The so-called Death of God Controversy sets the stage for a prevalent conflict between emic and etic interpretations of Religion in (post-)modernity. Etic perspectives tend to treat it as a social or intellectual shift closely associated with secularization, the end of classical metaphysics or even the demise religion as a whole. Emic perspectives view it as a fundamental religious and existential feeling or attitude towards life. Who or what, then, is dead: an idea or a being? Can this distinction even be made? The two perspectives not only influence each other but often become indiscernible and thus question the fundamental distinction between an internal and an external viewpoint of religion. Rather, the ‘Death of God’ is one of the foremost areas where our times intellectually reflect on the overall place of religion in human life. For example, is a “God without Being” (J.-L. Marion) dead or truly alive in a new form, and is the concept of God here even distinguishable anymore from the existentially religious engagements of those who adhere to it? The panel explores the amalgamation of internal and external perspectives on religion that are associated with the Death of God debate, in which existential attunement and intellectual outlooks suddenly become indiscernible. It thus aims to describe our times “after the Death of God” (G. Vattimo, D. Caputo) as deeply religious times. Chair: Philipp David (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)Speakers: Philipp David (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Introduction: The ‘Death of God’ as a Religious Diagnosis of the Times? Friedrike Rass (Stiftung Pfarrer Sieber), The Death of God as the Conditio Humana of Modern Faith Katharina Eberlein-Braun (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), Which Death, which Life? Weak Thought, Images and Fragments inside and outside of Religion Daniel T. Fishley (McGill University), Knowing God’s Death: Hermeneutics, Historicism, and the Problem of Knowledge in the Work of John D. Caputo Lukas Sulzer (Universität Heidelberg), The ‘Death of God’ – the Presence of the Absence as the Religious?Martin Jockel (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), The Death (and Resurrection) of the Author-God? Theological Readings of a Seminal Debate in Literary Theor