The Eurasian Religions in Contact Summer School provides a format for introducing and discussing cutting-edge research relating to the problems of studying global inter-religious relations. The summer school will examine such diverse topics as gender, media, digital humanities and material culture. Aimed at doctoral and advanced masters’-level students, ERiC encourages students from around the world to consider religious studies from multiple political and cultural standpoints, giving them the opportunity to create an international network of like-minded junior scholars.

The approach of the ERiC Summer School is historical: looking at religious interaction across time as well as geography. Christian-Muslim contacts in the past give hints at current issues; Buddhism’s role as a conduit through which many ideas shifted from India to Tibet and China looks at the ties that bind in Asian history; interreligious contacts in medieval and early medieval Ethiopia foreshadow contacts and conflicts in the contemporary Horn of Africa. All such regions and histories have been the subjects of past ERiC presentations and discussions.

Eurasian Religions in Contact Summer School will take place at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) of the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany from 25 July - 01 August 2017.

Accepted students will receive a Round Trip ticket from their home or university to Bochum. Additionally they will receive accommodations, all lunches and two dinners.