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.

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

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.

19 May 2023

Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35

Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.

5 May 2023

Naše studentka Eliška Vrbová získala grant GAMU - zúčastněte se jejího výzkumu!

27 Apr 2023

CEDRR has a visiting researcher!

Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.

17 Apr 2023

Funding for a registered report

Jana Nenadalová, Piotr Szymanek (Jagiellonian University), and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University) received a grant from the Open Science of Religion initiative (supported by the John Templeton Foundation) for a virtual reality study.

31 Mar 2023

Michal Puchovský defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, called Modern Pagan Music in the Czech Republic, he analysed the pagan elements in the work of selected bands from the Czech Republic that publicly admit to being inspired by Paganism.

31 Mar 2023

Radim Chvaja defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled Costly signaling theory of pilgrimage: The case study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, he studied whether pilgrimages may function as costly signals of commitment to group norms.