Department for the Study of Religions

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

25 Apr

CEDRR and LEVYNA guest lecture "Cognition and Rituals in the Cult of Mithras - A New Theoretical Approach"

4:00 PM

Dr. Blanka Misic from the University of Vienna, Austria (Institut für Klassische Archäologie), will deliver a lecture focusing on the topic of ritual practices and the range of religious experiences that occurred within Mithraic religious communities in the Roman Empire.

27 Sep 2018

A Research expedition to the island of Mauritius

In July 2018 team LEVYNA set out for its regular research expedition to the island of Mauritius, our primary field side. Together with other collaborators, we were collecting data for six different projects focused mainly on religious beliefs and behaviors.

21 May 2018

Jakub Cigán received an internal grant from Masaryk University.

The grant will help Jakub with the preparation of a monograph reporting on his fieldwork among Czech Protestants where he combines classical ethnographic methods and signaling theories to understand the nature of religious conversion.

17 May 2018

Dr. Cigán was succesful in grant competition for book "Remembering and Displaying: Cognitive Science of Religious Conversion"

21 Mar 2018

Paper from GEHIR Project in PLOS One

We are announcing with joy that computational history research paper analyzing ancient Ptolemaic cults of Isis and Serapis was published. Congratulation to the authors

8 Mar 2018

New research on costly rituals among university fraternities

Have you ever heard about or actually underwent initiation rituals that are obligatory for membership in a college fraternity or sorority? You may be interested in a new study featuring LEVYNA!

5 Nov 2017