Research Projects

Ongoing Projects

• Security and heritage.
  Alignments and collusions of two global leitmotifs

  
  
  Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken, Dr. Vera Lazzaretti

• Temple Networks in Early Modern South India:
  Narratives, Rituals, and Material Culture

  
  
  Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken, Dr. Jonas Buchholz

• Changing Patterns of Women's Ritual Agency in Religious Traditions of South Asian Origin

  
  
  Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken

• Perspectives on Festivity

  
  
  Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken

• Navarātri, Navarātra and Durgāpūjā in South Asia and beyond

• Religions- und rechtsgeschichtliche Quellen des vormodernen Nepal

  
  
  Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels

Completed Projects

1. Die nepalische Wright-Chronicle - Editio princeps, Neuübersetzung und topographischer Atlas
(Dr. Manik Bajracharya)
2. Ritualdynamik
   
3. Initiation, priestly ordination, temple festivals - ritual traditions in south Indian temple city of Kancipuram
   Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken
4. Rites of Passage of the Vaikhânasas: Construction of Religious Identity in South India (Habilitation; concluded in 2002)
   Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken
5. Ritual failure and mistake(s) in ritual (in the context of SFB 619 "dynamics of rituals")
   Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken
6. Interaktive Benares-Karte Kāśīdarpaṇa (1876)
   
7. Orissa-Projekt
   
8. Vedic studies: Auxiliary studies (Dr. Parameswara Aithal)
9. Sanskrit manuscripts in European libraries (Dr. Parameswara Aithal)
10. Die Mahima-Dharma-Bewegung in Text und Kontext (Dr. Johannes Beltz)
11. Mittelalterlicher südindischer Vishnuismus, Theologie und Rituale (Prof. Dr. Srilata Raman)
12. Sozio-reformische Bewegungen in Südindien im 19. Jahrhundert: Der Sozialreformer Ramalinga Swamigal (Prof. Dr. Srilata Raman)
13. Initiation und Hochzeit bei den hochkastigen Newar-Buddhisten von Lalitpur, Nepal (Initiation and Marriage among the High-Caste Newars of Lalitpur, Nepal) --- Dr. Christoph Emmrich
14. Historiographische Studien zur Unfallsgeschichte des Roten Matsyendranātha von Buṃgamatī --- Dr. Christoph Emmrich
15. Traditionelle Gelehrsamkeit und religiöse Identität bei den Digambara Jainas in Tamil Nadu (Traditional scholarship and religious identity among the Digambara Jains of Tamil Nadu --- Dr. Christoph Emmrich