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NWO awards grants to Leiden University Humanities scholars 20 June 2018
No fewer than three Leiden University Humanities scholars have been awarded funding from the NWO’s Free Competition in the Humanities programme: two g...
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Islamic primary schools seeking right balance 12 June 2018
Islamic primary schools contribute to the integration of Muslims in Dutch society, concludes Marietje Beemsterboer in her PhD dissertation. The school...
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Bas van Rijn wins the Cornelis Tiele MA Thesis Award 2018 13 April 2018
The Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) has decided to award the Cornelis Tiele MA Thesis Award 2018 to LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn for ...
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Religious Studies does well in QS Rankings by Subject 08 March 2018
Leiden’s Religious Studies ranks 40th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
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New book: Markus Davidsen publishes book on supernatural fiction used as religious texts 19 January 2018
How do religious narratives persuade their readers to believe their message? And how can it be that some readers even come to treat fantasy and scienc...
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Obituary Meerten ter Borg (1946-2017) 19 January 2018
On the 26th of December 2017, Emeritus Professor Meerten ter Borg passed away. He was 71 years old. Ter Borg passed away at home in the presence of ...
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Online course for diplomats bridges perceptions between Islamic and Western worlds 06 November 2017
Professor Maurits Berger is presenting an online course, starting on 6 November, on the images that Islam and the West hold of one another. The course...
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LUCSoR at the 2017 American Academy of Religion Conference 11 October 2017
LUCSoR will be represented at the upcoming American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference by Dr. Corey Williams (Assistant Professor of Anthropology an...
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LUCIS funding continued from 2018-2020 30 May 2017
We are delighted to announce that the funding of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will be continued from 2018 u...
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Three ERC Advanced Grants for Leiden researchers 04 April 2017
Archaeologist Frans Theuws, Buddhism specialist Jonathan Silk and mathematician Ronald Cramer have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 mill...
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 2017 08 March 2017
History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the be...
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Research Trainee Project on Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures launched 28 February 2017
Religions involve belief in the unbelievable: in evil spirits causing disease, in souls surviving death, and in gods punishing wrongdoers and blessing...
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Launch meeting Leiden Islam Academy: gathering knowledge and meeting people 08 December 2016
The launch meeting of the Leiden Islam Academy on 7 December in the Academy Building drew just the right audience: a diverse group of people who were...
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LUCSoR at the American Academy of Religion conference 15 November 2016
LUCSoR will be represented at the upcoming American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference by Dr. Corey Williams (Assistant Professor) and Sasha Sabbah-...
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Crossing boundaries between religion and psychiatry 27 October 2016
What is the impact of Ramadan on patients with a bipolar disorder? What does it mean to be sensitive to psychiatric patients' religious beliefs? Dris...