While there has been an extensive discussion of the declining impact and relevance of “religion” or religious institutions in the West (the so-called secularization narrative), the group The Demise of Religions investigated cases of the disappearance of actual religions in the past and the present age. The group analyzed a wide range of case-studies from the ancient Mediterranean, the Silk Road, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages to contemporary Papua New Guinea, the United States, France, England, and Japan. The group explored various internal and external factors contributing to how religions end. Thereby, dominant patterns of religious historiography had to be challenged and history rewritten. Unexpectedly, the activities of the group fell into a time when the Yezidi Nadia Murad obtained the Nobel Peace Prize and when extinction discourses became prominent. The group explored the phenomenon of extinction on a cultural level.