Religio

22/12/2025

Ať už slavíte Yule, Vánoce či Chanuku, redakce časopisu Religio vám přeje klidně strávený sváteční čas! 🌠
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Whether you celebrate Yule, Christmas, or Hanukkah, the editors of Religio magazine wish you a peaceful holiday season! 🌠

18/12/2025

We are delighted to announce that the 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR) will be held at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, from July 1st-3rd 2026.

We will be offering an excellent line-up of keynote speakers, events, John McGraw awards for excellent proposals by student/early career researchers and travel support thanks to a generous funding obtained from the IAHR (International Association for the History of Religions).

Call for proposals:

The Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion is an interdisciplinary research area. We therefore encourage empirical and theoretical papers representing state-of-the-art research on religion, evolution, and cognition from all areas of the humanities, social, and natural sciences.

The call for paper and panel proposals is now open. All proposals will be submitted through Microsoft CMT. Note that while the CMT system may ask you for an ID such as ORCID or Google Scholar, these are not necessary to make a submission.

Please submit your talk abstracts here: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FIACESR2026

The call for both individual presentations and panel proposals will close February 6th, 2026. The individual presentations include individual talks and posters.
Panel abstracts can be up to 500 words while individual abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 28th, 2026.

John McGraw Graduate Student/Early Career Award:

This award recognises outstanding work by early career researchers. Eligibility includes current students and researchers within five years of obtaining their PhD. Awardees will be selected based on the quality of their submitted abstract; to receive the award, recipients must present their work at the conference. Awardees will be given a featured presentation slot in the programme.

Travel support for Students / Early Career Researchers:

Thanks to the support obtained from the IAHR (International Association for the History of Religions), the IACESR will be offering a limited number of scholarships to offset travel costs for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars (within 5 years of PhD). A short justification should be provided when applying for this scholarship (maximum length 200 words).

More details to follow. Information about registration will be available on our website in early 2026: https://iacesr.com/conferences/

We hope to see you in Brno next year!

15/12/2025

⏰Call for Papers⏰

Fourth World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation

📆 22 - 26 June 2026
🇲🇰 Skopje, North Macedonia

Submit: http://icrd.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/ until April 15, 2026

Conference note in Religio: https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/38672

02/12/2025

🧙‍♂️ Jak velké jsou komunity, které dnes v Česku slovanské pohanství praktikují?

🧩 Jaké nejčastější stereotypy o Slovanech a slovanském pohanství přetrvávají v české společnosti a populární kultuře?

🎬 Jak se tyto stereotypy projevují ve filmech, komiksech či počítačových hrách?

✝️ Jaký je vztah moderního slovanského pohanství ke křesťanské tradici?

🎙️ Poslechněte si Hergot! na Český rozhlas o slovanském pohanství s religionisty Jiřím Dyndou (Slovanský ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.) a Pavlem Horákem (Etnologický ústav AV ČR).

Odkaz v komentářích.

27/11/2025

🥶🥶Due to the freezing weather outside, we would rather warmly invite you to the new Online First read in Religio:

Jana Valtrová, Andrea Štěpánková and Jakub Cigán, Labels and Identities. Classification of the Moravian Anabaptists in Sources from the 16th and 17th Centuries
https://journals.phil.muni.cz/religio/article/view/41631

26/11/2025

Call for Papers in Religio
"Consecrated Life" 🙏

EXTENDED DEADLINE ‼️
until March 15, 2026

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 🇺🇸

Doktorandi, POZOR!
Chcete na výzkum do USA v příštím akademickém roce?

Přemýšlíte, jak dostat svůj doktorský výzkum na mezinárodní úroveň? Fulbrightova komise nabízí plně financované výzkumné pobyty v USA pro studenty doktorských programů!

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

https://cefres.cz/en/events/job-offer-general-secretary/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet
Start date: 1/12/2025

CEFRES is … A French public research institute with partners across Central Europe An international administrative and research team (11 nationalities as of 2025) at the forefront of research in social sciences and humanities Around 20 full-time researchers and 15 associated researchers Around 20 ...