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.

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.

24 Mar 2022

Why do people perform rituals?

Together with a colleague from University of Connecticut, Peter Maňo published an article on ritual exegesis of Mauritian Hindus in the journal Religion.

1 Jan 2022

The DISSINET team is now complete!

We are delighted to announce that, after two highly competitive hiring processes, DISSINET has gained two new members: Gideon Kotzé (computational linguist) and Larissa de Freitas Lyth (historian)

23 Dec 2021

Modelling German Waldensians’ social networks – thoughts of an associate researcher

BLOG: Reima Välimäki short report on researching Stettin Waldensians social networks and about his experience with the DISSINET data model.

17 Dec 2021

Tereza Menšíková received the IGA grant

17 Dec 2021

Jana Nenadalová received the IGA grant for a second time

The Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency will fund her project Sensing the Darkness: Field research of Dark therapy.