2,121 search results for “anthropology of religion” in the Public website
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An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines
In this paper, Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga recast new light on the historical tattooing of the “Pintados,” or the the name by which the inhabitants of the Visayas Islands (in the central Philippines) were called by Spanish documenters in the sixteenth century. This is one of their…
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The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…
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About
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) is part of the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).
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Anticipating an unwanted future: euthanasia and dementia in the Netherlands
This ethnographic exploration of anticipation published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropology Institute draws on fieldwork among people with dementia and their families in the Netherlands.
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Egypt. A comparative approach at the crossroads of law, ethnics and religion
Een onderzoek naar de formulering, structuur, rechtshistorische aard en sociale en religieuze achtergronden van Laat-Egyptische (demotische) tempeleden, aangevuld met 70 ongepubliceerde teksten.
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About the programme
To maximise your personal development, we ensure tutorials are small-scale and staff members extremely accessible. In year one, you’ll have an average of 12 contact hours, half of which comprise lectures (in English) and the remainder tutorials (optionally Dutch or English).
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Decolonizing European Anthropology?
As convener for the EASA Network for the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity, Jasmijn Rana organized a two-day symposium on Decolonizing European Anthropology. It brought together anthropologists from different European countries and non-European anthropologists working in and on Europe. Discussions…
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Medical anthropology in Indonesia
A lively discussion on impact and society.
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Medical anthropology in Indonesia
A lively discussion on impact and society
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Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection
Natashe Lemos Dekker addresses the experiences of family members of people with dementia as they expressed their sense of gradually losing the person with dementia in the article 'Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection' published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychi…
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Tolkien and fiction-based religions
Markus Altena Davidsen’s PhD dissertation is the first major study of Tolkien Religion. In it, he analyses the religion that is based on the stories by acclaimed British fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien. He also discusses how fiction itself can become religious. Davidsen will defend his dissertation on…
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The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?
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Adam Buben
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.j.buben@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
a.j.w.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
k.n.paramore@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Legal community determined to get rid of religious accommodation
There is a crisis in the law concerning the accommodation of religious practice. The legal profession is demanding that the law be changed because it does not want religious institutions to have the 'right to discriminate'. The profession holds that evolving societal sexual norms can render lawful religious…
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Anthropology of health and care in Indonesia
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Mission
Area studies is an approach to knowledge that starts from the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present, through the relevant source languages, with central regard for issues of positionality.
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Education
Religious Studies at Leiden University allows you to study a broad spectrum of religions and their manifestations.
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Sincerely believing in freedom
On 30 November, Florian Theissen defended the thesis 'Sincerely believing in freedom: a reconstruction and comparison of the interpretation of the freedom of religion and belief on the Canadian Supreme Court, the South African Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights'. The doctoral…
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Women at the Cutting Edge. Assessing the gendered impacts of industrial logging on well-being in Solomon Islands
How do women and men living in logging concessions in Solomon Islands experience the impacts of logging during and after logging operations? This project assesses how and why industrial logging affects men and women differently. Using insights from an ethnographic case-study of the logging industry…
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The Influence of Fichte’s Theory of Self-consciousness on Kierkegaard's Notion of the Self
The central subject of this dissertation is the influence of Fichte’s theory of self-consciousness on Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical notion of the self in the way Kierkegaard describes the self in his philosophy in the writing 'The Sickness unto Death' (1849). The main question this dissertation…
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Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures
Religions involve belief in the unbelievable: in evil spirits causing disease, in souls surviving death, and in gods punishing wrongdoers and blessing the just. Cognitive studies suggest that humans are predisposed to speculate about fate and divine agency, but support from so-called ‘plausibility structures’…
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
s.l.gallois@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6086
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Anthropology of Asia at Leiden Update
Conference, Network event
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.f.laborie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3546
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Get to know Religious Studies
Religion permeates our world and remains highly influential across all domains of human society, including politics, culture, and economics. Religion also plays a critical role in everyday life as it provides meaning, motivation, and social support for billions of people. The master Religious Studies…
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Get to know Religious Studies
Religion permeates our world and remains highly influential across all domains of human society, including politics, culture, and economics. Religion also plays a critical role in everyday life as it provides meaning, motivation, and social support for billions of people. The master Religious Studies…
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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Outreach
LUCSoR faculty work closely together with societal partners on issues related to religious education and religion in society.
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Florian Theissen successfully defends his PhD thesis
On 30 November 2023, Florian Theissen successfully defended his PhD thesis, 'Sincerely Believing in Freedom'.
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Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
On young Muslims seeking to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
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Thijs Jan van Schie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.j.van.schie@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Rosalinde Spitters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.j.b.spitters@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3850
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Janine Prins
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.prins@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Soukaina Chakkour
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.chakkour@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Marijke van Kester
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
m.j.j.van.kester@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3626
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Raymond Corbey
Faculteit Archeologie
r.h.a.corbey@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Narrative and Belief
How do religious narratives persuade their readers to believe their message? And how can it be that some readers even come to treat fantasy and science fiction as authoritative religious texts? These are the core questions treated in Markus Davidsen’s new book Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance…
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Religious Studies students "learn with the city": bridging the gap between religion and society
Three students in Elpine de Boer’s class “Practicing Religious Studies” have been working together on a “Leren met de Stad” (“Learning with the City”) project with community centre Morschwijck, located in Leiden. The students were asked by the organization Incluzio to investigate to which extent cultural…
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Summer School - Medieval Religion (Groningen)
In the summer school 'Medieval Religion' students will be challenged by specialists in the field of medieval religion to position and develop their own research in relevant scholarly and cultural contexts. The instructors will give masterclasses from their own specialties. Deadline for registrations:…
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China: custom anthropological solution for a world power
Global versus local, democracy versus dictatorship, tradition versus modernisation: such contrasts make it difficult for anthropologists. They look in detail at what really happens and can therefore add some nuance to blueprints and debates, is what Frank Pieke, Professor in Modern China Studies, will…
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Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy'
Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects, but according to university lecturer Elpine de Boer, both can make us think about what it means to be human and what we consider to be of value. Together…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Conspiracy thinking as new religion
Is the American government behind the attacks on 11 September 2001? Could it be that the white contrails emitted by planes in the sky are actually ‘chemtrails’: chemicals that are deliberately being spread amongst us? And did the Dutch intelligence service order the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn?…
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