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

23 Jun 2023

A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team

The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.

TIP

DISSINET

1 Jun 2023

InkVisitor website launched

The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.

DISSINET

22 May 2023

Map of Early Heresy cases in the West, c.1000-c.1150

The interactive map application presents dataset of early cases of heresy in the West, ca. 1000–1150, compiled from original Latin sources. It shows locations, heresy cases linked to those locations, and mentions in the sources, on which the description is based.

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

A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team

InkVisitor website launched

Map of Early Heresy cases in the West, c.1000-c.1150

From the Study

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