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NWO grant for four humanities projects 18 May 2021
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their c...
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Fatiha Azzarhouni: ‘Even during Covid, Ramadan is about fasting' 12 May 2021
Mosques with limited opening hours, fewer family visits and fewer events: for the second time, Ramadan was different due to Covid. Islamologist and de...
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KNAW subsidy for the project ‘Religious studies in secondary education' 12 May 2021
Markus Altena Davidsen and colleagues Michaël van der Meer, Maurits Berger and Kim Beerden received a subsidy from the KNAW-Pilotfund. They will use t...
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Dr. Mattias Brand receives the Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award 19 April 2021
This March, LUCSoR alumnus Dr. Mattias Brand received the Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award from the Dutch Association for the Study of Re...
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Are you interested in Morocco? Take a minor in Rabat! 25 March 2021
Students interested in the study of Morocco can enroll in English-taught minor ‘Culture and Society in Morocco’, starting in September at the NIMAR in...
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Leiden’s BA Religious Studies programme ranked #1 in The Netherlands 24 March 2021
The BA Religious Studies programme has been awarded the label 'Topopleiding' (Top Education) in the Keuzegids 2021.
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LUCSoR student perspectives on the Jewish Experience, in podcast form 15 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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Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’ 19 January 2021
Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with eff...
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Theme Issue on Markus Davidsen’s Vision for the Study of Religion 23 September 2020
The 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 2020
Maurits 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 Williams 20 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 Corpus 14 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 Humanities 27 November 2019
Four bachelor courses are rewarded as Top courses.
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Coco van Beveren and Frits Brouwer win the LUCSoR thesis price 2019 07 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 Indonesia 16 September 2019
In 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 ...