Project information
Generativní historiografie antického Středomoří: Modelování a simulace dynamiky šíření náboženských představ a forem chování
(GEHIR)
- Project Identification
- MUNI/M/1867/2014
- Project Period
- 3/2015 - 12/2017
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Masaryk University
- Grant Agency of Masaryk University
- INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Arts
- doc. Mgr. Aleš Chalupa, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Tomáš Glomb, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Tomáš Hampejs, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Vojtěch Kaše, Ph.D.
- PhDr. Dalibor Papoušek, Ph.D.
- Other MU Faculty/Unit
- Faculty of Science
- Other MU Faculty/Unit
- Faculty of Informatics
- Keywords
- ancient Mediterranean, Roman Empire, Isiac cults, Mithraism, early Christianities, mod-elling and simulation, mathematical modelling, network theory, dynamical systems, cog-nitive historiography, digital humanities, diffusion of innovations, cliodynamics,
This project systematically applies selected methods of formalized modeling and com-putational simulations to the study of the diffusion dynamics of religious ideas and forms of behavior. As such, the project strives to integrate a specific methodological framework into the academic study of religion. On the one hand, this framework may open up new avenues in the systematic study of specific instances of historical change, on the other, it may contribute to the study of more general questions related to the factors which influence the dynamics of cultural systems.
This project is centred around four case studies which focus on selected religious tradi-tions of the ancient Mediterranean (Isiac cults, Mithraism, Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianities), which can be, despite their historical specificity, viewed through the same theoretical-methodological optics, i.e. through the processes of (1) the dissemina-tion of religious ideas and forms of behaviour at the population level, (2), taking place over long periods of time, (3) being studied on the basis of fragmentary sources, (4) being viewed from the theoretical concept of the diffusion of innovations, (5) and being subjected to the influence of specific environmental, social and cognitive factors. These four case studies were selected on the basis of their similarity as well as their complementary specificities. In this sense, the project aims at the foundation of a “methodological laboratory” whose probes might facilitate the work of other researchers, as it com-bines historiography with methods of formalized modelling.
Within the study of historical processes formalized modelling is conceptualised as an innovative third way through which the limitations of the traditional inductive analysis of historical sources and deductive application of social-scientific and cognitive theories to social and historical phenomena can be overcome. Computational modelling can be viewed as a form of theoretical experimen
Publications
Total number of publications: 49
2017
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The role of texts in the stabilization of pan-Mediterranean religious networks: A case study in geospatial computational modeling of ancient religious history
Year: 2017, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Turing-like phenomenon on a discrete space-time
Year: 2017, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Uncovering the Secret of Christian Success in Terms of Spatial Network Analysis: Introducing the GEHIR project
Year: 2017, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
2016
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Agent-Based Modelling And Simulation For The Geospatial Network Model Of The Roman World
International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2016, year: 2016
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Attracting the Gods: How to Model the Spread of the Egyptian Cults in the Ancient Mediterranean
Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Between Luke and Marcion: Hypothesis Testing in the History of Christian Origins
Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Between Luke and Marcion: Mathematical Model in the History of Christian Origins
Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Centralized and Decentralized Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: Mathematical Modeling of the Lukan and Marcionite Christianities
Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Ekklesiologiaa, kristologiaa ja magiaa: Paavalin ehtoollistradition kognitiiven uudelleenarviointi
Raamattu ja magia, year: 2016, number of pages: 27 s.
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Epidemiology of the Egyptian Cults During the Hellenistic Period: Can You Spread it too?
Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings