Congratulations to the Department of Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics on the approval of a new project: For the next 18 months, the Volkswagen Foundation will financially support the project, which explores the role of transcultural semantics and symbols for resilience during the Corona pandemic.
The project follows a hermeneutic approach and combines historical perspectives, semantic analysis, cultural theory and anthropology. It aims to investigate the impact of transcultural symbolism on resilience in the transcultural dimension of the Corona pandemic.
Resilience has once again become a concept of central importance during the Corona pandemic. As in other moments of crisis, resilience develops in individual and social contexts and finds expression in diverse semantic and symbolic reactions to actual and expected scenarios.
We look forward to the first results of the new resilience project!