The workshop “Religious Change in Central- and South-East Anatolia” is organized by DAI Istanbul, Orient Institut Istanbul, Forschungsstelle Asia Minor and the Cluster of Excellence "Religion & Politics" at Münster University, as well as by the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Central- and South-East Anatolia are among the priority regions which exemplify the enormous diversity of religious practices in Anatolia in the longue durée from c. 10.000 BCE to the present and their connections to neighbouring civilizations.
The workshop aims to provide a synopsis of the evolution of religion within these two regions as well as their most prominent sacred sites. Furthermore, key questions to the topics of 'Environment and Religion',
'Sovereignty and Religion', and 'Connections and Interactions' are also to be dealt with in order to offer perspectives for future research on the religious history of Anatolia and for possible ways of dealing with contemporary social and religious conflicts.
Compulsory registration to ceres-coordination-office@rub.de by 22nd of May 2016.
The workshop is free of charge.