The Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics announces its (first/next) international summer school for graduate students to take place at Frankfurt University, 7–17 September 2025.
The summer school will focus on several aspects of interreligious dynamics across a broad array of historical, systematic, and political dimensions ranging from antiquity to the present. It will be based on 6–8 individual four-hour seminar meetings accompanied by more general keynote lectures, private tutorial sessions, and student presentations. At this preliminary stage, we would like to invite you to offer a topic for such a four-hour unit that can be integrated into this general framework. While preparing your proposal please consider the following key questions:
How are elements of community building and cultural memory represented in the interreligious space? How do they contribute to meaningful moments of religious memory (and forgetting)?
How can we conceptualize the dynamics of positioning and self-positioning in a pluralistic religious environment?
What are the unique preconditions and results of such interrelations in a monotheistic framework? What differentiates a monotheistic “trading zone” from other religious frameworks?
What are the political implications of such interrelated monotheisms? How were they transformed in a historical perspective in pre-modern, modern, and postmodern times?
- Teacher: Judith Müller