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Staff

Starting next week there will be some changes in our coordination team. Johannes Duschka will be on parental leave for the next three months. Foteine König will no longer be a student assistant, but will officially join our coordination team starting 1 August 2019.

New Working Papers

Our Working Papers Series is growing fast, we happily announce the four latest publications: 

#10 Neguin Yavari: Shifting Modes of Piety in Early Modern Iran and the Persephone Zone

#11 Matthew King: ‘Unbiased Scholars’ and ‘Superfcial Intellectuals’: Was there a Public Culture between Europe and Inner Asia in the Long 19th Century?

#12 Dagmar Schwerk: Drawing Lines in a Mandala. A Sketch of Boundaries Between Religion and Politics in Bhutan

#13 Muchamad Ali Safa'at: Indonesian Secularities. On the Influence of the State-Islam Relationship on Legal and Political Developments

New Companion Entries

We are also happy to announce six new entries to our Companion to the Study of Secularity:

Silke Gülker: Science and Religion in the Modern West

Florian Zemmin: Secularism, Secularity and Islamic Reformism

Muchamad Ali Safa’at: Islam and the State in Indonesia from a Legal Perspective

Neguin Yavari: Secularity in the Premodern Islamic World

Bernadette Bigalke: Religion and Medicine in Mazdaznan

Mohammad Magout: Secularity in the Syro-Lebanese Press in the 19th Century