Peter MAŇO

Visiting Scholar
Slovak Academy of Sciences and Masaryk University, Brno

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Maňo holds a B.c. in Social Anthropology (2010) from Comenius University in Bratislava and an M.A. in Cognition and Culture (2012) from Queen's University Belfast. He holds two PhDs, one in Religious Studies (2022) from the Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University in Brno and one in Social Anthropology from the Institute of Social Anthropology at Comenius University in Bratislava. He has also worked at the Experimental Anthropology Lab of the University of Connecticut as a Fulbright visiting researcher. At present, he is a researcher at the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA) at Masaryk University in Brno and at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He is also a lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at Comenius University. As an anthropologist, he works in the sphere of the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion. He is particularly interested in (religious) rituals from a cognitive and evolutionary perspective. He has conducted long-term fieldwork and various research projects in Mauritius starting in 2013, using ethnography, survey, and experimental methods to explore ritual participation, religious beliefs, socio-economic correlates, and moral outcomes, as well as their connection to local socio-ecologies. While at the Department in the summer semester 2026, he is teaching a course on "Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion."