SCAS News - 3 September, 2015

SCAS Non-resident Long-term Fellow Hans Joas has Received the Max Planck Research Award

The Swedish Collegium's Non-resident Long-term Fellow Hans Joas has recently received the prestigious
Max Planck Research Award 2015, together with Bryan S. Turner. The focus topic of this year’s award is
“Religion and Modernity - Secularization, Social and Religious Plurality”.

The prize is conferred annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society
upon one researcher working in Germany and one working abroad. It is funded by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research and the award winners receive EUR 750,000 each. The award ceremony
will take place on 8 December, 2015.

Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and
Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He does also have a long-term
affiliation to the Swedish Collegium as a Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes in Theoretical
and Historical Social Science and Religious Studies. Joas has been in residence at SCAS on several occasions,
most recently in the spring of 2010.

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