Religious collection

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Religious collection
Marburg Portal Landgraf-Philipp-Straße 4.JPG

Entrance to the religious studies collection
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place Marburg , Germany
Art
architect Ebert Baldewein (new law firm)
opening 1927
Number of visitors (annually) 350
operator
management
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ISIL DE-MUS-091714

The religious studies collection is a central facility of the Philipps University of Marburg . It is one of the few museums that shows the diversity of the world's religions on the basis of objects and pictorial material. The current head of the religious studies collection is Edith Franke. The collection as well as the religious studies library are open to the public.

history

Former landgrave chancellery that has housed the religious studies collection since 1981

The collection was founded in 1927, on the four hundredth anniversary of the Philipps University of Marburg, by the theologian and religious philosopher Rudolf Otto ; In 1929 it was officially opened. On the one hand, what was common to him, but also on the other hand, the diversity of religions was important. “This collection is intended to serve the study of religion in its manifold historical phenomena.” Through trips and a network of sponsors, he laid the foundation of the collection. After Rudolf Otto, Heinrich Frick , Friedrich Heiler , Ernst Dammann , Käthe Neumann, Martin Kraatz (director 1968–1998) and Peter Bräunlein (director 2000–2005) were in charge of the collection. Edith Franke has headed the collection since 2006.

The collection changed its location in Marburg several times in the course of its history. When it was founded, it was housed in the "Jubilee Building " (today Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus ). In 1947 it moved to the Landgrave's Palace, where it was housed until 1981. On September 25, 1982, the religious studies collection was reopened in the rooms of the “New Chancellery” (Landgraf-Philipp-Straße 4). In 1998 the Department of Religious Studies moved from Liebigstrasse to the “New Chancellery”.

As a university institute, the Religious History Collection had its own specialist library with more than 30,000 volumes. The extensive library of the collection was merged in 1999 with the religious studies holdings of the university library and the library of the religious studies department to form a sub-library of the university library. The collection is a central facility of the Philipps University of Marburg. Since 2006, the management and supervision of the collection has been linked to the professorship for religious studies at the Philipps University of Marburg. This should guarantee the connection in teaching and research.

Permanent exhibition

The religious history collection in Marburg comprises around 10,000 objects. It illustrates the diversity of religions on three floors in eleven rooms with the help of around 1,500 ritual objects, pictures, icons , house altars, models and replicas of concrete religious practice then and now. The focus of the religious studies collection is on the religions of South and East Asia ( Hinduism , Buddhism , Daoism , Confucianism , Shinto and Tenrikyo ); especially Buddhism in its various regional forms is shown (India, Taiwan, China, Japan and Tibet). In addition, religions from ancient America, ancient Egypt , Central and Northern Europe, Africa and the monotheistic religions ( Judaism , Christianity , Islam ) are presented.

Special exhibitions

The religious studies collection offers special exhibitions on various topics. Here is a selection from the last few years:

  • Sense spaces. Insights into lived religiosity in Germany (2015-2018)
  • From dervish hat to Mecca Cola. Diversity of Islamic Faith Practice (opening May 2013)
  • Ethiopia celebrates: pictures from field research by Konstanze Runge (December 14, 2011 to December 11, 2012)
  • Visual pilgrimage: hanging scrolls in everyday religious practice in Japan (November 24, 2009 to June 28, 2011)
  • Tibet in Marburg (November 14, 2007 to August 10, 2009)
  • Faces of Islam. Encounters with Muslim women (March 31, 2008 to May 18, 2008)
  • God posters. An exhibition of popular prints from different religions (2004-2005)
  • Islam in Java . From the Nine Wali to the Indonesian Children of Today (2004)
  • Ethno-graphic experiments. An exhibition in two parts (May 2003– April 2004)
  • Religion and Travel Culture in Japan / Religion and Travel Culture in Japan (2002)
  • Guadalupenismo and civil religion in Mexico. A small poster exhibition (2001)
  • Japanese Summer Festival / summer festivals in Japan (1999)
  • A Buddhist "Saint" in Japan, Jizo Bosatsu : Photographs and Objects (September 6, 1994 to October 23, 1994)
  • Religious Painting from Taiwan (October 12, 1980 to November 23, 1980)
  • Yokigurashi: Exhibition on Tenrikyō , a religion in Japan (May 12, 1975 to June 15, 1975)

Publications

  • Edith Franke: Objects tell religious stories. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, Vol. 9 Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8185-0533-2 :
  • Konstanze Runge, Andrey Trofimov:  “There is no God!” Church and religion in Soviet posters. Collection of the State Museum of Religious History Saint Petersburg. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, vol. 7. Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-051548-4 .
  • Edith Franke, Konstanze Runge: From dervish hat to Mecca cola. Diversity of Islamic Belief Practice. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, vol. 6. Diagonal-Verlag: Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939346-20-3 .
  • Michael Pye, Katja Triplett: Pilgrimage visual. Hanging scrolls in everyday religious practice in Japan. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, vol. 5. Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939346-16-6 .
  • Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt (Ed.): Tibet in Marburg. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, Vol. 4. Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939346-03-6 .
  • Martin Kraatz (Ed.): Jizo Bosatsu - A Buddhist "saint" in Japan. Photographs and objects. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the University Library, Marburg September 6 - October 23, 1994. Publications of the Religious Studies Collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, Vol. 3. Marburg 1994. ISBN 3-9800442-2-X .
  • Martin Kraatz (ed.): Religious painting from Taiwan: The hell texts translated from Chinese by Jorinde Ebert and Barbara Kaulbach. for the exhibition of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University, Marburg, October 12th - November 23rd 1980 in Marburg, March 21st - May 3rd 1981 in Cologne. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg Vol. 2. Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-9800442-1-1 .
  • Martin Kraatz (ed.): Religious painting from Taiwan. Exhibition of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg, October 12th - November 23rd 1980, University Museum for Art a. Cultural History, Marburg, spring 1981, Museum for East Asia. Art, Cologne. Publications of the religious studies collection of the Philipps University of Marburg vol. 1. Marburg 1980, ISBN 3-9800442-0-3 .

literature

  • Rudolf Otto : The Marburg religious history collection. In: Communications University Association of Marburg. Marburg 1933. pp. 29-30.
  • Martin Kraatz: The religious studies collection of the Philipps University. In: alma mater Philippina , summer semester 1983. Marburg 1983. pp. 21–24.
  • Religious collection of the Philipps University. In: Museums in Hessen. A handbook of the publicly accessible museums and collections in the state of Hesse. 4th ed. Kassel 1994. pp. 115-116.
  • The religious studies collection in Marburg Castle. In: Marburg. The Philipps University and its city. Marburg. Pp. 134-137.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quote from Rudolf Otto. In: Communications University Association of Marburg. Marburg 1933, p. 29.
  2. ↑ The portrait of women (6): The religious scholar . In: Die Zeit , No. 52/1955.
  3. ↑ uni-marburg.de
  4. ↑ uni-marburg.de