Religio

24/11/2025

"Minority Religions, the Law, and the Courts: Cases and Consequences" (James Richardson)
☝️New book available for free download until 1 December.☝️

James T. Richardson's Element "Minority Religions, the Law, and the Courts: Cases and Consequences" looks at the ways in which judicial and legal issues impact new religions, and how both religious groups, and the courts, change as a result.

It is available for free download until 1 December at the following link:

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Minority Religions, the Law, and the Courts

21/11/2025

OTRAVA BOHEM 🧪🧐

Zveme vás na debatu s religionistou Zdeňkem Vojtíškem a psychoterapeutkou Ivou Terezou Grosskopfovou.
Moderuje religionistka Jitka Schlichstová.

Kdy: 3. 12. v 18:00

Kde: FofrKafé Soukenda, Praha 1

Rezervujte si místo!

20/11/2025

🇺🇸 Webinář pro zájemce o studentská stipendia – 2026/27 🇺🇸

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Přijďte se podívat na online webinář.

Kdy: 12. prosince v 15:00

Co se dozvíte: Vše potřebné k přihlášce, jak ji strukturovat, a odpovíme na všechny vaše otázky.

REGISTRACE ZDE: https://forms.gle/JfD5bxuR4CMMeTWB9

Důležité termíny:

Uzávěrka přihlášek: 1. února 2026 (pro pobyty 4–9 měsíců v roce 2026/2027).

Potřebujete se na něco zeptat? Napište koordinátorce programu: Andrea Semancová (zc.vog.thgirbluf@avocnames).

Veškeré podrobné informace o stipendiu zde:
https://fulbright.gov.cz/stipendia/stipendium-pro-postgradualni-studium/

Stipendium je určeno pro studium či výzkum na úrovni Master nebo Ph.D. ve Spojených státech pro všechny obory s výjimkou klinické medicíny a programů MBA a LLM. Disability Accommodations – Candidates Resources Cílem pobytu může být jedna z těchto variant: Výzkumný pobyt (visiting...

11/11/2025

Už zítra a pozítří: přednášky zdarma na JU v Českých Budějovicích!
Tam by chtěl být každý 👍

06/11/2025

Full-time Job Offer in CEFRES, Prague 🇫🇷 🇨🇿

CFA | CEFRES is hiring a General Secretary Administrative and financial management of the centre, HR, budget supervision

Profile: Master’s degree (or equivalent experience), fluent in French, Czech, and English, with experience in Franco-Czech cooperation

Full-time position based in Prague under Czech law

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Start date: 1/12/2025

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05/11/2025

🧐JOB OFFER🧐 in Luxembourg
Postdoc in Migration History

Chaire Histoire & Migrations
University of Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 36 Month
Work Hours: Full Time 40.0 Hours per Week
Location: Belval Campus
The yearly gross salary for every Postdoctoral Researcher at the UL is EUR 85176 (full time).

Application webpage: https://uniluxembourg.recruitmentplatform.com/apply.html?jobId=PEYFK026203F3VBQB7V7VV4EL-158622&langCode=en_GB&sourceBoard=ResearchGate&source=ResearchGate&sType=ResearchGate&board_id=5262&board_name=ResearchGate

03/11/2025

INVITATION 🫵 (online access too)
to a CEDRR talk delivered by Roberto Mussinatto, a doctoral researcher in Medieval History at the Università di Padova, Universtà Ca’ Foscari Venezia, and at the Université Côte d’Azur, who will present his historical network analysis. Looking forward to meeting you in person or via the Zoom conference link.

CEDRR talk. Webs of Dissent: Inquisitorial Registers and Social Network Analysis for a Socio-Cultural History of Medieval Heresy

The activity of the medieval Inquisition was a complex social task whose effects extended far beyond the mere repression of religious dissent. The inquisitors not only drew boundaries between orthodox and unorthodox beliefs and practices, but also between social and political groups, whose internal structure and dynamics they exposed - or at least attempted to expose. Applying social network analysis tools to inquisitorial registers can therefore allow for a better understanding of how investigations worked, which social groups were inquired upon, and how ideas circulated within them. Based on an ongoing PhD research, this lecture will discuss some potential uses of SNA to construct a socio-cultural history of medieval religious dissent.

12 November 2025
10:00 at MUNI Arts - Arna Nováka 1, room B2.12
Video-conference link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92256181243
News item with full information: CEDRR talk. Webs of Dissent: Inquisitorial Registers and Social Network Analysis for a Socio-Cultural History of Medieval Heresy | Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET)

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31/10/2025

Ať už slavíte Samhein, Halloween, Dušičky, nebo cokoliv alternativního, nezapomeňte na kvalitní sezónní čtení! 🎃

Například:
Zuzana Marie Kostićová, Alternative spiritualities, Czech and worldwide, and Czech Academia
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/40186

Ze starších čísel pak tematický pohanský speciál: "Paganism and Its Others" (2023/1)
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/issue/view/2545

30/10/2025

🗣 Public talk:
Structures of Sentiment: Emotions, Respect, and the Evolution of Norm Psychology

Social norms are among the most theorized and studied phenomena across the human sciences. And for good reason--they are both the descriptive patterns of human social behaviour and the social expectations that compel adherence to such patterns. Yet for all their prominence and uses, a satisfying and unifying account of social norm learning and enforcement has remained elusive. Recently, evolution-minded scholars have turned to trying to unpack the black box of "norm psychology". This talk builds on these efforts by extending a novel model of the evolved structure of social affect to consider how social norms may emerge from the uniquely human sentiment respect.

When: Monday, 3.11.2025, 16:00-18:00.
Where: B2.113, building B at Faculty of Arts (Arna Nováka 1)

For those unable to attend in-person, the lecture will be streamed on zoom:
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98622487955

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22/10/2025

Can't wait for the new issue of Religio? 🤩

We have an ONLINE FIRST preview of the thematic issue "Buddhism in Tension: Identity, Power, and Representation" for you.

Read Tereza Menšíková's study "Reviving Buddhism in Western India: Pluralism and Cultural Hybridization in the Ambedkarite Buddhist Movement(s)"
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/41628

And also Jarmila Ptáčková's contribution, "Sinicisation of the Mind. Everyday Control and Patriotic Education in Tibetan Areas of the PRC"
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/41630

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20/10/2025

Nemůžete se už dočkat nového čísla Religio? 🤩

Máme pro vás ONLINE FIRST ochutnávku tematického čísla "Buddhism in Tension: Identity, Power, and Representation"

Přečtěte si studii Terezy Menšíkové "Reviving Buddhism in Western India: Pluralism and Cultural Hybridization in the Ambedkarite Buddhist Movement(s)"
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/41628

A také příspěvek Jarmily Ptáčkové, "Sinicisation of the Mind. Everyday Control and Patriotic Education in Tibetan Areas of the PRC"
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/41630

Image: Wikipedia Commons