Suggested projects of the 2nd phase (2021/22-2025)

Showcases

Ph.D. students should pursue one of the topics (showcases) suggested by the members of the faculty as listed below. Further proposals developed by applicants for research projects that fit the framework of “Resonant Self–World Relations” in the above named disciplines are welcome.

In Graz

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Fischer (Old Testament Studies)	• The impact of power-relations on resonance: Does it matter whose texts became part of the canon? • The impact of repetition on cultural memory in Ancient Israel
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Gärtner (Classical Philology)	• Templum de marmore ponam – Poetic Sacred Places in Imperial Epic as Manifestation of Mute and Resonant Self—World Relations • Sonuere tactae. Ancient Fable Collections as Resonant Narratives
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Heil (NewTestament Studies)	• The Resonance of Eating and Drinking in Early Christianity and its Ancient Contexts • The Resonance of Praying in Early Christianity and its Ancient Contexts
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Moebius (Sociology)	• Repressing the Reality of Death and Burial Ritual in Modernity • Processes of Sacralisation in Late Modernity
Univ.-Prof. Dr Laerke Recht (Early Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology)	• The archaeology of private religion in ancient Mesopotamia • The cult of cattle in Bronze Age Cyprus: Base Ring ‘bull’ rhyta in context
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Scherrer (Archaeology)	• Privatisation of salvation: Religious communities as axes of resonance in the Roman Imperial period • Living in paradies – late antique imagery as reflections of life and afterlife
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spickermann (Ancient History)	• Local tradition and re-formation of (sacred) space: border sanctuaries as centres of resonance • Worshiping Women in the Roman Empire: Ritual and cult
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Winter (Religious Studies)	• Somatic dimensions in the ritual practice of the new religious movement Terra Sagrada. An analysis with reference to Rosa’s theory of ‘resonance’ • Sacred texts’ as resources of world-orientation and self-optimisation. A case study in the modern reception of the Indian Upanishads.

In Erfurt

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat (North American History)	• Worshipping Nature and the Body: The Personal, Political, and Spiritual Dimension of the Alternative Food Movement in the 1970s • Resonance and Rituals of Whiteness
PD Dr. Andreas Pettenkofer (Sociology)	• Resonance through Electronic Media: The Sacralisation of the Body and the #MeToo Movement • Social Order and the Destruction of Resonance: Towards a Theory of Humiliation
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Sociology)	• Rock concerts and football stadiums as ‘bowls of hysteria’ • Roadside Crosses and Lovelocks: On revitalising religious ritual practices in secular contexts
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke (Religious Studies, Roman Religion)	• Is the city wall the end of the world? Rituals thematising, neglecting or appropriating a physical boundary • Is there somebody else out there? Polemics and counter-polemics on ancient astral religion
Prof. Dr. Markus Vinzent (History of Theology, Patristics)	• Turning the driving agencies in a world of pandemics • Dramatising, radicalising, individualising. Purpose and relation of non-historicising and historicising early Christian narratives
Prof. Dr. Verena Weidner (Musicology, Didactics of Music)	• Connection through technology? Digital Musicianship between resonance and alienation • Tango in the Technosphere. How does the digital transformation affect the self–world relations in a dance community?