99 search results for “religious conversion” in the Library website
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Religious Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in religious studies.
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Judith FrishmanFaculty of Humanities
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Kiyan ForoutanFaculty of Humanities
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Arie van der KooijFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BaarFaculty of Humanities
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Ernestine van der WallFaculty of Humanities
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I-Fan LinScience
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Elly MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Elpine de BoerFaculty of Humanities
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Eric JorinkFaculty of Humanities
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Theological pamphlets reveal passionate religious debate
They might not have had Twitter, but they did have brochures (pamphlets), the Roman Catholics and ‘modern’ Protestants between 1840 and 1870. In these, they launched a passionate attack on each other’s ideas. Ineke Smit has catalogued the brochures from the collection of the University Library and outlined…
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Hans-Martien ten NapelFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Yumeng WangScience
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Jörg MeyerScience
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Mert YazanScience
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Markus DavidsenFaculty of Humanities
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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May Shaddel BasirFaculty of Humanities
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Radhika GuptaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maarten JansenFaculteit Archeologie
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Jan AbbinkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Subject Librarians and Medical Information Specialists
UBL has assigned a Subject Librarian or Medical Information Specialist to each department and program who provides in-depth assistance for researchers and teachers
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Symposium on the future of AI and academic publishing
Symposium
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Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.
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Classics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Classics
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Art & Art History
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Art & Art History
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Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy
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Symposium The ‘Holy Land’ and Modernity: the Frank Scholten Collection in Context
Leiden University Libraries (UBL), the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) and the Nederlands Fotogenootschap would like to invite you for the symposium ‘Holy Land’ and Modernity: the Frank Scholten Collection in Context’ and hands-on viewing of Frank Scholten photographs and albums on Monday…
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Uploading student theses
The Student Repository is part of Scholarly Publications Leiden University and offers an online archive that makes Bachelor and Master theses easily searchable and publicly available.
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An inspiring study environment
Welcome to Leiden University Libraries (UBL).
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Online Exhibition - Grotius, a Life Between Freedom and Oppression
In 2021, it is exactly 400 years since Hugo Grotius mounted his daring escape from Loevestein Castle, hidden in his book chest. Although his escape is a widely known event, especially in the Netherlands, the man behind the story and the reasons behind his imprisonment are often overlooked. In this small…
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South Asian and Tibetan Special Collections
The South Asian and Tibetan special collections provide material pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, art and material cultures of the region. The focus lies on Sanskrit, Tibetan, Lepcha, and Buddhism, but the collections also hold rich visual material for educational and academic purposes…
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Exhibitions
Library exhibitions, both online and physical, give an idea of the breadth of our collections.
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Drewes Fellowship
The G.W.J. Drewes Fund was invoked to celebrate the transfer of the scholarly legacy of Professor Drewes to the UBL and to mark the opening of the Asia Library in the University Library at the Witte Singel. The fund provides financial support to one or more fellowships at the Scaliger Institute. The…
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Chinese Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Chinese Studies
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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'First Americans': exhibition on turbulent past and present of native Americans
The First Americans exhibition in the National Museum of Ethnology showcases the resilience and creativity of native Americans. Striking artworks, fashion and prints show that the past is never far away. Artist Jacob Meders was inspired by 16th-century prints from the Leiden University Library. The…
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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ChatGPT: What is possible and what is allowed?
At the moment a lot of discussion surrounds ChatGPT, an advanced chatbot which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI). ChatGPT is based on a Large Language Model (LLM) and has been trained using an enormous amount of text, providing it with knowledge of grammar, semantics and contextual nuances. The program…
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Study areas
The libraries offer over 2300 study places. Some are freely available, some are available to Leiden University students only.
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Honorary doctorate for Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Beatrice Gründler, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, will receive an honorary doctorate in Oriental Manuscript Studies from Leiden University.
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Pilgrims came to Leiden for ‘brain training’
The Pilgrims to America exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal inspires reflection. How far do you go in the quest for freedom? It focuses on the Pilgrims’ relationship with the University and which knowledge they took with them from Leiden.