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13 Aug 2019

How to integrate the sciences and humanities in the study of religion?

Martin Lang and Radek Kundt provide their answer in a new piece published in the journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.

5 Jun 2019

GAMU-E Grant goes to LEVYNA

Martin Lang and Jan Krátký succeeded in the call of the Grant Agency of Masaryk University with the project "The Entropy-Reduction Model of Ritualized Behavior".

22 May 2019

A prestigious award goes to Martin Lang

Martin Lang has been awarded the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 in social sciences and humanities.

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.

8 May 2019

A new theoretical article about the difference between the theory of costly signaling and CREDs with application on religious phenomena

A new article has just been published in Human Ethology, in which our PhD students explain the relation between two theories of religious displays – the costly signaling theory and the credibility enhancing displays theory (CREDs).

1 May 2019

New member of DISSINET

4 Apr 2019

Website of the DISSINET Project

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

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.