CEDRR
Centre for the Digital Research of Religion

The Centre for the Digital Research of Religion (CEDRR) at Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department for the Study of Religions is an interdisciplinary centre applying computational methods in research into religion. It represents a focal point of competence in Computational and Digital Humanities at Masaryk University and hosts the Generative Historiography of Religion Project (GEHIR), the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), the Cultural Evolution of Moralizing Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean (CEMRAM), as well as several other research endeavours. It makes use of various computational approaches ranging from network analysis and quantitative text analysis through geographic information science to agent-based modelling, set in the broader framework of computational social science. Within the Study of Religions Ph.D. curriculum, CEDRR allows students to combine competence in computational techniques with solid domain knowledge in their respective areas of expertise.

CEDRR in a nutshell:

research-oriented computational approach to religion;
distinctive focus on premodern history;
various methods of computational analysis;
outstanding record of external funding, including an ERC Consolidator Grant;
English Ph.D. programme in the Study of Religions.

News

27 Apr 2023

CEDRR has a visiting researcher!

Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.

21 Apr 2023

Mapping the Latin of medieval inquisition records: DISSINET’s lexico-semantic network as a language resource

As an important product of DISSINET analytical work, there is a specialised language resource for Latin on the horizon. The aim is to enrich the description of the medieval Latin language and improve the quality of computational analysis performed on Latin sources.

14 Mar 2023

CEDRR is a new member of the Czech Association for Digital Humanities

From now on, CEDRR is an active participant in the debate on the shape and form of Digital Humanities on a national level.

20 Dec 2022

Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records?

ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, has taken the Internet by storm and has generated quite a fuss also in the DISSINET team. First impressions of ChatGPT’s reaction to medieval Latin texts are astonishing.