Department for the Study of Religions

1 Dec

DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI

David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.

29 Nov

Book chapter in the newly published The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research

Vojtěch Kaše (University of West Bohemia), Tomáš Glomb (Masaryk University), and Jan Fousek (Aix-Marseille University) contributed to the new Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research with the chapter Networks and Religious Transformations.

27 Nov

Magisterská práce Dana Pecky byla oceněna cenou děkana FF MUNI.

21 Nov

CREDO project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation in the Junior Star program!

Martin Lang received the Czech National Foundation’s Junior Star grant with his project titled Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Affects Normative Models in the Mind.

14 Nov

Two LEVYNA graduates have been awarded for excellent study results

The vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at Masaryk University has awarded two LEVYNA graduates - Dan Řezníček and Radim Chvaja with a price for excellent results during their Ph.D. studies.

9 Nov

DISSINET’s article on sentencing in early inquisition trials published in Historical Methods

DISSINET article applying computational methods to sentencing in early inquisition trials published in a top ranking journal Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.

19 Sep

Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct?

Why did inquisitors interrogate women in different spaces than they did men? DISSINET looks into this in the most important history magazine worldwide, History Today.

17 Aug

Phases of the menstrual cycle have no effects on incentivized decision-making

In an incentivized controlled lab experiment published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, Miloš Fišar together with members of LEVYNA and other colleagues show that there are no systematic effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes like risk preferences, rule violation, and exploratory attitude.