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CEDRR

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

CEDRR

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.

CEDRR

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.

CEDRR

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.

DISSINET

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“.

CEDRR

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.

DISSINET

27 Nov 2023

CASTEMO data blooms in Neo4j graph databases

Great news! CASTEMO data collected in InkVisitor can now be readily outputted into Neo4j graph databases. Neo4j allows for collected data to be flexibly explored, queried, enriched, and analysed with graph tools.

LEVYNA

21 Nov 2023

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.

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Why has Marcion failed? New article on the role of Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity

New article on collectivity within the Ambedkarite Buddhist population

Tomáš Glomb got the MUNI Scientist Award

CEDRR students were on a writing retreat

DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI

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

CASTEMO data blooms in Neo4j graph databases

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