The DRH began as one of the flagship initiatives of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC), based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Now funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation and support from UBC, the DRH has become an independent initiative with partners and collaborators from around the world. It is a free and open-access platform dedicated to academic collaboration, rigorous scholarly standards, and interdisciplinary work in the sciences and humanities.

With the DRH, you can:

• Explore a clearinghouse for scholarly knowledge and keep pace with the new developments in your field
• Participate in a forum for scholarly debate
• Access quantitative and qualitative data for both research and pedagogy
• Upload your own text and image archives and explore those of other scholars
• Prepare entries to receive both a publication credit and honorarium
• Become an editor and solicit new entries in your area of expertise

DRH entries:

• Are written exclusively by scholars with editorial oversight
• Are currently organized around one of four units of analysis:
  • “Religious Group”
  • “Religious Place”
  • “Religious Text” (December 2020)
  • “Religious Object” (January 2021)
• Bring together quantified, standardized data with qualitative information and comments
• Contain powerful, built-in analytic and data visualization tools
• Provide links to crucial resources and text and image databases
• Include a DOI by the UBC library and easy-to-use “cite entry” and “challenge/comment” buttons

For more information, please visit: https://religiondatabase.org/landing/about/about-the-drh