The Research Unit Religion, Cognition and Culture invites everyone with an interest for religion and cognition to our weekly lunch meetings every Thursday at 12 noon - 1 pm at Jens Chr. Skous Vej 3, building 1451, room 515. At the meetings international guest researchers, employees and students present their research in an open and entertaining way. Among other things, the subjects of this semester will cover mysterious experiences, miracle healings, magic and superstition, rituals, norms and traditions.
Date | Guest researcher | Subject |
12 Sep. | John Shaver | Explaining the distribution of supernatural beliefs and their relationship to ritual behavior in a Fijan village |
19 Sep. | Jesper Sørensen | Why your neighbor feels more religious than yourself |
26 Sep. | Heidi Frølund Pedersen | Religious coping in cancer patients |
3 Oct. | Ella Paldarm | Insights from 900 cases of healing miracles |
10 Oct. | Lars-Kristian Kratmann | Coping, depletion and morality: An analysis of the ritual handbook used by the 9/11 hijackers |
17 Oct. | No meeting |
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24 Oct. | Pascal Boyer | To be announced |
31 Oct. | Jens Kjær Jensen | In Fear of the Secular: The Victorian Grotesque |
7 Nov. | Peter Turchin | Religion and Equality in History |
14 Nov. | Sabela Fondevilla | The pope effect on religious perception |
21 Nov. | Michael van Elk | To be announced (pending) |
28 Nov. | Uffe Schjødt | Depletion and deprivation in religious interactions |
