Research at Uppsala University

• 1. Catalogue of the Ethiopic manuscripts of the Gunda Gunde monastery /W. Witakowski 2. Studies in Ethiopian Monasticism: the intellectual legacy of the Stephanites /W. Witakowski

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

  Ansökan avser finansiellt stöd för 2 publikationer: 1. Katalogen skall omfatta beskrivning av den samling av 219 handskrifter i Gunda Gundeklostret som jag studerar inom det nuvarande projektet. Detta ...

• A cosmopolitan language: Hindustani in Surat - 300 years ago

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Our project aims to produce a documentary film on the blossoming of a cosmopolitan language in one of the most vibrant cities in pre-colonial Asia around 1700 and its codification. We will illustrate how ...

• Beyond the Garden: An Ecocritical Approach to Early Byzantine Christianity

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

  European culture bears a great deal of responsibility for the emergence of the contemporary ecological crisis. It has sometimes been claimed that the misuse of the material world in the Anthropocene has ...

• Biblia Arabica: The Arabic Bible and related texts among Jews, Christians and Muslims

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30

  The conference Biblia Arabica: The Arabic Bible and related texts among Jews, Christians and Muslims will take place in Uppsala in March 29-April 1, 2016. The aim of the conference is to foster an interest ...

• Bridget of Sweden digitally. Making St Birgitta’s revelations in Old Swedish accessible

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  St Birgitta’s revelations and other writings form the basis for much research on medieval Sweden. Her texts were translated into Latin for international use and the originals were lost almost entirely. ...

• Buddhism among Tamils in Tamilkam and Ilam

  Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31

  The field of Buddhist Studies?in Europe and the Americas?has largely ignored the traditions, activities, and cultural products of Tamil-speaking Buddhists in southern India and Sri Lanka. This conference ...

• Christianity and Judaism in the Language of Islam: The Bible in Arabic and related texts produced by Jews and Christians under Islam

  Research project from 2016-03-29 to 2016-04-01

  Subsequent to the composition of the Quran, Jews and Christians translated their Holy Scriptures into Arabic as a means of understanding and developing their own religious traditions. These texts have ...

• The "profanity" of Greek sanctuaries? Defining the temenos as a space for divine-human interaction 600 BC-200 AD

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

  Greek sanctuaries have attracted considerable interest within Classical scholarship for more than a century but mainly from the viewpoint of divine presence and its expression in the form of temples, statues ...

• Elite capture? The Separation of the Church and the State

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Projektet syftar till att studera spänningsfältet mellan kyrka och stat utifrån ett nationalekonomiskt perspektiv.Vår teoretiska utgångspunkt är att den ökade konkurrensen om medlemmarna gjort att finansiella ...

• Hindi Lexicography and the Cosmopolitan in the Encounter between Europe and India around 1700

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The focus of the project is the digital publication and study of a newly retrieved manuscript of a Hindi Dictionary from 1703, comprising about 11 000 lexical entries in Latin, with Hindi equivalents written ...

• Hinduism and Globalisation: A Return Journey

  Research project from 2011-07-01 to 2013-06-30

  India is set to become a leading political and economic power in the world, and its various ties with Sweden are increasingly important. A key to East-West cooperation lies in European knowledge of the ...

• Jesus´ Attitude Towards Purity Laws

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  In the past, New Testament scholars typically portrayed Judaism in overtly negative terms and Jesus as distant from his Jewish context. Such reconstructions were largely due to a strong Christian agenda ...

• The Miracles of the Virgin Mary: Medieval Narratives Wandering through Time and Space

  Research project from 2017-03-04 to 2017-03-07

  The aim of the workshop is to initiate the research project The Miracles of the Virgin Mary: Medieval Narratives Wandering through Time and Space. Starting point for discussions on the subject are collections ...

• Lutheran Music Culture (Interdisciplinary international conference)

  Research project from 2017-09-14 to 2017-09-16

  This is an international interdisciplinary conference concerning musical culture in the contexts of Martin Luther and its historical impact. Around 70 leading scholars in musicology, church history, theology ...

• Memories for Life: Materiality and Memory of Ancient Near Eastern Inscribed Private Objects

  Research project from 2016-11-01 to 2019-12-31

  The project proposes to produce a more complete understanding of ancient Near Eastern inscribed objects commissioned by private individuals using cuneiform writing betwen ca 2800 BCE–100 CE. The objects ...

• Religious encounters in Asia´s history of religions. Critical reflections of an established concept.

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

  Religionsmöten i Asiens religionshistoria, Uppsala Universitet, Teologiska Fakulteten, 31.7. till 4.8. 2013. - Detta är det sjunde mötet för Arbeitskreis für Asiatische Religionsgeschichte (AKAR). 14 ...

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