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.

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We organize lectures, workshops and conferences

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

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We map

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

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From the Research and Deparment

LEVYNA

16 Feb 2019

New Publication on Identity Fusion Theory

Our new paper in which dr. Ben Purzycki (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Lipsko) and Martin Lang are testing the identity fusion theory on a cross-cultural data set is out in Cognition.

LEVYNA

16 Feb 2019

New Textbook of Cognitive Science of Religion

LEVYNA has a chapter in a new Bloomsbury Press textbook in which we explain in depth our experiment on ritualized behavior and anxiety.

LEVYNA

4 Jan 2019

New edited volume in honor of Armin W. Geertz

LEVYNA has contributed two chapters to the new edited volume Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesispublished in honor of Armin W. Geertz.

From the Study

LEVYNAPhD

4 Oct 2018

Department for the Study of Religions

We educate

We experiment

We organize lectures, workshops and conferences

We map

From the Research and Deparment

New Publication on Identity Fusion Theory

New Textbook of Cognitive Science of Religion

New edited volume in honor of Armin W. Geertz

From the Study

Peter Maňo received John McGraw Award for Best Student Contribution at IACSR 2018