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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.

Sep

Why is the Quranic Text Problematic? Muhammad’s Message between Apocalypse and Empire

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Sep

Syria’s Passage to Uprising and Conflict: The End of the “Rentier Fix” and the Consolidation of a New Elite Rule

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jul

From Humanities to Social Sciences: Visionary Experience in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective Workshop, 3-5 July 2017

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jul

Padre Pio and Saint Francis of Assisi: The emulation of models in the lives and cults of a contemporary and a medieval saint

Gábor Klaniczay
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jun

CEU Doctoral Conference 2017: Enchantments, Disenchantments, Re-enchantments

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jun

Judaism and Islam in the Mind of Europe: Studying Religion in a Secular Age

Guy Stroumsa
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jun

Dr Seteney Shami - The Social Sciences in the Arab Region: Gaps, Elisions and Glosses

Seteney Shami
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May

Beings Without Bodies and the Discourse of Evil in Contemporary Catholic Exorcism

Thomas Csordas
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May

Dr Isam Al-Khafaji: Reconfiguring the State, Restructuring Communities

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May

Farewell to Shulamit: Spatial and Social Diversity in the Song of Songs

Carsten L. Wilke, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Matthias Riedl, Gábor Buzási
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May

Keynote Lecture: Write in the Name of Thy Lord...

François Déroche
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May

Paleo-Qur'anic Manuscripts Conference: State of the Field

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Apr

Dr Harout Akdedian: The Rise of Radicalized Groups and the New Social Order in Syria

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Apr

Dr Harith Al-Qarawee: Shi’i Clerics and the Transformation of Authority in Iraq

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Mar

Reading the Qu‘ran among Ex-Conversos: On a seventeenth century Spanish translation of the Qu‘ran in the Library of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam

Harm den Boer
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

Prof Don Kalb: State Collapse, Fragmentation and 'Resource Bases' in Anthropology

Don Kalb
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Mar

Where are the Boundaries of Religion? Considerations on the emergence of a global religious field and on processes of sacralization

Volkhard Krech
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

Evolution, conflict patterns and management practices of the India-Pakistan border

Happymon Jacob
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Feb
The CEU Campus

Southeast Asians and the Syrian Conflict

Sidney Jones
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan

Religion of the Finite Life? Messianicity and Finitude in Late Derrida

Agata Bielik-Robson
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan

The History of Freethinking: Moods, Motifs, Milieux and Moments

Aziz Alazmeh
Budapest Site | Nador u. 11
Dec

Hidden Galleries: Materialising Religion in the Secret Police Archives in 20th Century Romania and Moldova

James Kapalo
Off-campus | Quantum Lakes Drive 2500, 33426 Boynton Beach US, United States
Jun

The Materiality of Reading

Peter Stallybrass
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
May

The Qurʾānic Text in the Formative Period of Islam

Shady Nasser, Alba Fedeli
Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7
Mar

Violence, Our Inherent Heritage: The case of Islam

Istvan Kristo-Nagy
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building