Due to the heterogeneity of sources, research on religion cannot be conducted exclusively in the digital space. RESILIENCE therefore aims to bridge the gap between digital and physical research spaces.
Research on religion often confronts scholars with the fact that not all the sources are and can be available online, or digitised. The difficulty in accessing these diverse sources, often located in religious sites, restricted archives, secluded monuments or other hidden places, and reachable only through personal contacts and networks.
In addition, our community deals with a very diversified typology of sources, which include not only texts, but also material (artefacts, architecture, etc.) and immaterial evidence (rites, music, liturgy, traditions and other non-physical forms of expression of religious contexts). While none of those hurdles is unique on its own, their combination is sufficiently common in our field to warrant a dedicated “physical pillar” alongside RESILIENCE’s digital services.
Read more in Deliverable D2.1, Services Preparation and Implementation Strategy.