TIP 17 May 2024 Call for papers for IAHR 2025 Panel Call for papers for a panel at the 23rd Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the Historyof Religions (IAHR), Kraków, Poland, August 24–30, 2025
30 Apr 2024 Tereza Menšíková at Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2024 Tereza Menšíková recently attended the prestigious Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2024, held this year at Michigan State University.
10 Apr 2024 Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300 DISSINET has developed an interactive map of the occupations, dissident religious affiliations, and locations of residence of nearly 900 persons suspected of heresy in the inquisition register of Bologna, 1291–1310.
29 Mar 2024 Towards a corpus of medieval inquisition records: First numbers Building upon the invaluable work of modern editors, the DISSINET project is building a textual corpus of medieval inquisitorial material, which now contains 15 registers, totals over 1.6 million tokens, and ranges from North-Central Italy through Languedoc to England, and from the 1230s until the 1520s.
6 Mar 2024 Uncertainty in a sensory deprived environment triggers the feeling of another person’s presence In a paper published in Religion, Brain & Behavior, J. Nenadalová & D. Řezníček demonstrated that some study participants in a sensory-deprived laboratory environment sensed the presence of another person. This feeling was mostly associated with perceived uncertainty and only somewhat associated with psychological dispositions.
16 Feb 2024 Descriptive norms about gender equality at home were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic In a cross-national investigation published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, F. M. Saxler with LEVYNA’s E. Kundtová Klocová and other colleagues show that the COVID-19 pandemic affected young people’s normative beliefs about unpaid domestic work; and that this effect is stronger in countries with greater gender inequality.
16 Feb 2024 New paper on the role of costly signals during intergroup conflict In a series of experimental studies M. Lang with R. Chvaja and B. G. Purzycki demonstrated that costly signals assort more cooperative participants who create ultra-cooperative, successful groups.
6 Feb 2024 DISSINET’s article on the spatiality of heresy prosecutions published in Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Science Communications DISSINET has published a new article on toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions in a Springer-Nature journal, contributing to systematic analysis of European inquisition records as structured data.
8 Jan 2024 New book on the evolution of religion and morality This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project in a book format. This volume was edited by Martin Lang et al.
5 Jan 2024 Why has Marcion failed? New article on the role of Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity Article Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities authored by Dalibor Papoušek and Zdeněk Pospíšil has been published in Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution
2 Jan 2024 New article on collectivity within the Ambedkarite Buddhist population Tereza Menšíková contributed to the Journal of Global Buddhism with the study Negotiating Boundaries Between "Religious" and "Secular": A Struggle for the Sense of Collectivity Among Ambedkarite Buddhists in Maharashtra.
19 Dec 2023 Tomáš Glomb got the MUNI Scientist Award Doctor Glomb won the award for the publication of the book Connecting the Isiac Cults, which is the culmination of his long-term research on the spread of the Egyptian cults in the Hellenistic period.
10 Dec 2023 CEDRR students were on a writing retreat From December 6 to 8, student members of the Centre for the Digital Research of Religion were on the first-ever writing retreat organized by CEDRR.
1 Dec 2023 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 2023 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.
