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Call for papers: Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today06 April 2016Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016
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Why Leiden’s first Professor of Theology was banned31 March 2016The Reformed Church removed preacher Caspar Coolhaes - Leiden’s first Professor of Theology – from office because of his advocacy of tolerance. PhD c...
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HERA grant awarded to Léon Buskens and international colleagues17 March 2016Together with internationally esteemed colleagues, Léon Buskens has been awarded a HERA Joint Research Programme Grant for a research project entitled...
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Markus Altena Davidsen wins the Gerardus van der Leeuw Dissertation Award 201604 January 2016Markus Altena Davidsen, university lecturer in the sociology of religion at LUCSoR, has been awarded the Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award...
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Call for papers: Arabic and its Alternatives15 December 2015Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920–1950)
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Support for doctoral research on the history of Zoroastrianism10 December 2015Last year, LUCSoR welcomed two new Ph.D. students from Iran: Kiyan Foroutan from Ahvaz and Amir Ardalan Emami from Tehran. Kiyan works on a project on...
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Iain Gardner (Sydney) visiting scholar in Leiden28 September 2015
Prof. dr. Iain Gardner (University of Sydney) will be a visiting scholar at Leiden University Centre for the study of Religion (LUCSoR) in September-N...
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New colleague: Corey Williams09 December 2014
It gives us great pleasure to report that the search for a University Lecturer in Christianity in the Modern World has resulted in the appointment of ...
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Tolkien and fiction-based religions14 October 2014
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 b...
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Donation of microfilms gives new access to Syrian manuscripts12 October 2013
Due to the unrest in the Middle East, many ancient Syrian manuscripts are no longer available or have even been destroyed. Professor of Old Testament ...
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In search of missing link in Islamic and European history15 August 2013
In the period between the First and the Second World War, many Muslim intellectuals came to Europe. What impact did they have on each other’s, as well...