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

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.

From the Study

LEVYNAGrantPhD

13 May 2019

Radim Chvaja has been awarded the EHBEA’s Student Research Grant

Our Ph.D. student Radim Chvaja has been awarded student grant from European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) that will enable him to study religious pilgrimage in Mauritius.

LEVYNAPhD

19 Nov 2018

Eva Kundtová Klocová was awarded the Dean's Prize