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Prof. Dr. Friederike Nüssel
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Ökumenisches Institut
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69117 Heidelberg
Friederike.Nuessel@oek.uni-heidelberg.de

Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder
Deputy spokesperson
Germanistisches Seminar
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69117 Heidelberg
ekkehard.felder@gs.uni-heidelberg.de

Dr. Nele Schneidereit
Management / Coordination
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69117 Heidelberg
Tel. +49 6221 54-3964
nele.schneidereit@uni-heidelberg.de

 
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Multiple Reformations? The Heidelberg-Notre Dame Dialog on the Legacies of the Reformation

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jan Stievermann (Faculty of Theology)

Funding line: Cultural Heritage and History

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this interdisciplinary project is bringing together a group of theologians and historians from the universities of Heidelberg and Notre Dame, the leading Catholic university in North America. We will be meeting four times from 2016 to 2018 to discuss the following questions. a) How do we interpret and assess the Reformation as a historical and theological event, as a historiographic category, and as a cultural myth from the perspective of different disciplines and confessional traditions? b) What are the long-term global legacies of the Reformation as manifest in the development of distinct Christian world religions and competing confessional cultures, producing different types of modernities? To compare different confessional modernities we will look at how Catholic and Protestant theologies and lived religions interacted with the development of modern empires and nation-states, with the emergence of the natural, historical and biblical sciences, as well as with divergent legal cultures and traditions in education and social welfare. c) Finally, the colloquia will also address the challenging question regarding how the Reformation should be commemorated (or can be celebrated) from an ecumenical perspective today.

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