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.

27 May 2024

Did medieval inquisitors fear accusations of sexual misconduct?

It is a familiar image: a woman in distress, surrounded by men examining her soul in a dimly lit inquisitorial chamber. In fear of physical torture, she confesses to crimes she never committed. We bring you an online version of our article originally published in History Today.

20 May 2024

Proběhl CEDRR workshop pro studenty "Poprvé v GISu"

TIP

17 May 2024

Call for papers for IAHR 2025 Panel

Call for papers for a panel at the 23rd Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History
of Religions (IAHR), Kraków, Poland, August 24–30, 2025

30 Apr 2024

Tereza Menšíková at Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2024

Tereza Menšíková recently attended the prestigious Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2024, held this year at Michigan State University.

10 Apr 2024

Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300

DISSINET has developed an interactive map of the occupations, dissident religious affiliations, and locations of residence of nearly 900 persons suspected of heresy in the inquisition register of Bologna, 1291–1310.

29 Mar 2024

Towards a corpus of medieval inquisition records: First numbers

Building upon the invaluable work of modern editors, the DISSINET project is building a textual corpus of medieval inquisitorial material, which now contains 15 registers, totals over 1.6 million tokens, and ranges from North-Central Italy through Languedoc to England, and from the 1230s until the 1520s.

6 Mar 2024

Uncertainty in a sensory deprived environment triggers the feeling of another person’s presence

In a paper published in Religion, Brain & Behavior, J. Nenadalová & D. Řezníček demonstrated that some study participants in a sensory-deprived laboratory environment sensed the presence of another person. This feeling was mostly associated with perceived uncertainty and only somewhat associated with psychological dispositions.