Focus Project "History of Sexuality"
and sees itself as a Western European area study. Through concrete practices of contraception, abortion, and premarital, extramarital, and marital sexual acts, the project examines a changing everyday [...] Casanova and the anthropologist Talal Asad, who overcame binary ideas of a religious and increasingly private sphere on the one hand and a secular public (state) sphere on the other, for the modern age. The [...] ecclesiastical ties, and faith itself. Following Clifford Geertz, the project is based on a broad understanding of religion as a system of cultural meanings that incorporates individual needs for affection and