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 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...

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.

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...

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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...