CRC 496 C6 - Profane and Sacred: Churchyards as Sites and Spheres of Symbolic Communication in the Rural Society of Westphalia (1400-1900)
Basic data for this project
Description
The project investigates the coexistence and the opposition of religious and secular spatial perceptions and uses on catholic and protestant churchyards in Westphalia (mainly the bishopric of Münster) and Central Germany (mainly the principality of Anhalt) between 1500 and 1800. It expects to come to a better, more concrete understanding of the ways that sacral areas were set up locally. It concentrates on the performative effect of rituals and symbols aiming at sanctity in the core of the rural society of Old Europe. The project expects to obtain insights into the ways sacral areas were set up ‘in situ' by the different confessions. Central thereby is the performative effect that rituals and symbols aiming at sainthood had in a centrepiece of the rural society of old Europe.
- DFG - Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)
Project management at the University of Münster
| Freitag, Werner |
Applicants from the University of Münster
| Freitag, Werner |
Research associates from the University of Münster
| Brademann, Jan |
Related main project
Duration: 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2011 | 3rd Funding period Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster |
Publications of the University of Münster resulting from the project
Brademann Jan (2013) Münster: (kein Verlag angegeben). Book (monograph) | Published | |
Spannhoff Christof (2014) Münster: (kein Verlag angegeben). Book (monograph) | Published | |
Brademann Jan (2014) In: Brademann Jan, Thies Kristina (eds.), Liturgisches Handeln als soziale Praxis. Kirchliche Rituale in der Frühen Neuzeit, 11-58. Münster: Rhema Verlag. Research article (book contribution) | Published | |
Brademann Jan, Thies Kristina (eds.) (2014) Münster: Rhema Verlag. Book (edited collection) | Published |
Doctorates resulting from the project
| Leben ohne die Toten. Analyse der Konflikte um die Verlegung der ländlichen Begräbnisplätze im Kreis Tecklenburg Candidate: Spannhoff, Christof | Supervisors: Freitag, Werner; Großbölting, Thomas Period of time: 01/01/2009 - 03/06/2013 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Mit den Toten und für die Toten. Kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Konfessionalisierung der Sepulkralkultur in ländlichen Kirchspielen des Münsterlandes… Candidate: Brademann, Jan | Supervisors: Freitag, Werner Period of time: 01/04/2006 - 20/12/2010 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster |