Department for the Study of Religions

10 Dec 2023

CEDRR students were on a writing retreat

From December 6 to 8, student members of the Centre for the Digital Research of Religion were on the first-ever writing retreat organized by CEDRR.

1 Dec 2023

DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI

David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.

29 Nov 2023

Book chapter in the newly published The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research

Vojtěch Kaše (University of West Bohemia), Tomáš Glomb (Masaryk University), and Jan Fousek (Aix-Marseille University) contributed to the new Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research with the chapter Networks and Religious Transformations.

27 Nov 2023

Magisterská práce Dana Pecky byla oceněna cenou děkana FF MUNI.

21 Nov 2023

CREDO project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation in the Junior Star program!

Martin Lang received the Czech National Foundation’s Junior Star grant with his project titled Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Affects Normative Models in the Mind.

14 Nov 2023

Two LEVYNA graduates have been awarded for excellent study results

The vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at Masaryk University has awarded two LEVYNA graduates - Dan Řezníček and Radim Chvaja with a price for excellent results during their Ph.D. studies.

9 Nov 2023

DISSINET’s article on sentencing in early inquisition trials published in Historical Methods

DISSINET article applying computational methods to sentencing in early inquisition trials published in a top ranking journal Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.

19 Sep 2023

Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct?

Why did inquisitors interrogate women in different spaces than they did men? DISSINET looks into this in the most important history magazine worldwide, History Today.