Multiple Sacralities : Rethinking Sacralizations in European History

How do we account for the multiplicity of sacred forms in the pluralist societies of today's Europe? How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we make sense of the colonized sacred that has come to haunt museums holding ethnographic collections of colonial origin across Europe? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes, including warfare and the execution of excessive violence? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century that scholars wonder about the emergence of a new kind of "dark green religion"? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective.

PD Dr. Gregor Feindt ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Georg Forster Forum der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und Privatdozent an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Von 2014 bis 2025 war er Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.

Dr. Bernhard Gißibl ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.

Andrea Hofmann, Dr. theol., is a member of the academic staff at the chair of Early Modern and Modern History of Christianity, Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Recently, she holds a DFG-fellowship and carries on research at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Strasbourg. Recent publications: Predigt im Ersten Weltkrieg. La predication durant la "Grande Guerre" (co-ed., Göttingen 2017); Überlegungen zur Ausbildung einer "Zwei-Reiche-Lehre" in wissenschaftlichen Schriften und Predigten des Ersten Weltkriegs (in: Jürgen Kampmann / Hans Otte (Hg.), Angewandtes Luthertum? Die Zwei-Reiche-Lehre als theologische Konstruktion in politischen Kontexten des 20. Jahrhunderts, Gütersloh 2017, 53-65).