Month: June 2016

All participants of the 4th workshop on June 16 and 17, 2016, had the option to discuss relevant topics, such as Islam, communication of values and radicalization, with Jörn Thielmann, managing director of EZIRE. The objective is to develop the teaching in professional integrated classes at vocat...

Since the beginning of the so-called 'refugee-crisis', more and more under-aged girls enter Germany accompanied by their full-aged husbands. It is impossible to capture how many of them there actually are, since not all German federal states register under-age-marriages. "A reliable estimate of the ...

The authors of the books show the immense importance of all kinds of migration for the central Alpine region in the last 300 years, contradicting the fixed self-image of a supposedly settled community. The variety of migration is surprising and doesn’t stop with the well-known Bündner Zuckerbäcker (...

On the 10th of June 2016, the research group on "Islam in Bavaria", headed by the Islamic Scholar and jurisprudent Mathias Rohe, presented its initial findings in the Water’s Hall of the Orangery of Erlangen. Aim of the project, which has been initiated by the Bavarian ministry of education and cult...

Book presentation by Gerdien Jonker on 9th June 2016 at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin: What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of ...

At the annual reception of bishop Trelle in Hildesheim, Prof. Mathias Rohe gave a speech on migration, integration and the German legal culture. "Our legal system has to be a blueprint of lasting peace", said Rohe, who is founding rector of the Erlangen centre for Islam and peace in Europe (EZIRE). ...