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LUCSoR student perspectives on the Jewish Experience, in podcast form15 March 2021
In her “Jews and Judaism” lecture class in Fall 2020, Dr. Sarah Cramsey’s students produced 7-minute long podcasts instead of final papers.
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Theme Issue on Markus Davidsen’s Vision for the Study of Religion23 September 2020The latest issue of NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion debates dr. Markus Altena Davidsen’s vision for the future of religious studies...
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’03 July 2020Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in ...
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Collaborative International Research Grant for dr. Corey Williams20 January 2020
Dr. Corey Williams (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Christianity) has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the Am...
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Conference Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi hadith Corpus14 January 2020
From 24-26 June 2020, the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (I...
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Four top courses for Humanities27 November 2019Four bachelor courses are rewarded as Top courses.
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Coco van Beveren and Frits Brouwer win the LUCSoR thesis price 201907 October 2019
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religiewetenschap (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two thesis prices each...
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How radical Islam gained a foothold in Indonesia16 September 2019In recent decades, a more radical Islam has been on the rise in Indonesia, but the government now promotes a moderate form of Islam. In his inaugural ...
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Theological pamphlets reveal passionate religious debate09 September 2019They might not have had Twitter, but they did have brochures (pamphlets), the Roman Catholics and ‘modern’ Protestants between 1840 and 1870. In these...
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Course helps primary-school teachers with Islam-related dilemmas22 July 2019Primary-school teachers who aren’t Muslim themselves but do have Muslim children in their class sometimes face dilemmas and cultural or religious diff...
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Fatiha Azzarhouni: ‘Delving deeply into something suits me’20 June 2019She began as an IT professional but after 7 years in the business world, she devoted herself to an entirely different field: Islamic Theology. As co-f...
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KU Leuven joins NISIS partnership19 December 2018We are very pleased to announce that KU Leuven joins the partnership of the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS). KU Leuven ...
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NISIS moves to Utrecht University04 December 2018At 1 January 2019 NISIS will move from Leiden University to Utrecht University. Dutch research schools have to change host universities after a certai...
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World29 November 2018Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle ...
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Bachelor Religious Studies top program according to 'Keuzegids Universiteiten 2019'23 November 2018The bachelor program Religious Studies has, besides also Linguistics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, been awarded by the 'Keuzevakkengids Universite...