University of Göttingen - Department of Theology
'Religions and Healing' in the Context of COVID-19

A collaborative research group examining the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on humanity through religious perspectives. The group's researchers seek to question, describe, explore, and propose answers from religious and hermeneutical viewpoints to various challenges that humanity faces in the wake of the pandemic. The first meeting on this topic was held on February 21-23, 2022, at Bar-Ilan University.

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RESILIENCE

RESILIENCE is a project designed to establish a research network and infrastructure comprised of outstanding researchers across multiple European countries, aimed at providing a technological and communicative platform that enables interactions, collaborations, knowledge exchange, and novel approaches. The project's stated objective is to leverage the advancement of religious studies within the European academic community. As part of this project, the establishment of the Religious Studies Forum website has been supported.

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Israeli-Japanese Comparative Research on "Medieval Thinkers in Israel and Japan: Maimonides and Zen Master Dōgen"

Submitted by Professor Mualem for a short-term research grant to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), in collaboration with Professor Masahiro Shida from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo.