Since 2014, the Center for Religious Studies has recognized outstanding research by MA students enrolled in Religious Studies at CEU. The prize goes to the author(s) of the thesis(es) of the year deemed best on the basis of nominations by supervisors and the evaluation of the CRS Executive Committee.
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Annual Religious Studies Best Theses Award Recipients
2025
Mohamed Farrag
CEU Department of Legal Studies
Judicial Activism in Religious-Related Disputes: A Comparative Study Between the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court and the Israeli High Court of Justice Since 2018
2024
Kseniia Murastova
CEU Department of History
West, East and Discourses of Peace and War in the Public Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church (1943 – late 1940s)
2023
Bálint Békefi
CEU Department of Philosophy
Enganging Oppy's Metaphilosophy of Religion: Arguments, Worldviews, and Disagreement
2022
Ana Inés Aldazabal
CEU Department of Medieval Studies
When Woman Married Satan: The Emergence of Diabolical Witchcraft in French Medieval Literature
2021
Sara Boljević
CEU Department of Philosophy
E. J. Lowe’s Argument for the Existence of God: A Neo-Platonic Defense
2020
Eszter Jakab
CEU Cultural Heritage Studies Program
Remembering Enlightenment: Bodh Gayā in the Cultural Memory of Thailand
2019
Nicholas Gribble
CEU Department of International Relations
Statehood as a Global Religion: Or How the World Was Made Natural
2018
Anna Smelova
CEU Department of History
The Temperance Movement: Alcohol and Politics in fin-de-siècle Russia
2017
James Gresock
CEU Department of History
Rebellious Heretics and Faithful Martyrs: Media Polemics and the Symbolic Language of the "Bohemian Question" throughout the Thirty Years’ War
2016
Povilas Dikavicius
CEU Department of History
Pompa Funebris: Funeral Rituals and Civic Community in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius
Ines Ivic
CEU Department of Medieval Studies
The Cult of Saint Jerome in Dalmatia in the Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries
Germain Laigle
CEU Department of International Relations
Contemporary European Jihadism: Friendship and Counterculture
2015
Roxana Aras
CEU Department of History
Sacred Smellscapes: the Olfactory in Contemporary Christian and Muslim Lebanese Communities
2014
Emese Muntan
CEU Department of History
From Apocalyptic Prophecy to Political Discourse: The Relationship between the Theological and the Political in Reformed Funeral Speeches in Mid-Seventeenth Century Principality of Transylvania