Department for the Study of Religions

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Connecting the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences in the study of religious traditions and their general conditions

We educate

"Religious Studies taught me above all to think critically — to look up sources, not to accept everything as given fact, but to ask questions and investigate."

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We experiment

We study religious behavior in collaboration with the natural and social sciences.

I want to know more!

We organize lectures, workshops and conferences

We invite leading experts on both classic and new topics to Brno.

Look!

We map

We model religious behavior
in space and time. We strive to see connections —
the individual within the whole.

Show me!

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From the Research and Deparment

DISSINET

4 Apr 2019

Website of the DISSINET Project

We launch the website of the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET).

DISSINET

26 Mar 2019

New member of DISSINET

Dr. Robert Shaw joins the DISSINET team.

LEVYNA

8 Mar 2019

New article testing the influence of moralizing gods on intragroup and intergroup cooperation

Our new paper in which we test on cross-cultural sample whether beliefs in omniscient and punitive moralizing gods contribute to the scaling up of cooperative societies and whether they apply also beyond co-religionist circles as far as to religious outgroups has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

From the Study

LEVYNAPhD

4 Oct 2018