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International workshop organized by the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (funded by the German Research Foundation – FOR 2779)We inviteabstracts for a conference on ‘Religiousguides to urbanity’. This workshop focuses on theregulation of urban life through orders, ordinances, instructions and otherforms of written authoritative communication that are spurred by religiousmotivations, betray religious concerns, or target religious behaviors andmisbehaviors. It takes a broad chronological and cross-cultural view in orderto compare urban productions as diverse as anti-idolatrous regulations authoredby late antique Christian and Jewish religious specialists, instructionslikethe Muslim hisba,council orders of early modern European towns (Polizeyordnungen),and othertextualizedstrategies to promote and/or impose a ‘safe urban life’.As suggestedby the notion of ‘urban religion’, which considers the spatially informeddialectic of co-production of urban life and religious communication, the focusof the workshop is twofold: on the one hand, it addresses the regulation ofreligious life and the ways in which religious texts aim to shape the urbanconditions of living, and on the other hand it looks at how urban spaces,actors, and ideals of urbanity generate more or less binding projects ofreligious normativity. The workshop takes a source-based approach and seeks to take a close look at individual sources and their interpretation to enable meaningful comparisons across cultures past and present. Abstractsshould be 300 to 500 words in length. Thedeadline for submitting an abstract is 15February 2020. We hope that the publication of thepapers after the conference will be acornerstone in the emergingfieldof urban religion.Conferenceroom and accommodation will be providedat the Augustinerkloster(Augustinerstraße10) in the historical centreof Erfurt. Travel expenses will be refunded according to the ThüringerReisekostengesetz(economy flight, 2nd class train ticket). Abstractsand any queries can be submitted to:urbrel-conf@uni-erfurt.de Conveners: Martin Christ, Emiliano Urciuoli