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Diversity of Islamic Cultures
Research on the religions of Islamic cultures draws on geographical, historical and contemporary contexts from the wider Asian region to analyse the historical development and transformations of these religions. Some projects and researchers focus on Islamic history, others on contemporary developments. Research in Marburg also analyses pluralism and diversity in the religions of Asian Islamic traditions, which move between orthodoxy and heterodoxy. It also examines the processes of formation of traditions and renewal in these cultures. Another important perspective is that of Islamic cultures in Asia as part of a diversity of Hindu, Buddhist, local, indigenous, Jewish and Christian traditions.
Questions also arise as to how Islamic culture has been transformed in these contexts, what processes of demarcation and adaptation there are and have been. We also examine the varieties of everyday Islamic religiosity and religious practice that have emerged, and the tensions between individual and institutionalised, private and public, non-conformist and established religiosity.
These are just some of the many areas of research into the diversity of Islamic cultures.
Research
Prof. Dr. Edith Franke: Religion, religiöse Diversität und Säkularität im modernen Indonesien
Cooperation with the Working Group on Asian Religious History (AKAR) of the German Association for the Study of Religion and the DFG Research Training Group „Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities“ der Universität Leipzig (Fellowship).
Dr. Doris Decker: Gender and Sexuality in the Thought of Grand Ayatollah Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh (1935–2010). On the Dynamics of Doctrinal and Juridical Opinions in Contemporary Islam. DFG research project.
Analysis of negotiation processes on gender and sexuality in the modern Islamic world, as well as the dynamics and transformations of Islamic traditions and theological interpretations in the present: Interrelation between religion and contemporary events of modernity.
Pardis Eskandaripour: The Museum’s New Perspective – The Museum Presentation of Islamic Religious Artefacts in the Context of Space & Place, Space & Time (PhD project)
Verena Maske: Islamic – hip – integrated. On the significance of religious community-building for the identity formation of young Muslim women in the Muslim Youth in Germany e.V. (MJD) (Phd project)
Dr. Franziska Singer: Muslim women in Sarajevo: an empirical study of self-positioning, narrating faith, and everyday practice (PhD project)
Dr. Magdalena Modler-El Abdaoui: On the significance of religious engagement and peers in the religious socialisation of young Christians and Muslims with a migrant background (PhD project)
Dr. Hidir Temel: Hubyâr Alevis. An Alevi religious community in Turkey (PhD project)