List of all externally funded projects
Here you will find an overview of the externally funded projects in which our faculty has been involved.
⚠ Please note that the following titles were translated with AI. Please switch to to German Version of this site to see the original titles.
| 2025–2028 | From Epistemic Injustice to Epistemic Awareness. Process-based methodological research on the abuse of adult women in the Catholic Church (Magdalena Hürten and Thomas Schmidt supervised by Ute Leimgruber) |
| 2024–2027 | The Social Locations of the Acts of Titus: How a Minor ‘Apostle’ Influenced the Social Identity of a Big Island (Michael Scott Robertson supervised by Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2024–2027 | The New Jerusalem of the Book of Revelation in the Age of Imperial Christianity (c. 313–c. 600) (Nathan Betz, supervised by Andreas Merkt) |
| 2023–2026 | A Social-Historical Study of Truth-Telling in the Acts of Peter and the Acts of Thomas (DFG-funded project) (Thomas Tops, supervised by Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2022–2028 | Beyond the Canon: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Late Antique Christianity (DFG Research College 2770) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Tobias Nicklas, Harald Buchinger, Andreas Merkt) |
| 2022–2025 | Metropolitanism in the Pre-Modern Era (DFG Research Training Group 2337) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Harald Buchinger and Andreas Merkt) |
| 2023–2025 | Bridging Stational Liturgy and Monumental Mosaic Decorations of Late Antique Rome (Humboldt) (Martin Lešák under Harald Buchinger) |
| 2023–2024 | The Gospel and Liturgy in the Byzantine Church: The Liturgical Year in Greek Tetraevangelia (9th–15th centuries) (Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation) (Marie-Ève Geiger under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2022–2025 | Hymns on the Transfiguration of Christ in the Greek East: Heortology, Thematic Development, and Theological Contributions (DFG grant) (Gregory Tucker under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2022–2024 | Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Poland. A Study in Medieval State-Formation, Peace-Building, and Strategies of Identification (until c. 1300) (Humboldt) (Paweł Figurski under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2022–2024 | A Levitical Renaissance in Byzantium: Clergy, Women, Purity, and Sacred Space in Late Medieval Christian Liturgy (Humboldt) (Nina Glibetić under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2022 | The Triodion Between Jerusalem and Constantinople: Shifting Texts – Shifting Meanings. Edition, Historical Analysis and Comparative Interpretation of the Oldest Manuscript Witness (Humboldt) (Alexandra Nikiforova under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2022 | Popular Philosophy and Early Christianity (Humboldt) (Johan Thom under the supervision of Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2022 | Folklore and Rabbinic Literature: Folktales and Fables in Midrash (Humboldt) (Lorena Miralles Maciá, supervised by Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2021–2024 | Violence against adult women in the Catholic Church (Barbara Haslbeck, supervised by Ute Leimgruber) |
| 2021–2024 | Development of digital modules to support students’ self-directed learning phases, virtually and interactively (SelVi@UR) (Sr. Philippa Haase supervised by Ute Leimgruber) |
| 2021–2024 | Survey and analysis of findings on violence against adult women in the Catholic Church (Fidel Götz Foundation) (Barbara Haslbeck, supervised by Ute Leimgruber) |
| 2021–2024 | On the origins of baptismal anointing (DFG) (Predrag Bukovec under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2021–2024 | A History of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy: The Synaxis of the Word (DFG) (Stefano Parenti, supervised by Harald Buchinger) |
| 2021–2023 | Appropriating the Past: Art, Ritual, and Identity in Later Byzantium (Humboldt) (Evan Freeman under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2021–2023 | The Acts of Thekla in the Syriac Christian Traditions (Humboldt) (Jacob Aaron Lollar under the supervision of Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2020–2023 | The Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand as a Case Study in the Processes of Liturgical Change in the 9th Century (DFG) (Arthur Westwell under Harald Buchinger) |
| 2019–2022 | Beyond the Canon: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Late Antique Christianity (DFG Research College 2770) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Tobias Nicklas, Harald Buchinger, Andreas Merkt) |
| 2019 | The Rise of Music Writing in Italy’s saeculum obscurum ( Gerda Henkel Foundation and DAAD) (Giovanni Varelli under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2018–2021 | Papyri and the Synoptic Miracle Narratives (DFG) (Mara Rescio under Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2018–2021 | A Regional History of the Byzantine Rite (DFG) (Stefano Parenti under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2018–2019 | The Ritual of an Empire: Life-Cycle Liturgies at Constantinople (Humboldt) (Gabriel Radle under the supervision of Harald Buchinger) |
| 2018–2019 | The Ritual Celebration of Scripture from Late Antiquity to Medieval Egypt (Humboldt) (Ramez Mikhail supervised by Harald Buchinger) |
| 2017–2026 | Digitisation of Johann Michael Sailer’s printed works using the Transkribus programme (Volker Nechleba Foundation) (Peter Scheuchenpflug) |
| 2017–2021 | Metropolitanism in the Pre-modern Era (DFG Research Training Group 2337) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Harald Buchinger and Andreas Merkt) |
| 2017–2018 | Commentary on the Unknown Gospel on Papyrus Egerton 2 (Humboldt) (Lorne Zelyck under Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2016–2019 | Johann Michael Sailer (1751–1832) and his interdenominational ‘circles’. A re-examination of the theology-generating potential of these ‘epicentres’ of practical theological theory-formation and practice-shaping (DFG) (Gabriele Zieroff under Peter Scheuchenpflug) |
| 2015–2018 | Graduale Synopticum: Online database of the core repertoire of Gregorian chant for Mass (Thyssen Foundation) (Harald Buchinger) |
| 2015–2018 | Descriptions of Christian Distinctiveness in Early Apostle Narratives (DFG) (Julia Snyder under the supervision of Tobais Nicklas) |
| 2015–2018 | Analytic Theology and the Nature of God (Templeton) (Thomas Schärtl-Trendel) |
| 2015–2018 | The Early History of the Reception of the Epistle of James (DFG) (Bemmerl, supervised by Tobais Nicklas) |
| 2014–2018 | Festive homilies attributed to Amphilochios of Iconium (DFG) (Martin Kaiser under Harald Buchinger) |
| 2014–2016 | Intertextuality and the Arts of Resistance: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Sixth Book of Ezra (DFG) (Luigi Walt under the supervision of Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2013–2016 | The Afterlife in the Acts of Philip (DFG) (Petrus Maritz under Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2013–2014 | The Reception of Apocryphal Traditions as a Bridge between Islamic and Christian Cultures in the First Millennium (Humboldt) (Cornelia Horn under the supervision of Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2013 | The Gospel of Mary (DFG) (Judith Hartenstein under Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2012–2013 | Holy Week and Easter in the High Medieval West: A liturgical investigation with special reference to music, drama, and the arts (Yale Institute of Sacred Music) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Harald Buchinger) |
| 2012–2013 | Pneuma and the Body: A Social Scientific Test Case in the Corpus Paulinum (Humboldt) (Jeremy Barrier under the supervision of Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2012–2016 | Corpses – Skeletons – Relics. The Dead Body in Late Antique Greek Christian Popular Literature (DFG) (Andreas Merkt) |
| 2011–2013 | Gregorian Office Antiphons (online database) (Fritz Thyssen Foundation) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Harald Buchinger) |
| 2011–2013 | Studies on Baruch 4–5 (DFG) (Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2011–2012 | Hermeneutics of Commentary: A Study of the Biblical Book of Exodus (DFG) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Christoph Dohmen) |
| 2011–2012 | Funeral culture in the Diaspora – Interactions between late antique Christianity and its environment (Erfurt Theological Research College) (Andreas Merkt) |
| 2010–2011 | Paradoxographic Literature and the Depiction of Miracle Narratives in Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (Humboldt) (Janet Spittler under the supervision of Tobias Nicklas) |
| 2010–2011 | The Question of the Present as a Question of God – A Study in the Theology of Time (Erfurt Theological Research College) (Erwin Dirscherl) |
| 2007–2012 | Matthew 19–22 in patristic literature (DFG) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Andreas Merkt) |
| 2006–2014 | Burial Law (2nd–8th centuries) (DFG) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Andreas Merkt) |
| 2007–2009 | Images as sources of conceptions of the afterlife in the funerary context (3rd–6th centuries) (DFG) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Andreas Merkt) |
| 2004–2006 | Conceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Christian Epitaphs (3rd–6th centuries) (DFG) [URL (external link, opens in a new window)] (Andreas Merkt) |