Martin Christ

Martin Christ is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt. His research focuses on Religious and Confessional Coexistence (especially in Central Europe), History of Death and Burials, and Urban History (comparing England and Germany).

• Current project: Between conflict and contact: Hội An (Vietnam) and the “South China Sea”, c. 1500-1850, exploring the South China Sea as a multi-layered space of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict.
• Completed projects include The power of the dead. Burials and Cemeteries in London and Munich, ca. 1550-1870 and Biographies of a Reformation. Confessional coexistence and religious change in Upper Lusatia.

He co-edited the special issue Conversions and Lutheranism (Journal of Early Modern Christianity) and co-organized the Summer School Performing Religion in the City. His work engages with Michel Foucault’s concept of power and challenges historiographical paradigms like the “urban Reformation” and “confessionalization.”