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Switzerland in the Making

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Current blog posts

Skulls and Skeletons

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson

28. March 2023

Skeletons and skulls have become cult symbols through artists and rock bands. However, the representation of life and death have a much older tradition.

Switzerland’s rocky road to religious freedom

Josef Lang

23. March 2023

The Federal Constitution only became secular in 1874 when it granted religious freedom to the Jewish minority. In the current version, there are still two exemption clauses concerning Muslims.

Minor language, monumental work

Peter Egloff

21. March 2023

In his ‘Rätoromanische Chrestomathie’, unconventional Graubünden politician and cultural scholar Caspar Decurtins (1855-1916) created the most important older source text on the Romansh culture of his home canton. And did so while accomplishing a great deal more.