Religion, Modernity, and Cultural Heritage: The Legacy and Sustainability of Moravian Christiansfeld

Christiansfeld represents a unique opportunity to study the continuous and complex entanglement of religion and modern Nordic society as it is being formed, including urban design, industrialization, musical and literary expressions, heritagization, everyday life, and forms of social and individual subjectivity.

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An interdisciplinary research network dedicated to Christiansfeld.

The network investigates new perspectives on religion and cultural heritage on the basis of empirical material from UNESCO World Heritage site Christiansfeld. It brings together researchers from different fields and institutions in order to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary, international research, and to facilitate further funding applications, in order to enable new and deeper investigations of the unexplored material.

Organization

The network brings together researchers from different fields and a broad range of institutions. The four core members of the network are:

Tine Reeh (PI), Associate Professor, dr.theol.
University of Copenhagen
trr@teol.ku.dk

Tine Damsholt, Professor with special responsibilities, PhD
University of Copenhagen
tinedam@hum.ku.dk

Marie Riegels Melchior, Associate Professor, PhD
University of Copenhagen
jcd470@ku.dk

Christina Petterson, Gerda Henkel Research Fellow, PhD, Mtheol
Australian National University
christina.petterson@gmail.com

The material from Christiansfeld

The material from Christiansfeld is of a very high standard, well preserved, and includes, for example, archival documents, printed texts, architecture, paintings, music, and designs from the past to the present day, along with potential ethnographies and investigations of practices. It is multi-faceted and well defined, as it stems from one, single place.

The material also invites multidisciplinary inquiries, as it can be studied within different disciplines, for example architecture, church history, cultural studies, design studies, ethnology, gender studies, history, law, literary studies, minority studies, music, pedagogy, and political history. Therefore, it can create synergy and cross-disciplinary discussion, with Christiansfeld working as a paradigm for future research on the complexity of religious heritage.

Faculty of Theology

Religion, Modernity, and Cultural Heritage: The Legacy and Sustainability of Moravian Christiansfeld

Organization

The material from Christiansfeld