Prof. Dr. Karsten Lehmann will participate in a panel honoring the 20th anniversary of the Center for Religious Studies at Central European University…

The Center for Religious Studies (CRS) at CEU sees itself as a hub for the historical and comparative study of religion and religions.

To mark the…

Prof. Dr. Mira Sonntag will be visiting the KPH in April and May 2026. She was officially welcomed today by Vice Rector Mag. Dr. Thomas Plotz and Ms.…

Prof. Dr. Mira Sonntag is a professor of Asian Christianity in the Department of Christian Studies at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan).

She is…

The SIR team invites you to visit the travelling exhibition on 'Religious Diversity in Viennese schools during the interwar Period' as part of the…

The exhibition is based on a research project carried out at the Special Research Area ‘Interreligiosity’ (SIR) at the KPH Vienna / Lower Austria. As…

Prof. Dr. Karsten Lehmann gave a paper to the fifth Convention of Protestant Pastors in Bavarian school education.

The Convention of Bavarian Pastors in School Education takes place every two years. This year, it addressed the question: Religious education: an…

The SIR - Special Research Focus on 'Interreligiosity' is once again organizing a Research Lab.

The Research Lab is a forum for collegial discussion of current research projects and the collaborative analysis of empirical data. In its current…

This semester, the SIR – Special Research Area ‘Interreligiosity’ is organising – in collaboration with the 'Expert Group on the Diversity of…

The Discourse-Series is designed for the joint reading and discussion of academic texts.

The organisers ask those interested to joint the series:

• to…

Over the past two days, Prof. Dr. Simone Sinn was a guest at the Special Research Area “Interreligiosity” at the invitation of HS Prof. Dr. Karsten…

Professor Simone Sinn holds the Chair of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (the University of…

On 10 October 2025, the Rectorate of the KPH Vienna/Lower Austria decided to change the denomination of the professorship of HS Prof. Dr. Karsten…

In September 2016, the professorship of HS-Prof. Dr. Karsten Lehmann was established with the designation “Interreligiosity”. This designation made it…

On 12 December 2025, the DVRW working-group 'religion and politics' invites you to an online discussion with Prof. Dr. Helmut Zander (University of…

Professor Helmut Zander's opus magnum on cultural grammars of the relationship between religion and politics (published in 2025) is one of the most…