Craftsmen – farmers – clergymen. Threats to social-moral systems of order in religious literary discourse (15th - 17th century) (F03)

• Subject Area: Roman Catholic Theology
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 170320015

Project F03 examines the relationship between religiously influenced threat communication and social order in a diachronic comparative study using three exemplary constellations that span different epochs. We ask questions about the connections between threat communication and a loss of trust in religious and political authorities, about the relevance of threat scenarios as possible indicators of social change, about communicative strategies of mobilization using threat scenarios, and about imagined forms of re-ordering.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 923: Threatened Orders
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas Holzem, since 1/2019; Professor Dr. Klaus Ridder, since 1/2019