The DRH was just reviewed in the Journal of American History: academic.oup.com/jah/article/...

The review looks at range of aspects of the DRH including its design, audience, and data. We're excited to see the DRH get wider attention and thankful for the hard work of the reviewer, Dr. Jeri Wieringa

Please consider contributing an entry or using this poll as a tool for cross-cultural research. All DRH data is grounded in space and time and tagged with language, religious tradition and other data, enabling large-scale analysis in a way that was never before possible.

This poll came out of a workshop at the Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social co-organized by Edward Slingerland (@slingerland.bsky.social) and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (@musicntwrk.bsky.social), with input from experts from a wide variety of fields.

The DRH is excited to announce the release of our new Religious Ritual poll (religiondatabase.org/landing/poll...). Experts can now submit entries on specific rituals, with detailed questions about every aspect of timing, participants, practices and purposes.

We have just published our second release of our Standard Cross Cultural Sample of Religion (SCCSR)! This version adds language tags which can be use to help control for historical relatedness (in addition to a lot more data). Check out the release on Zenodo here: zenodo.org/records/1496...

The Database of Religious History is here at AAR/SBL! Come check us out in the book exhibit near the coffee (booth 814). #aarsbl

This second video goes into more detail the four main features of the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIUw...

1) Browse
2) Visualize
3) Analyze
4) Get Involved

Check out our new intro to the Database of Religious History: youtu.be/bkTVIZAwZ4c This high level overview introduces the project and gives a summary of its audience, main features, and future goals.

#tbt to my entires for the @religionhistory.bsky.social
@UBC, I had forgotten how many I wrote! religiondatabase.org/accounts/Mad...

Check out our brand new video overview of the DRH. It introduces the overall context and unique contributions of the project for academics, students, and the general public: youtu.be/qAFCFINYuho

We have a new a brand new Analyze feature on our website: our managing editor Dr. Billy Noseworthy tried it out and wrote up a short piece on his experience: religiondatabase.org/landing/abou...

You can find the open-access article here: academic.oup.com/jaar/advance...

Our team just published an article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion entitled "On the Category of Religion: A Taxonomic Analysis of a Large-Scale Database", in it we test the salience of the term across Religious Studies and between various sub-disciplines using a big-data approach.

A wonderful, diverse resource! (full disclosure, I have contributed to it)

The DRH is here at #AARSBL23 at both 217 come visit us to hear about the project and learn how to contribute!

We've passed a quarter million points of data, each represents an observation on the history of religion tied in time and space by an academic expert...

religiondatabase.org/landing

The DRH is excited to award three projects research grants to use the DRH. We're looking forward to working with them and seeing their eventual results: religiondatabase.org/landing/abou...