Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History
This article introduces a new online, quantitative encyclopedia of religious cultural history, the Database of Religious History (DRH). The DRH aims to systematically collect information on past religious groups from around the world in a standardized form, providing a novel digital humanities resou...
| Publié dans: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
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| Auteurs: | ; |
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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| Dans: |
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Database of Religious History
/ Religion
/ Histoire
/ Humanités numériques
/ Big data
/ Science des religions
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AD Sociologie des religions |
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| Résumé: | This article introduces a new online, quantitative encyclopedia of religious cultural history, the Database of Religious History (DRH). The DRH aims to systematically collect information on past religious groups from around the world in a standardized form, providing a novel digital humanities resource for the religious studies community, a forum for scholarly debates, a pedagogical aid, and a platform for testing hypotheses about religious change over space and time. We employ the DRH project as a lens through which to view some larger intellectual issues surrounding the comparative study of religion, the role of functionalism and “big data” in the study of religion, the challenges of large-scale collaborative projects, and the future of science-humanities integration. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw012 |