ABSTRACT
The Database of Religious History (DRH) is an online, open-access, digital repository of information on the global history of religion. Crucial to the theme of responsible global scholarship, the DRH generates data in a bottom-up fashion and welcomes contributions from qualified experts based in any country – an approach intended to break the monopolistic tendencies of Anglo-European institutions in global academia. The DRH organises its data using a modular format that is accessible across languages and interpretive frameworks, while opening the door to both quantitative and qualitative analyses that help scholars research, teach, explore, and compare religious beliefs, practices, and history. Entries consist of expert-filled questionnaires (called “polls”) based on religious groups, places, and texts. The ever-growing DRH dataset on the religious communities of the Mediterranean offers the potential for wide-reaching engagement and collaboration.
