The purpose of the POLY research group Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (circa 700–1800 CE), housed at Goethe University Frankfurt and funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), is twofold. First, we aim to facilitate and support comparative interdisciplinary research into preindustrial or premodern Christianities around the globe. Second, we will investigate the ways in which dynamic plurality works as a driving force of change across and within communities of belief. Our primary goal is to decentralise religious history before 1800. We will also historicize and question the unitary and universalist self-images nurtured by institutional churches, as well as the corresponding models of religious culture or transformation found in modern scholarship. This ambitious intellectual agenda is supported by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars. Together, we hope to more deeply understand the formation of religious communities by local and global forces, as well as the myriad connections among them.
Interview mit Birgit Emich zum gemeinsamen Forschen in der aktuellen GoetheSpektrum Ausgabe
In dem Artikel "Helfen statt zuschauen" der aktuellen GoetheSpektrum Ausgabe wurden Interviews mit Mitarbeitenden der Goethe-Universität veröffentlicht, die sich in ihrem Berufsfeld für Menschen aus der Ukraine engagieren, ein Zeichen setzen und aktiv helfen. Auch Birgit Emich, die Sprecherin der KFG-POLY spricht über die spannende Entwicklung der Zusammenarbeit mit fünf ukrainischen Wissenschenschaftler*innen in der KFG POLY.
Bereits wenige Tage nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine hat der Forschungsverbund „POLY“ Stipendien für ukrainische Historiker*innen ausgeschrieben. Birgit Emich, Leiterin von „POLY“ und Co-Sprecherin der Exzellenz-Initiative „Dynamiken des Religiösen“ erklärt im Gespräch mit Bremen-2-Moderator Nikolas Golsch die Motivation hinter dem Programm, verweist auf seine wissenschaftlichen Chancen für den Forschungsverbund und betont, wie rasch die Stipendien vergeben waren.
POLY offers five scholarships to Ukrainian historians who are forced to leave their
country. Scholarships consist of 3000 € per month each and are initially limited to four
months. They address post-doctoral scholars in medieval and early modern history with a
focus on religious plurality.
There is no deadline and no formal application.
POLY пропонує п'ять стипендій для українськиї істориків та історикинь, які
вимушені покинути свою країну. Сума стипендії становить 3.000 євро щомісячно,
тривалістю щонайменше чотири місяці. До подачі заявок запрошуються науковці та
науковиці рівня «постдок» за фахом середньовічної та\або ранньомодерної історії
релігії та мультирелігійності.
Заявку на стипендію можна подавати у будь який час.
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Space and Religion I
Mihai Grigore: "Religion and Territory. Religious Policy in State Building in the Danubian Principalities from the 14th to 16th Centuries"
Tuesday, November 8 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and online via Zoom
Molly Green: "The Monastic Landscape of the Pindus Mountains"
Tuesday, November 22 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Ivan Almes: "Ordering the 'Confessional Space': The Kyvian Uniate Metropolitanate and the Resolutions of the Council of Zamość 1720"
Tuesday, December 6 2022, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Nadine Amsler: "Hidden Spaces: Women and Domestic Religion in Chinese Christianity"
Tuesday, January 10 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Bernhard Heyberger: "Eastern Christianity: A Central Periphery"
Tuesday, January 24 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Renate Dürr: "Ambiguity and Ambilvalence in the 'Neue Welt-Bott': The Reports on Eastern Christianities in a Jesuit Cultural Encyclopedia"
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Fellow Lectures
Klaus-Peter Todt: "Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1669-1707) and his history of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem"
Tuesday, July 5 2022, 14:00-16:00, Seminarhaus 1.106, Campus Westend
Simon Ditchfield: "Rome-calling? Rewriting th Catholic Reformation for the 21th century"
Wednesday, July 13 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Samuel Weber: "Burning Hearts: The Second Media Revolution and the Making of the Cult of the Sacred Heart, c. 1670-1800"
Wednesday, July 20 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Space and Religion I
Mihai Grigore: "Religion and Territory. Religious Policy in State Building in the Danubian Principalities from the 14th to 16th Centuries"
Tuesday, November 8 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and online via Zoom
Molly Green: "The Monastic Landscape of the Pindus Mountains"
Tuesday, November 22 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Ivan Almes: "Ordering the 'Confessional Space': The Kyvian Uniate Metropolitanate and the Resolutions of the Council of Zamość 1720"
Tuesday, December 6 2022, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Nadine Amsler: "Hidden Spaces: Women and Domestic Religion in Chinese Christianity"
Tuesday, January 10 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Bernhard Heyberger: "Eastern Christianity: A Central Periphery"
Tuesday, January 24 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Renate Dürr: "Ambiguity and Ambilvalence in the 'Neue Welt-Bott': The Reports on Eastern Christianities in a Jesuit Cultural Encyclopedia"
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Fellow Lectures
Klaus-Peter Todt: "Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1669-1707) and his history of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem"
Tuesday, July 5 2022, 14:00-16:00, Seminarhaus 1.106, Campus Westend
Simon Ditchfield: "Rome-calling? Rewriting th Catholic Reformation for the 21th century"
Wednesday, July 13 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Samuel Weber: "Burning Hearts: The Second Media Revolution and the Making of the Cult of the Sacred Heart, c. 1670-1800"
Wednesday, July 20 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
The purpose of the POLY research group Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (circa 700–1800 CE), housed at Goethe University Frankfurt and funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), is twofold. First, we aim to facilitate and support comparative interdisciplinary research into preindustrial or premodern Christianities around the globe. Second, we will investigate the ways in which dynamic plurality works as a driving force of change across and within communities of belief. Our primary goal is to decentralise religious history before 1800. We will also historicize and question the unitary and universalist self-images nurtured by institutional churches, as well as the corresponding models of religious culture or transformation found in modern scholarship. This ambitious intellectual agenda is supported by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars. Together, we hope to more deeply understand the formation of religious communities by local and global forces, as well as the myriad connections among them.
Interview mit Birgit Emich zum gemeinsamen Forschen in der aktuellen GoetheSpektrum Ausgabe
In dem Artikel "Helfen statt zuschauen" der aktuellen GoetheSpektrum Ausgabe wurden Interviews mit Mitarbeitenden der Goethe-Universität veröffentlicht, die sich in ihrem Berufsfeld für Menschen aus der Ukraine engagieren, ein Zeichen setzen und aktiv helfen. Auch Birgit Emich, die Sprecherin der KFG-POLY spricht über die spannende Entwicklung der Zusammenarbeit mit fünf ukrainischen Wissenschenschaftler*innen in der KFG POLY.
Bereits wenige Tage nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine hat der Forschungsverbund „POLY“ Stipendien für ukrainische Historiker*innen ausgeschrieben. Birgit Emich, Leiterin von „POLY“ und Co-Sprecherin der Exzellenz-Initiative „Dynamiken des Religiösen“ erklärt im Gespräch mit Bremen-2-Moderator Nikolas Golsch die Motivation hinter dem Programm, verweist auf seine wissenschaftlichen Chancen für den Forschungsverbund und betont, wie rasch die Stipendien vergeben waren.
POLY offers five scholarships to Ukrainian historians who are forced to leave their
country. Scholarships consist of 3000 € per month each and are initially limited to four
months. They address post-doctoral scholars in medieval and early modern history with a
focus on religious plurality.
There is no deadline and no formal application.
POLY пропонує п'ять стипендій для українськиї істориків та історикинь, які
вимушені покинути свою країну. Сума стипендії становить 3.000 євро щомісячно,
тривалістю щонайменше чотири місяці. До подачі заявок запрошуються науковці та
науковиці рівня «постдок» за фахом середньовічної та\або ранньомодерної історії
релігії та мультирелігійності.
Заявку на стипендію можна подавати у будь який час.
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Space and Religion I
Mihai Grigore: "Religion and Territory. Religious Policy in State Building in the Danubian Principalities from the 14th to 16th Centuries"
Tuesday, November 8 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and online via Zoom
Molly Green: "The Monastic Landscape of the Pindus Mountains"
Tuesday, November 22 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Ivan Almes: "Ordering the 'Confessional Space': The Kyvian Uniate Metropolitanate and the Resolutions of the Council of Zamość 1720"
Tuesday, December 6 2022, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Nadine Amsler: "Hidden Spaces: Women and Domestic Religion in Chinese Christianity"
Tuesday, January 10 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Bernhard Heyberger: "Eastern Christianity: A Central Periphery"
Tuesday, January 24 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Renate Dürr: "Ambiguity and Ambilvalence in the 'Neue Welt-Bott': The Reports on Eastern Christianities in a Jesuit Cultural Encyclopedia"
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Fellow Lectures
Klaus-Peter Todt: "Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1669-1707) and his history of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem"
Tuesday, July 5 2022, 14:00-16:00, Seminarhaus 1.106, Campus Westend
Simon Ditchfield: "Rome-calling? Rewriting th Catholic Reformation for the 21th century"
Wednesday, July 13 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Samuel Weber: "Burning Hearts: The Second Media Revolution and the Making of the Cult of the Sacred Heart, c. 1670-1800"
Wednesday, July 20 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Space and Religion I
Mihai Grigore: "Religion and Territory. Religious Policy in State Building in the Danubian Principalities from the 14th to 16th Centuries"
Tuesday, November 8 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and online via Zoom
Molly Green: "The Monastic Landscape of the Pindus Mountains"
Tuesday, November 22 2022, 18:10-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Ivan Almes: "Ordering the 'Confessional Space': The Kyvian Uniate Metropolitanate and the Resolutions of the Council of Zamość 1720"
Tuesday, December 6 2022, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Nadine Amsler: "Hidden Spaces: Women and Domestic Religion in Chinese Christianity"
Tuesday, January 10 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Bernhard Heyberger: "Eastern Christianity: A Central Periphery"
Tuesday, January 24 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Renate Dürr: "Ambiguity and Ambilvalence in the 'Neue Welt-Bott': The Reports on Eastern Christianities in a Jesuit Cultural Encyclopedia"
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 18:15-19:45, Seminarhaus 4.105, Campus Westend and via Zoom
Frankfurt POLY Lectures: Fellow Lectures
Klaus-Peter Todt: "Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1669-1707) and his history of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem"
Tuesday, July 5 2022, 14:00-16:00, Seminarhaus 1.106, Campus Westend
Simon Ditchfield: "Rome-calling? Rewriting th Catholic Reformation for the 21th century"
Wednesday, July 13 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Samuel Weber: "Burning Hearts: The Second Media Revolution and the Making of the Cult of the Sacred Heart, c. 1670-1800"
Wednesday, July 20 2022, 18:00-20:00, Seminarhaus 0.106, Campus Westend
Prof. Dr. Birgit Emich
Historisches Seminar
Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Goethe-Universität
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: +49-(0) 69/798-32594
E-Mail: emich[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de
Administration Office
Claudia Pätzold
Historisches Seminar
Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
IG Farbenhaus 3.413
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: +49-(0) 69/798-32595
E-Mail: c.paetzold[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de