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

LEVYNA

10 Nov

Estimated Costs and Benefits of Extreme Rituals in Mauritius

Why do people willingly engage in painful or exhausting rituals with no obvious material reward?

DISSINET

4 Oct

DISSINET publishes a transcription of the inquisition register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302

As part of DISSINET's corpus work, we have procured a transcription of the hitherto unpublished register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302, that we have made available in the Zenodo repository.

DISSINET

3 Oct

Extracting data from historical texts using Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant promise for extracting information from historical texts. If used appropriately, they can speed up the research process, compensating for resource limitations and helping researchers achieve ambitious objectives in quantitative cultural history.

From the Study

MgrBc

30 Jan

Vyhlášení výběrového řízení na studijní pobyty ERASMUS+

InvitationMgrBc

24 Jan

Monasticism beyond the Monastery: religious life and society in the medieval West (RLBcB547)

CEDRRPhD

15 Aug 2024

Summer schools on quantitative methods: A report by Tereza Menšíková

In this short text, Tereza looks back at the experience of attending summer schools focusing on quantitative methods and evaluates how beneficial it was for her research and self-development in the Study of religions.