Key Research Priorities

The research profile of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology (PhilFak) is a product of the collaboration of nearly the entire humanities, social sciences, and disciplines focusing on religion. The faculty’s key research priorities reflect this interdisciplinary configuration.

• Work, Organization and Learning
• Education as Transformation
• Diversity and Globalization in the Ancient World
• Health over the Life Course
• Basic Concepts in transcontinental perspective
• Interdisciplinary Near East studies
• Latin America: Diversity and Transformation
• LexicoGrammar: Description – Variation – Alteration – Cognition
• Literatures – Cultures of Knowledge – Processes of Transfer
• Human Rights/Migration
• Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Knowledge – Tradition – Practices – Imagination
• Religion as Practice and Discourse
• Transcultural Research on Prognosis and Decision-Making