D5.3 Second delivery of the online materials

Training in The Use and Study of Special Documents, training in Digital Humanities and Religious studies.

Studying the doctrinal features of religious beliefs or examining the relation between a religious community and a social, economic, cultural and political framework at a specific historical moment  requires an acquaintance with a plural and highly diversified set of sources. The study of these sources requires the use of cross-disciplinary methodologies that make it possible to account for the specific features of each individual historical document. Through its access policy, ReIReS provides young scholars with a programme of training activities that enables them to become acquainted with the skills required for historical-religious studies in terms of methodological, historical and linguistic knowledge, as well as scholarly contributions coming from other disciplines. ReIReS initiates, improves and professionalizes the training of scholars that make use of ReIReS’ services, and trains them to train others in the same approach. For this last task it is necessary that the materials used during the ReIReS training courses are easily available, so that they can be re-used. According to the open access policy of ReIReS these materials are available for consultation and for re-use in developing other training activities. In addition, since one of the objectives of WP5 is to allow the users of ReIReS to train themselves scholars, these open access materials represent a constant point of reference that is updated every six months in the occasion of the new week long school or training course. The task leader takes sees to collecting the different materials and of their publication in the specific training section of the website.

Meanwhile the ReIReS website has a specific section on training and on the online materials of these trainings. The section contains materials  (guides, presentations, academic papers and overviews) related to the School in Mainz (September 2019), the DH Course in Mainz (January 2019), the School in Paris (February 2019) and the DH Course in Bologna (July 2019).

The section is accessible via:  https://reires.eu/online-materials-for-training-activities/.

At the same time, the obligations towards the EU must be met to provide a specific deliverable in the form of a single pdf, containing the collection of materials, which is easy to distribute and to upload.  This has resulted in this document, deliverable D5.3. The present document only contains materials related to the contributions of the teachers and other experts, and not to the training programme itself nor to the guides that have been supplied to each participant.