and to coordinate research, academic events, and publications that address religion-related questions in critical ways. CRS collaborates its teaching activities with ten partner departments and academic units at CEU.

Nov
Bichitr: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings (1618); Courtesy by Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution

Imperial Mysticisms: Piety and Power in Early Modern Empires from a Global Perspective

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium B
Nov
Jesuits at Akbar's Court, miniature painting by Nar Singh, ca. 1605

Mysticism and Empire: Towards a Global Comparative Analysis

Alan Strathern
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium B
Oct
Eugène Delacroix: Méphistophélès apparaissant à Faust

The Myths of Faust and the Pact with the Devil

Frank Baron
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 101 (Quantum Room)
Oct
CEU Building

Religious Studies between the Disciplines: Contemporary Perspectives

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Sep

CRS & ACRS AY 2019/20 Welcome Reception and Information Session

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jun

SZEGED: Center for Religious Studies, CEU / Szeged University Doctoral Conference 2019

Off-campus | Egyetem utca 2, 6722 Szeged HU, Hungary
Jun

SZEGED - Opening Keynote Lecture: Social Spaces and the Topography of the Divine - Reading Landscape in the Song of Songs

Carsten L. Wilke
Off-campus | Egyetem utca 2, 6722 Szeged HU, Hungary
Jun

Manichaean Cosmology in a Medieval Chinese Painting

Gábor Kósa
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May

The Universalistic Judaism of Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900) American Reform Rabbi

Stefan Schorch
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Mar

New Views of Synagogue Architecture

Rudolf Klein, Mohammad Gharipour
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Mar

Religion and Non-religion in Museums

Tomáš Bubík
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

Pious Reading as Spiritual Practice: A Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad from Twelfth-Century Iberia

Dagmar Riedel
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

Blending In: Ambient Faith, Pronatalism, and the Question of a State Church in Contemporary Russia

Sonja Luehrmann
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Feb
The CEU Campus

PhD Workshop on Secularism - Postsecularism

Sonja Luehrmann
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan

Beirut: Striking from the Margins: State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East

Off-campus | 42nd Street 3208, 68601 Columbus US, United States
Nov

French Secularism in the 21st Century

Jean-Christophe Peaucelle
Nov
The CEU Campus

The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey

Murat Akan
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Nov

Religious Facets of Neo-Medievalism in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Levant: Heresy, Sacred Space, Religious Warfare

Yuri Stoyanov
Budapest Site | Nador u. 11
Nov

Secularism from a Contemporary Philosophical Perspective

David Weberman
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov
The CEU Campus

Atomick Atheists and Plastick Nature: Disquisitions on Matter, Spirit, and Unbelief in the Scientific Revolution

Karl Hall
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov

Sectarianism in Syria’s Civil War

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Oct

The Post-Secular Construct in Syria: From Neo-Liberalism to Systemic Collapse

Harout Akdedian
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

Disenchantment Disenchanted at the Turn of the Millennium

Aziz Alazmeh
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

Anti-Modernist Conversions in the Nineteenth Century

Carsten L. Wilke
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Oct

Whence the Post-secular? A Critical Look at the Field

Vlad Naumescu
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building