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SinnRäume. An Exhibition | 41www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/2, 37–51 every room i live in is special for me and has my writing on it. My biography certainly plays a role here, in that i have received many valuable gifts and religious tokens, but also that this space serves my day-to-day life.8 (thomas, January 2015, 00:12:30) i am not a Buddhist, certainly not, but i love the Buddhas because they remind me of india. Just like some odors or colors are connections to india for me.9 (esther, october 2014, 00:40:59) When we pray here at home, we look to Mecca. i have an app on my mobile that reminds you of the prayer times and even the direction to pray in – looking roughly to the south-east.10 (tabish, June 2014, 00:18:23) When you move into your first own apartment, you really try to make it comfortable. i think, in the beginning, you really miss your old home. your mother and your father or your own room. and i wanted to make it as comfortable as possible and for me that definitely included that I have these objects that I associate with Judaism here as well.11 (rahel, september 2014, 00:59:21) these examples present individuals with varied living and religious models and were not chosen as representative of certain religions. the selection challenges visitors with the idea that in their own local neighborhoods there exist many dif- ferent world views that despite their geographical proximity differ significantly from their own. in the exhibition, these eight case studies are augmented by religious stud- ies concepts divided into the working categories “religion”, “space”, “things”,12 and “living”. these terms emerged in the course of the research as common core elements of the interviews. they were chosen as working categories on the basis of empirical analysis. they point to issues of everyday practice, socio- spatial construction, religious concepts and meanings, and narratives of objects and thus form the theoretical background to the exhibition. Contemporary dis- 8 “Jeder raum, den ich bewohne und belebe, ist für mich heimat und kriegt dann auch meine hand- schrift. da spielt sicherlich meine Lebensgeschichte eine rolle, dass es viele wertvolle Geschenke und religiöse Zeichen gibt, aber auch das dieser raum meinem Leben dient”, thomas, January 2015, 00:12:30. 9 “ich bin kein Buddhist. Ganz bestimmt nicht, aber die Buddhas liebe ich, weil sie mich an indien erin- nern. Genauso wie manche Gerüche oder farben für mich Verbindungen zu indien sind”, esther, octo- ber 2014, 00:40:59. 10 “Wenn wir hier zu hause beten, richten wir uns nach Mekka aus. auf meinem handy habe ich eine app, da kann man sich an die Gebetszeiten erinnern lassen und sogar an die Gebetsrichtung – so ungefähr nach südosten”, tabish, June 2014, 00:18:23. 11 “Wenn man das erste Mal umzieht und eine eigene Wohnung hat, dann ist man wirklich bemüht sich das gemütlich zu machen. ich glaube, am anfang vermisst man doch sehr das eigene zu hause. Bei Mama und Papa oder das eigene Zimmer. Und ich wollte es mir schon so gemütlich wie möglich ein- richten und da hat es bei mir definitiv dazu gehört, dass ich diese Objekte, die ich mit dem Judentum verbinde, auch hier habe”, rahel, september 2014, 00:59:21. 12 We chose to use the term “thing” (Ding) instead of “object” (Objekt) in this context because it implies neither the existence of neither a subject nor a subject–object relationship. We understand “thing” as an overarching term that includes human and natural artefacts.