Researching and Teaching at LMU
This website presents the research and teaching activities at the chair for the Study of Religion and the History of Religion at the Faculty for Protestant Theology at the University of Munich (LMU).
Enroling in the Study of Religion at LMU
Are you interested in deepening the multi-faceted world of religions? Or are you intrigued by the role religion assumes in media and politics? Are you looking for a team where you could develop an exciting doctoral project? Information about our programms, modules and possibilities are published here.
Research Group Media and Religion
Since 2004 researchers from diverse disciplines and countries organise research projects and conferences focusing the complex relationship between media and religion.
For Family
For Family is an interdisciplinary project on the transformations, resources and negotiations of family in the contemporary society.
International Exchange on Media and Religion
This international and interdisciplinary initiative develops projects related to the mediatisation of religion. The last project focused on the role of religion in imagining Europe as a common ground. The volume Religion in Representations of Europe. Shared and Contested Practices is published in open access. The coming project aims at scrutinizing the entanglement of crime, media and religion.
Religion, Film and Media
A website on research groups, conferences and publications in the field of media and religion. The interaction between religion, film, and media is a central subject matter in the contemporary research on religion and culture. On this platform, innovative studies with interdisciplinary relevance and projects in theology, the study of religion, film and media studies are presented.
Foundation Lucerna
This foundation stimulates the exchange between humanities and sciences, the arts and the public sphere.
«(…) the social and cultural contexts of the researcher does matter.»