„Arming the natives and inspiring them to resist German influence“. Functions of religion in colonial rule and indigenous resistance in German and British colonialism in German East Africa and Tanganyika (1885–1961)

• Applicant: Dr. Daniel Müller
• Subject Area: Roman Catholic Theology
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 549768311

The main objective of the project proposal is to successfully enter the postdoctoral research phase by laying the foundations for a habilitation project as a starting point for an academic career. In order to achieve this goal, the project proposal divides this main goal into five measurable and achievable sub-goals, the scope of which is based on my previous work performance over a two-year period: 1. The successful transfer from the University of Bonn to a completely new academic environment at the Ruhr University Bochum with Prof. Dr. Florian Bock and the integration into research, teaching and networks of the chair; 2. completing the design of a new research topic with a detailed chapter-by-chapter structure of the habilitation thesis and exploring and analyzing its archival source material; 4. writing the first of three parts of the habilitation; and 5. publishing three essays that extend my research profile across the breadth of the field of medieval and contemporary church history.

• DFG Programme: WBP Position