Current funded projects

Dr Norbert Hintersteiner, 'Translating God(s): Comparative Theology in Europe.'

This four-year research project (2010-2014), financed by a Marie Curie Grant of the FP7 European Research Framework of the European Research Council, studies recent developments and scholarship in Anglo-American comparative theology and explores its transatlantic transfer and reception in Europe, not only stimulating its own fields of intercultural theology, theology of religion, and interreligious studies, but also advancing distinct European comparative theological scholarship. Click here for more information about the project: http://www.ecumenics.ie/research/translating-gods/

Islam and Christianity in Southeast Europe:

Dr. Ina Merdjanova’s project “Islam and Christianity in Southeast Europe” was funded by the European Council’s Marie Curie fellowship programme (“Ideas”), 1 October 2010 - 30 September 2012. It explored the social, political and cultural aspects of the interaction between Muslims and Christians in Southeast Europe, focusing in particular on the post-Cold War processes of negotiation of identity differences and similarities in the context of the multiple transitions in the region. The project contributes to a critically informed understanding of the plurality of traditions and cultures in the Balkans, and the political implications thereof. The book which Dr. Merdjanova completed during her fellowship, “Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism,” is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (2013).