Department for the Study of Religions

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

29 May

CEDRR talk: Analyzing non-local influence processes in dynamic networks

4:00 PM

DISSINET team invites you to a guest lecture on dynamic networks by Daniel Gotthardt from Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Colleagues unaffiliated with Masaryk University are welcome to attend online.

23 Jan 2020

A new research called “SACRIFICE” has been just launched

It will examine how participation in costly rituals affects the willingness to sacrifice one’s resources during inter-group conflict.

10 Jan 2020

Bibliography: 2,000 records

The publicly available DISSINET bibliography in Zotero has reached 2,000 records.

23 Dec 2019

Our Ph.D. students received a grant from the Development Fund of Masaryk University

They will use the money to create a new and innovative course in which they will focus on the evolution of human cooperation and the role that religion played in this process.

30 Nov 2019

New book by D. Zbíral

David Zbíral has published a new book entitled Pokřtění ohněm: Katarské křesťanství ve světle pramenů (12.-14. století).

18 Nov 2019

Map: Cathar houses, 1175–1244

New dataset and digital map of the “houses of heretics”.

2 Oct 2019

Jan Horský won the second place in the student poster competition

Jan was awarded at the conference PTNCE 2019 held in Prague with a large LEVYNA presence.

10 Sep 2019

Martin Lang is this year’s recipient of the IAPR’s Early Career Award

Martin was awarded the prize at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR). On this occasion, he also delivered the invited lecture “Religions as complex adaptive systems: The evolutionary paths of religious beliefs and behaviors.”

2 Sep 2019

Do extreme religious rituals positively affect the wellbeing of ritual practitioners?

An answer to this and related questions can be found in our new paper in Current Anthropology. In collaboration with our colleagues, we have investigated the Thaipusam Kavadi ritual in relation to its purported effect on psychophysiological wellbeing.