Lectures and Courses of External Scholars at the Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Upcoming

Upcoming public lectures and courses will be announced.

Held

  • 2011, 31 October: Konrad Talmont Kaminski (University of Lublin, Polsko), Evolution and the End of Religion.
  • 2011, 10 May: Milan Kováč (Katedra provnávacej religionistiky, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave), Mayské stvorenie sveta v guatemalskom Uaxactúne.
  • 2010, 26 October: Donald Wiebe (University of Toronto, Kanada), The Significance of the Natural Experience of a „Non-Natural“ World to the Question of the Origin of Religion.
  • 2010, Fall semester: Luther H. Martin, visiting professor, courses Christian Origins and Hellenistic Religions.
  • 2010, 5 May: Jana Pomklová, public lecture Sexualita v tradicích hinduismu.
  • 2010, 22 April: Mária Mičaninová (Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košicích), public lecture Kosmologie a motiv výstupu duše k božímu Trůnu v Koruně království Šloma ben Jehudy ibn Gabirola.
  • 2009, Autumn Semester: Lukas Pokorny (Universität Wien, Austria), Introduction to Confucianism.
  • 2009, 5 November: Jesper Sørensen (Aarhus University, Denmark), public lecture Reconceptualizing Magic: Cognitive Representations of Ritual Efficacy.
  • 2009, 23 February: Harvey Whitehouse (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Great Britain), public lecture Why do religions differ?.
  • 2008, 25 March - 25 April: Hans Gerald Hödl (Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Universität Wien, Austria), course West-African Religions.
  • 2008, 19 March - 19 April: Milan Kováč (Department of Comparative Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): course Myths and symbols in Maya religion.
  • 2008, 11 March - 10 April: Paweł Socha (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland), course Personal Religion and Its Place: A Psychological Interpretation.
  • 2008, 2-8 March: Bilal Gökkir (Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey), lecture cycle Islamic studies in Turkey.
  • 2007, 12 November - 12 December: Tatiana Podolinská (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia): course Roma Christianity.
  • 2007, 5-8 November: Gábor Dániel Nagy (Department of Aplied Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, Hungary): course The Role of Faith-Based NGOs in the Production of Religious Social Capital.
  • 2007, 31 August: András Máté-Tóth (Department of Aplied Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, Hungary): lecture Functions of Religion in Eastern-Central Europe at ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions 2007.
  • 2007, 30 August: Tibor Porció (Department of Aplied Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, Hungary): lecture On the Significance of the Sangha in Early Buddhism at ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions 2007.
  • 2007, 29 August: Tatiana Podolinská (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia): lecture “Chocolate Mary” – Virgin Mary as a Medium of Integration and Separation among Roma in Slovakia at ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions 2007.
  • 2007, 28 August: Attila Kovács (Department of Comparative Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): lecture Three Makers of Contemporary Islam in Europe: Azzam at-Tamini, Tariq Ramadan and Harun Yahya at ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions 2007.
  • 2007, 24 August: Dénes Kiss (Department of Sociology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania): lecture Pentecostalism in Post-Communist Romania at ERASMUS Summer Intensive Programme in the Study of Religions 2007.
  • 2006, 14 November: Tatiana Podolinská (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia): public lecture Roma Christianity.
  • 2006, 7-16 November: Maimul Khan: course Islam and Human Rights.
  • 2006, 19 October: Luther H. Martin (Department of Religion, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA): public lecture The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective.
  • 2006, 16-20 October: Luther H. Martin (Department of Religion, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA): course Cognitive Science of Religion.
  • 2006, Fall Semester: Milan Kováč (Department of Comparative Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): course Continuity and Discontinuity in Maya Religion.
  • 2006, Spring Semester: Hans Gerald Hoedl (Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria): course Afro-American Religions.
  • 2006, Spring Semester: Miloš Hubina (Department of Comparative Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): course Meditation in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition.
  • 2005, Spring Semester: Helmut Tauscher (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria): course Tibetan Buddhism.
  • 2004, 15 November: András Máté-Tóth (Department of Aplied Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, Hungary): public lecture Media Image of Religion and Churches in Hungary: 1990-2002.
  • 2003, 1 April: Henryk Zimoń (Catholic University Lublin, Poland): public lecture Konkomba Sacredness of the Earth in North Ghana.
  • 2003, 17 March: Milan Kováč (Department of Comparative Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): public lecture Spiritual Life of the Slovak Roma.
  • 2000, 29 November: Milan Kováč (Department of Ethnology and Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): public lecture Gods of the Last Maya.
  • 2000, 29 March: Martin Kanovský (Department of Ethnology and Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia): public lecture An Outline of the Cognitive Theory of Religion.
  • 2000, 8 March: Luther H. Martin (Department of Religion, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA): public lecture From Kinship to Kingdom: Helenistic Consolidation of the Religious and Political Power.
  • 1998, 20 April: Karel Werner (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London): public lecture Character and Message of the Lotus Sutra: Commencement of Mahayana Buddhism.
  • 1997, 12 May: Jacques Waardenburg: public lecture The Emergence of Science of Religion: Explanatory Theory and Hermeneutics.