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Playing at Religion: Encoding/decoding religion in videogames KU Leuven

Stef Aupers
Institute for Media Studies

Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. This dissertation departs from observations by enthusiastic theologians who find religion everywhere in videogames – the largest cultural industry in the world. However, if religions are beliefs in supernatural substances given meaning to, culturally, through objects and social functions; then what is ...

Naturalizing religion: in Search of Hume's Heritage for Contemporary Cognitive Science of Religion. University of Antwerp

Willem Lemmens
Center for Ethics
David Hume (1711-1776) was fascinated by religion and considered it to be a universal feature of the human condition and civilization. In this project we investigate the relevance of Hume's naturalistic-historical explanation of the origins of religion for contemporary Cognitive Science of Religion. We defend that Hume had a keen eye for the historical and praxeological foundations of religious belief. Our hypothesis is that contemporary CSR ...

Irreligion and common illusions in Hume's moral Enquiry and the Natural History of Religion. University of Antwerp

Willem Lemmens
Center for Ethics
Against the traditional lines of interpretation highlighting the naturalistic and skeptical aspects of Hume's work, recent literature has offered an alternative focus for reading the Treatise on Human Nature and the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (EHU) as an attempt to show that religious beliefs are deprived of epistemic and moral authority. Less attention has been paid from this angle to Hume's position in his Enquiry concerning the ...

Chinese Philosophy and its Religious Minorities: ethnicity, religion, and national identity in modern Chinese thought and the discipline of "ethnic minority philosophies" Ghent University

Bart Dessein
Department of Languages and Cultures

This project seeks to rethink the history of modern Chinese thought by providing the first ever study of the academic discipline of U+201Cethnic minority philosophiesU+201D in the PeopleU+2019s Republic of China. It will focus on the much neglected relation between the imported categories of U+201CphilosophyU+201D and U+201CreligionU+201D and conceptions of ethnicity in twentieth-century and contemporary Chinese thought. The field of ethnic ...

Religion in no man’s land: An interdisciplinary research into the role of religious leaders in peacebuilding processes, the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina KU Leuven

Lieven Boeve
Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions, Leuven Institute of Criminology

This project proposes an analysis of the role played by religion and religious leaders in the processes of conflict transformation, with a special focus on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Religion is frequently criticized as one of the principal sources of violent conflicts. However, recent studies on transitional justice and conflict resolution emphasize the importance of religion for achieving and maintaining peace. This project ...

Religious concepts as structured imagination. A cognition, religion and theology project. KU Leuven

Helen De Cruz
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
This research was funded by the Cognition, religion and theology project organized by the University of Oxford and supported by the john Templeton Foundation. The aim of that project is to foster empirical investigation and philosophical refleciton on the cognitive science of religion and theology. My research will examine the role of structured creativity in the emergence of religious concepts, using an open questionnaire study. Next to this, I ...

Inscribing Religion: Writing, Records and Religious Knowledge in Ancient Greece Ghent University

Lieve Van Hoof
Department of History

This project examines the role of written records in the construction of religious knowledge in ancient Greece. Traditionally, Greek religion has been understood as an action-orientated religion based on oral tradition, in which writing was only of significance in so-called U+2018marginalU+2019 and U+2018magicalU+2019 practices like Orphism and curse-writing. This project challenges such a portrayal by uncovering the varied spaces and ...

Interrogating Islamic Roads to Conviviality: Ethical and Religious Practices of Tolerance in Relation to Identity among Muslim Minorities in Belgium Ghent University

Chia Longman
Department of Languages and Cultures

This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium living in the cities of Brussels, Antwerp and Liège. It examines the modalities in which Islamic frames of reference and ethical sensibilities are mobilized by individuals when striving for harmonious convivial living together across religious difference. First, the project compares ...

Towards a blueprint for successful collaborative writing and revision in higher education: the interplay of instruction, interaction and writing processes and  task complexity and their relation to text quality. KU Leuven

Elke Van Steendam
Language, Education and Society, Brussels Campus
In education, collaborative writing has shown its advantages both for language and content learning. When writers collaborate to write a text, they can pool resources, offer each other assistance and observe each others learning and writing processes, which may translate in more effective writing processes and in better texts. For collaborative writing to have a positive outcome, a few conditions need to be met. Crucial for peer collaboration in ...