CAS-E Newsletter 2025/04
CAS-E Reorientation (2026–2030)
Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective Here you find an overview of CAS-E’s extension phase (2026–2030) and the reorientation informing it.
CAS-E Awarded €4.6 mil for Second Phase!
CAS-E among the three research centers at FAU to receive funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Read more here (German).
Religion & New Religious Movements in Contemporary Crises
CAS-E Permanent Fellow Kelly Hayes hosts podcast with CAS-E Permanent Fellow Knut Graw, Daria Hartmann and Benjamin Zeller. This episode of Religion & delves into how contemporary religious movements address urgent political, cultural, and environmental crises, from technological transformation to ecological collapse. Looking across a wide array of new religious movements, participants will investigate how […]
Predictive Processing and the Study of Esoteric Practices
Workshop rganised by: Bernd-Christian Otto in collaboration with Dirk Johannsen (Oslo University, Norway) CAS-E Workshop “Predictice Processing and the Study of Esoteric Practices” January 21, 2026 Organised by Bernd-Christian Otto in collaboration with Dirk Johannsen, Oslo University, Norway In recent years, foundational assumptions within the cognitive science of religion have been challenged by the rapid […]
Different Perspectives on the Yogic Body: Kundalini’s Thousand Guises
A workshop by Dr. hab. Bernd-Christian Otto, Permanent Fellow, CAS-E, and Dr. Monika Hirmer, Postdoc Research Coordinator, CAS-E
Lecture Series Winter 2025/26
Warum lieben wir Magie, Dr. Bernd Christian Otto?
Montag, 26. Mai 2025. Die beliebtesten Traumreisen auf Entspannung wirkt tragen magische Titel: Der Magische Wintergarten, Magie der Erde, Der Magische Wunderladen. Aber warum ist das so? Warum zieht uns das Wort Magie so sehr an – auch als Erwachsene? Und warum hatte ich als Journalistin gleichzeitig oft das Bedürfnis, mich davon abzugrenzen? Weiter zum Interview hier.
CAS-E Newsletter 2025/02
Daoist Internal Alchemy and Science in Contemporary Taiwan
Workshop organized by CAS-E Fellow Prof. Fabrizio Pregadio. July 10-11, 2025, CAS-E, Big Seminar Room in D1, Hartmannstr. 14, Erlangen Open to the public For information: fabrizio.pregadio@fau.de This workshop addresses a subject barely explored in Western-language scholarship: the modernization and “scientization” of the Daoist practice of Internal Alchemy (Neidan) in contemporary Taiwan. […]
