Noah Millman defended his thesis on 26 May 2015

Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals…

This research programme encourages the analysis of nascent Islam within the framework of religious studies.

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In recent decades, the Netherlands’ struggle with multiculturalism has caused an upsurge in public interest in the relationship between state and religion. In this, the Dutch address a subject relevant not just to them, but to all of Europe.

Time, Religion and Sacred Discourses of the Ayuuk People

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Ms. Anaïs Massot defended her thesis on 26 January 2021

On 27 June 2019, Barry Bussey defended his thesis 'The Legal Revolution Against the Accommodation of Religion: The Secular Age v. The Sexular Age'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. P.B. Cliteur.

A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the subject of Marieke Kroneman's dissertation. Defence on 15 September.

On 12 January 2023 ms. Nor Ismah successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Steven Frost defended his thesis on 6 June 2017

This special issue of Contemporary Levant critically explores, at a micro and macro level, the structural role and religious, cultural and political interactions of the Greek-Orthodox, Melkite and Syriac communities in late Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine.

On February 20th, Gulnaz Sibgatullina succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Gulnaz on this great result.

At Leiden University you can study Islam and Muslim societies within two Dutch-language BA and various MA programmes and specializations.

LUCSoR has chairs in Comparative Religion, Islam in the West, Christianity, and Judaism. Main areas of expertise include ancient Mesopotamian religions, the Enlightenment, Islam in the West, and new spiritual movements.

Aspects of Religious Leadership in Europe, 1100-2000

How does the religious identity of islamic primary schools in the Netherlands relate to the social demands?

A technique originally developed for satellite imaging can now be used to recover pictographic texts from underneath the surface of a five hundred year old Mexican manuscript.

LIAS is comprised of three research schools with expertise in different areas:

LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.

Perspectives on Terrorism 2016

Markus Davidsen, assistant professor of Religious Studies, is the winner of the 2021 Impact Prize. He is receiving the prize of 1,000 euros for the material he has developed for religious education in secondary schools.

The Modern Devotion: pone of the most influential religious initiatives in the late medieval Low Countries.

Mr. S. Al Daghistani defended his thesis on 30 November 2017

This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world history.

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.

Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Volume 87 in the series Religion and Society

Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a major multidisciplinary research project which aims to re-vision the history of Asia in one of its most significant periods. The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and…

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This study focuses on increasing our understanding of the different pathways converts take during conversion to Islam.

The Secular Outlook describes what moral and political secularism means. It paints the image of a world view in which state and religion are kept well separated.

This initiative is intended to support generative research collaborations between and among scholars located in different geographical regions who wish to pursue focused, joint projects in any area of the study of religion.

Jews and Christians in the Middle East

Ragazzi, ‘Suspect community or suspect category?‘, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Thalia Hoffman is a visual artist and researcher working in film, video, performance, and public interventions in the area she lives in, east of the Mediterranean. In 2020 she graduated from the Leiden University PhDArts programme, with the thesis Guava, a conceptual platform for art-actions.

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Mattias Brand defended his thesis on 10 April 2019

How did the invention and implementation of the lightning rod change the perception of thunderstorms on a scientific, technical, religious and artistic level, in the Netherlands and beyond, during the period 1752-1830?

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Effects of age and social anxiety

On 27 November 2019, David de Boer defended his PhD dissertation 'Religious Persecution and Transnational Compassion in the Dutch Vernacular Press 1655-1745'. For his research, he analysed several hundred pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals published primarily in the seventeenth-century Netherlands,…

The aim of the project is to understand the process of formation of Bon religious identity in Tibet at the turn of the first millennium AD.

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Emphasizing on the key role of polysemy in forming the lexicon is the main goal to be achieved in this dissertation paper. The paper suggests a qualitative evaluation of polysemy in comparing it with other relations that form the lexicon. The research confirms that the polysemic links must not be modeled…

Carina van den Hoven defended her thesis on 16 February 2017.

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh