Project Details
Projekt
Ecumenism in urban spaces. Interconfessional and religious cooperation in New York City
Applicant
Annegreth Schilling
Subject Area
Protestant Theology
Term
from 2014 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 264304059
The five months research visit at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York forms part of a wider research project which will lead me to my Habilitation. The investigation deals with the interconfessional and interreligious cooperation in urban spaces by comparing the religious realities in Frankfurt/Germany and New York City.Following preliminary studies in Frankfurt the objective of research in New York is to determine the different players, themes and spaces of ecumenical cooperation: On one hand the study seeks to envision the diversity of religious structures and themes in the city asking particularly for the situation and self-understanding of migration churches and new religious movements. On the other hand the investigation explores the motivation of interconfessional und interreligious cooperation reviewing the semantics ecumenism which is for the most part related to the history of the ecumenical movement in the 20th century but is not yet linked to the present changes within World Christianity and interreligious engagements.Thus the transnational and interconfessional oriented study contributes not only to the correlation between religion and urbanity but connects it to the theological discourse on the shape of ecumenical cooperation in the 21st century and the future of ecumenism.
DFG Programme
Research Fellowships
International Connection
USA
Participating Institution
Union Theological Seminaryin the City of New York
