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Submissions are invited for an edited volume provisionally entitled “Comparison, transfer, and Histoire Croisée. Comparative analysis and cultural transfer within historical studies with a particular reference to the relationship between religion and politics (1500-2000).” The planned book is a collaborative project initiated by a working group dedicated to these themes located within the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster, Germany. The first section of the book will outline the current methodological debates within historical theory over the fundamental principles of comparative analysis and cultural transfer. To this end, the book will also include empirical examples, which will demonstrate the possibilities, but also limitations, of such approaches. The second section of the book will demonstrate through empirical examples the ways in which a complex interdependency between state-sanctioned and/or political institutions and religion has developed in the modern era. In combination, these two sections will allow the book to be read as both a compendium of different methodological and theoretical approaches as well as a collection of thematically aligned examples from the broad research field of religion and politics that encompass various historical periods.
Submissions are sought that either make use of a method of comparative analysis or an approach from the field of cultural transfer. We are expressly seeking submissions which combine both such a method and approach. Submissions should focus upon the complex interdependency between state-sanctioned and/or political institutions and religion, and should, as far as possible, engage with the following points:
1.A broad connection to European history. Although extra-European themes are not the intended focus of the book they can be incorporated, for example, as reference points for a comparative analysis or a study of cultural transfer.
2.A relationship to the Christian or Jewish religions, although studies that examine other religious communities will also be welcome.
3.An explicit basis within one or more approaches of comparison or transfers as well the inclusion of at least two objects of study.
4.An historical period broadly centered within the early modern, nineteenth, or twentieth centuries.
The deadline for the submission of articles will be 30 November 2010. An editorial workshop is planned for early 2011, to which contributors will be invited. This workshop will provide a forum for academic ideas relating to the contributions to be exchanged, and it is expected that the discussions arising form this workshop will determine the final form. Contributors may be required to adjust their papers according to the final concept of the edited volume and the results of the workshop. Contributions are not to exceed 7,000 words, including footnotes.
Interested parties should send a PDF of their 500 word proposal to both editors by email, together with a short academic CV and list of publications no later than 15 January, 2010.
Editors:
Dr Thies Schulze, tschulze@uni-muenster.de
Dr Christian Müller, cmuel_02@uni-muenster.de
Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modern and Modern Period
University of Muenster
Johannisstrasse 1-4
D-48143 Muenster
Germany
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