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Subproject B03
Confessional Minorities as a Security Problem in the Early Modern Era
2. Funding period (2018-2021)
The subproject B03 investigates the conflict-prone role of religion in early modern multi-religious or -confessional societies. The connection of religion with security-related situational definitions and threat perceptions stimulated religiously legitimized or motivated conflicts, the object of which were often confessional minorities. The subproject analyzes the securitization of religious minorities in the context of external interventions in a comparative perspective, using the examples of English Catholics under Elizabeth I, Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and Orthodox and Protestants in Poland-Lithuania in the 18th century.
