19 May

Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35

Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.

5 May

Naše studentka Eliška Vrbová získala grant GAMU - zúčastněte se jejího výzkumu!

27 Apr

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.

17 Apr

Funding for a registered report

Jana Nenadalová, Piotr Szymanek (Jagiellonian University), and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University) received a grant from the Open Science of Religion initiative (supported by the John Templeton Foundation) for a virtual reality study.

31 Mar

Michal Puchovský defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, called Modern Pagan Music in the Czech Republic, he analysed the pagan elements in the work of selected bands from the Czech Republic that publicly admit to being inspired by Paganism.

31 Mar

Radim Chvaja defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled Costly signaling theory of pilgrimage: The case study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, he studied whether pilgrimages may function as costly signals of commitment to group norms.

30 Mar

Jan Horský defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled “Wu-Tang Is for the Children”: The Cultural Transmission of Moral Norms Through Narrative, he studied the cultural transmission of moral norms, focusing on American rap music.

14 Mar

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.

9 Dec 2022

Ritualization reduces anxiety

Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja published a chapter discussing the relationship between ritual and anxiety in The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion.

8 Dec 2022

Ritualization reduces anxiety

Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, and Dimitris Xygalatas published a paper on ritualization and anxiety reduction in Scientific Reports.

7 Dec 2022

Rituals and moral norm objectivization

Radim Chvaja, Jan Horský, Martin Lang, and Radek Kundt published a study on ritual and objectivity of moral norms in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.

5 Dec 2022

Tomáš Glomb wrote a book on the spread of the Egyptian cults

The book Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean written by Tomáš Glomb has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

2 Dec 2022

Reapproaching inquisition records

David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda.

20 Oct 2022

What do nonbelievers believe in?

In a paper published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Eva Kundtová Klocová and Dan Řezníček collaborated with an international research team lead by Valerie van Mulukom to study worldviews of nonbelievers.

18 Oct 2022

What motivates ritual participation?

In the journal Slovak Ethnology, Peter Maňo and Dimitris Xygalatas published an article focused on the motivations to partake in rituals.

18 Oct 2022

LEVYNA has a new director

Martin Lang took on the role of LEVYNA’s director after Radek Kundt.

13 Oct 2022

Rap music and moral norms

Jan Horský published an article on the role of narrative art in the transmission of moral norms in the Journal of Cognition and Culture.

10 Oct 2022

Computing the Past Together (Conference in Pilsen, 6-8 October)

Conference Computing the Past was jointly organized by Computing Culture & Society Laboratory (CCS-Lab) and CEDRR to create an interdisciplinary meeting point for several historically oriented fields in humanities.

4 Oct 2022

DISSINET Digital Humanities approach presented in a podcast

David Zbíral was invited to a podcast by the Centre of Early Medieval Studies to talk about digital humanities approch in the research of medieval dissident communities.

3 Oct 2022

CEDRR has a new head!

The translatio imperii in CEDRR is finished and our Tomáš Glomb has taken up the responsibilities from the previous head and co-founder of the centre, David Zbíral, who will continue as the PI of the ERC DISSINET project and will remain the bedrock of CEDRR.

3 Oct 2022

Early Christian Baptisteries online

The most up-to-date geocoded dataset of 1,100+ Christian buildings from 3rd-12th century created with participation of DISSINET project now available online.

29 Sep 2022

LEVYNA members became IACESR elects

Within the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion, Eva Kundtová Klocová was elected a secretary general and Martin Lang a member at large.

Information for PhD students

Information regarding the change to the new PhD study programme - course comparison table.

Úvodní setkání se studentkami a studenty prvního ročníku

Structured data vs. contextual complexity of texts: An unnecessary dilemma?

David Zbíral and Robert Shaw briefly introduce the Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO), an approach to the human-controlled and data-driven transformation of texts to richly structured data, which was developed within DISSINET modelling of historical textual sources.

1 Jul 2022

In the core of debate on affluence and the rise of moralizing religions in the ancient Mediterranean

Vojtěch Kaše and Tomáš Glomb contributed to the discussion on the relationship between affluence and the rise of moralizing religions in Religion, Brain & Behavior through the commentary of the target article by Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse et al.

17 Jun 2022

CEDRR members at the Religious Networks in Antiquity workshop in Bergen

CEDRR members Aleš Chalupa and Tomáš Hampejs visited Tomáš Glomb at the Religious Networks in Antiquity workshop that he co-organized with Francesca Mazzilli, Eivind Seland, and The Connected Past initiative at the University of Bergen as part of his Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (June 7-8, 2022).

15 Jun 2022

Rituals signal mate quality

Peter Maňo, Radek Kundt, and Eva Kundtová Klocová, together with Dimitris Xygalatas, published an article on rituals as signals of mate quality in the journal Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.

13 Jun 2022

Advertising cooperativeness

In the journal Royal Society Open Science, Martin Lang, Radim Chvaja, and David Václavík, together with Benjamin G. Purzycki, and Rostislav Staněk, published an article on how costly signals communicate cooperative intentions.

7 Jun 2022

"Cognitive" science of religion?

In the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Eva Kundtová Klocová published a commentary on Claire White’s book An introduction to the cognitive science of religion.

14 Apr 2022

The Evolution of Religion and Morality

Coedited by Martin Lang, Benjamin Purzycki, Joseph Henrich, and Ara Norenzayan, and featuring LEVYNA researchers, Religion, Brain & Behavior published a double issue reporting results of the second wave of The Evolution of Religion and Morality Project.