Confessional Minorities as a Security Problem in the Early Modern Era (B03)

• Subject Area: Early Modern History
• Term: from 2014 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 227068724

The project focuses on the conflict-laden role of religion in early modern multireligious and multi-confessional societies. It is based on the assumption that confessional minorities and denominational conflicts themselves were not a security threat but only became a security threat over the course of discursive processes under certain conditions. Starting from this assumption, the project analyzes – in a comparative perspective – the securitization of religious minorities in the context of external interventions by taking the example of the English catholics under Elizabeth I, the christians in the Ottoman Empire, and the orthodox and protestants in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 18th century.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 138: Dynamics of Security. Processes of Securitization in historical perspective
• Applicant Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg; Professor Dr. Christoph Kampmann, since 1/2019; Professor Dr. Ulrich Niggemann, until 12/2017; Professor Dr. Stefan Rohdewald; Dr. Kerstin Weiand, until 1/2019