Regrowing Egyptian cults: The potential of using modern
computational methods in the study of ancient religions

k 2017

Regrowing Egyptian cults: The potential of using modern computational methods in the study of ancient religions

MERTEL, Adam, Tomáš GLOMB and Zdeněk STACHOŇ

Basic information

Original name

Regrowing Egyptian cults: The potential of using modern computational methods in the study of ancient religions

Authors

MERTEL, Adam, Tomáš GLOMB and Zdeněk STACHOŇ

Edition

Digital Humanities 2017 conference, Montreal, 8-11 August, 2017

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60101 History

Country of publisher

Canada

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

Digital humanities; Egyptian cults; computational methods; network theory; geographical modelling; Aegean Sea

Abstract

V originále

Historical sources provide us only a fragmentary testimony of historical processes. The survival of specific sources and the information they contain is very often determined by chance. Because of these circumstances, the reconstruction of many historical processes remains problematic or, in some cases, almost impossible. In addition to these problems, some long-term historical processes are, due to their gradual nature, very difficult to recognize from the perspective of “event history”. The interdisciplinary project GEHIR (Generative Historiography of Religion, http://gehir.phil.muni.cz) at Masaryk university strives to, within the framework of the historically oriented study of religions, adopt innovative methods used in the study of the dynamics of complex systems, i.e. methods including mathematical and geographical modelling, agent-based simulations or network analysis. Within the study of historical processes these formalized methods are 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. In this paper we would like to introduce the results from a case study within the GEHIR which focused on uncovering the possible factors influencing the early spread of the cult of Isis and Sarapis in the ancient Mediterranean.

Links

MUNI/M/1867/2014, interní kód MU

Name: Generativní historiografie antického Středomoří: Modelování a simulace dynamiky šíření náboženských představ a forem chování (Acronym: GEHIR)

Investor: Masaryk University, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects

Citovat

MERTEL, Adam, Tomáš GLOMB and Zdeněk STACHOŇ. Regrowing Egyptian cults: The potential of using modern computational methods in the study of ancient religions. In Digital Humanities 2017 conference, Montreal, 8-11 August. 2017.

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MERTEL, Adam, Tomáš GLOMB and Zdeněk STACHOŇ. Regrowing Egyptian cults: The potential of using modern computational methods in the study of ancient religions. In \textit{Digital Humanities 2017 conference, Montreal, 8-11 August}. 2017.

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