The International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR). The IACSR is an interdisciplinary association, including scholars from a wide variety of disciplines in the human, social, natural and health sciences that are interested in the academic, scientific study of religious phenomena.

The Centre for Religion & Cognition (CRC), hosted by the University of Groningen since 2005, is an initiative of scholars working in different academic disciplines who study Religion from the perspective of Cognitive Science.

Explaining Early Jewish and Christian Movements: Ritual, Memory and Identity. The studies conducted in this project provide examples of different Jewish and Christian movements from the second century BCE to the fourth century CE: the Qumran movement, the Pharisees, the movement around John the Baptist, different strands of the early Jesus movement, Pauline communities, Jewish Christianity, and Valentinian and Gnostic movements. The project has received funding from the Academy of Finland 2007-2010.

The Context Group: A Project on the Bible in Its Socio-Cultural Context. The Context Group is a working group of international scholars committed to the use of the social sciences in biblical interpretation. The group emerged in the late 1980's from earlier associations in the SBL and CBA.