402 search results for “everyday religion” in the Staff website
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Yasmin Ismail
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Elmer Veldkamp
Faculty of Humanities
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The thousand war-battalions of the btsan: everyday demons in Ladakh
Lecture
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Religion and Fantasy (12th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Streaming Piety: Religion in Turkish Television Drama
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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…
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Mattias Brand awarded Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Award 2021
Mattias Brand’s dissertation, The Manichaeans of Kellis: Religion, Community, and Everyday Life (Leiden, 2019) has been selected for one of the five prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Awards 2021.
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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Markus Davidsen wins 2021 Impact Prize
Markus Davidsen, assistant professor of Religious Studies, is the winner of the 2021 Impact Prize. He is receiving the prize of 1,000 euros for the material he has developed for religious education in secondary schools.
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Bastiaan Rijpkema appointed Professor by special appointment of Tolerance
Bastiaan Rijpkema has been appointed Professor by special appointment of the new chair Tolerance at the Faculty of Humanities with effect from 1 July 2021. The chair was established by Stichting Leerstoel Uytenbogaert.
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Re-materialising Roman religion: Keynote lecture from Dr. Graham
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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Leiden Law Cast: reverend Ruben Van Zwieten
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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Secular Law, Christian Ambivalence, and Jewish Difference
VVI Research Talks
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Book presentation: 'Coping with Versnel: A Roundtable on Religion and Magic'
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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Mental health
The most common problem areas PhD students face are listed below, as well as how one can begin to fix these problems.
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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When religion did not(?) matter in the Balkans: confessionalization in early modern Southeastern Europe
Lecture
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Veni grant for research on ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy
University lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy Jingjing Li has been awarded a Veni grant for her research on feminist theories within the Buddhist philosophy of consciousness-only. Jingjing Li explains her plans and the importance of her research.
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Defaming the Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Historical and Conceptual Analysis of the United Nations
PhD defence
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Nathal Dessing
Faculty of Humanities
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Mayke Kaag
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Painting with Acrylics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Listening to the Un-speakable as Decolonial Praxis
Lecture
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Crisis: An ethnography on agricultural insurance, rural distress and the everyday moralities of quantification in India
PhD defence
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: One Among Zeroes: AI, Islam and what computational analysis can teach us about religious futures
Lecture
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Bart Barendregt receives Vici grant for research on Artificial Intelligence in Muslim Southeast Asia
Bart Barendregt receives a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros from the NWO for his research project 'One between the Zeros, an Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence in Islam'.
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Unacceptable behaviour
The workplace should be completely free from unacceptable behaviour, such as bullying, sexual harassment, intimidation, discrimination and violence. If you experience or witness unacceptable behaviour, it can be difficult to talk about it. Yet it’s very important that you report it to one of the confidential…
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Should rivers and seas have rights?
Lecture, Public Ethics Talks
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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Mental fitness
Fitness is more than physical health alone. An equally important aspect is mental fitness. Mental fitness refers to fitness of the mind. Situations may arise at work that may lead to you feeling less strong. What you can do about them?
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Psychology Connected: Academic Entrepreneurship
Conference
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Book presentation: Coping with Versnel
At a festive book presentation on the 21st of July Prof. em. Henk Versnel received a copy of the volume Coping with Versnel. This historiographical volume highlights the important position of Versnel’s work in the study of religion in the ancient world.
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Personal data: privacy and the GDPR
As an employee of Leiden University, you probably work with or come into contact with personal data. The concept of ‘personal data’ is core to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you work with personal data, you must be able to explain clearly, comprehensively and in simple language how…
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Training opportunities
We want to facilitate teacher development in the area of diversity and inclusion by offering specialized training opportunities.
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In memoriam: Carla Risseeuw, Professor emerita of CADS (1947 - 2024)
It is with great sadness that we share the news that on Friday, May 3rd 2024, Carla Risseeuw, Professor emerita of CADS, passed away. Carla Irene Risseeuw retired as Professor of Intercultural Gender Studies from CADS in 2009 after a long and productive career.
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Hans-Martien ten Napel on Tocqueville and modern democracy
Recently, Hans-Martien ten Napel was in the news on the above subject several times.
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Numbers are not an exact representation of an objective reality
Tim van de Meerendonk explores how farmers, insurance advisors and local politicians in India try to make sense of insurance figures through their moral convictions.
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair
Welcome to 2024! I hope this message finds you doing well and reenergised following the holiday season. With that said, I can imagine that many of us are not quite ready to be back in the classroom (either as a student or a lecturer)! The good news is that we have plenty of activities to jump start…
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Peter van der Putten on Robo Rabbi and a robot that performs funeral rituals
Can a robot rekindle the waning interest in Buddhism in Japan? University lecturer Peter van der Putten researches the philosophical and social questions related to artificial intelligence. He also investigates whether computers and robots can take over creativity, emotions and other human characteristics.…
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project
Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this interview, he will tell more about the content of his project and its aims.
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Exhibition on art, culture and architecture along the Silk Road
Ornately decorated head pieces and jewellery, images of imposing mosques and photos of local people. The 'Splendours of the Silk Roads' exhibition depicts life and different cultures along this important trade route.
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Racism: a daily reality
March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We spoke to Leiden University’s Diversity Officer, Aya Ezawa, and asked her how we can combat racism and discrimination.
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Want to know more about AI in education?
Education, ICT
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KNAW subsidy for the project ‘Religious studies in secondary education'
Markus Altena Davidsen and colleagues Michaël van der Meer, Maurits Berger and Kim Beerden received a subsidy from the KNAW-Pilotfund. They will use the 10.000 € for an inspiration book for teachers religion/worldview.
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Lara Offermans and Marijn Bethlehem win the LUCSoR thesis prizes (2019-2021)
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two thesis prizes each year, one for the best bachelor thesis and one for the best master thesis.