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Hellenisation, Empire and Globalisation

Lessons from Antiquity

Edited by
Luther H. Martin
Panayotis Pachis
Contributing Authors
Gustavo Benavides
Villanova University
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
University of Messina
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus [+–]
University of Bergen
GILHUS INGVILD SÆLID is Professor in the history of religions at the University of Bergen (1988-). Research interests: late antiquity and Gnosticism, new religious movements, and theories and methods in the history of religions. Vice Dean (1988) and Dean of the Faculty of
Arts, University of Bergen (1989-90) and member of the board of the
Norwegian Research Council for Social Sciences and Humanities
(1993-96). Member of the board of the University of Bergen (1999-),
Deputy Chairman of the board of the Norwegian Research Council
(2003-), Chairman of the board of Chr. Michelsen Institute.
Development Studies and Human Rights (2001-), member of the board
of the Bergen Festival (1999-) and member of the Executive Commitee
IAHR (1999-2004). Deputy General Secretary of the Executive
Committee IAHR (2005-2010). Member of the the Royal Norwegian
Society of Sciences and Letters in Trondheim and of the Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.
Gary Lease [+–]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Gary Lease, former Chair and Professor of the Department of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, died in 2008.
Erika Meyer-Dietrich
Ennio Sanzi [+–]
SANZI ENNIO (Roma 1965), under the guidance of Ugo Bianchi, studied History of Religions at University of Rome «La Sapienza», graduating in 1991 with the thesis Giove di Doliche. Dimensione sociale di organizzazione cultuale. He recieved his PhD degree in 1997 with the thesis, Soteriologia, escatologia e cosmologia nel culto di Mithra, di Iside e Osiride, e di Iuppiter Dolichenus. Osservazioni storico-comparative under the guidance of Ugo Bianchi and Giulia Sfameni Gasparro. He has also published Misteri, Soteriologia, Dualismo. Ricerche storico-religiose (Roma 1995), I culti orientali nell’ Impero romano. Un’ antologia di fonti (Cosenza, 2003), Cultos orientais e Magia no mundo elenístico romano. Modelos e perspectivas metodológicas (Fortaleza, 2006), with Carla Sfameni, Magia e Culti orientali. Per la storia religiosa della Tarda Antichità (Cosenza 2009), and several articles on the religious phenomena of the «Second Hellenism» under the title Oriental Cults and Magic. He has taught at the University of Messina and is working on Coptic sources for the fields of research mentioned above.
Einar Thomassen
University of Bergen

Acts of the Panel held during the 3rd Congress of the European Association for the Study of Religion, Bergen, Norway, 8-10 May 2003.

Series: Vanias Editions

Table of Contents

Preliminaries

Abbreviations
Luther H. Martin
Foreword
Luther H. Martin

Part One: Articles

Buddhism, Manichaeism, Markets and Empires [+–]
Luther H. Martin
.
The Globalisation and Localisation of Religion: From Hellenism to Late Antiquity
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
University of Messina
Globalization and Religion in the Roman Empire
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
University of Bergen
GILHUS INGVILD SÆLID is Professor in the history of religions at the University of Bergen (1988-). Research interests: late antiquity and Gnosticism, new religious movements, and theories and methods in the history of religions. Vice Dean (1988) and Dean of the Faculty of
Arts, University of Bergen (1989-90) and member of the board of the
Norwegian Research Council for Social Sciences and Humanities
(1993-96). Member of the board of the University of Bergen (1999-),
Deputy Chairman of the board of the Norwegian Research Council
(2003-), Chairman of the board of Chr. Michelsen Institute.
Development Studies and Human Rights (2001-), member of the board
of the Bergen Festival (1999-) and member of the Executive Commitee
IAHR (1999-2004). Deputy General Secretary of the Executive
Committee IAHR (2005-2010). Member of the the Royal Norwegian
Society of Sciences and Letters in Trondheim and of the Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.
What Constitutes Globalization for Religion? Hallmarks from Antiquity: Late Antiquity Egypt
Gary Lease
University of California, Santa Cruz
Gary Lease, former Chair and Professor of the Department of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, died in 2008.
The Very Idea of Globalization: The Case of Hellenistic Empire
Luther H. Martin
The City-god: An Expression for Localization
Erika Meyer-Dietrich
“Manufacturing Religion” in the Hellenistic Age: The Case of Isis-Demeter Cult
Panayotis Pachis
Magia e Culti Orientali III
Ennio Sanzi
SANZI ENNIO (Roma 1965), under the guidance of Ugo Bianchi, studied History of Religions at University of Rome «La Sapienza», graduating in 1991 with the thesis Giove di Doliche. Dimensione sociale di organizzazione cultuale. He recieved his PhD degree in 1997 with the thesis, Soteriologia, escatologia e cosmologia nel culto di Mithra, di Iside e Osiride, e di Iuppiter Dolichenus. Osservazioni storico-comparative under the guidance of Ugo Bianchi and Giulia Sfameni Gasparro. He has also published Misteri, Soteriologia, Dualismo. Ricerche storico-religiose (Roma 1995), I culti orientali nell’ Impero romano. Un’ antologia di fonti (Cosenza, 2003), Cultos orientais e Magia no mundo elenístico romano. Modelos e perspectivas metodológicas (Fortaleza, 2006), with Carla Sfameni, Magia e Culti orientali. Per la storia religiosa della Tarda Antichità (Cosenza 2009), and several articles on the religious phenomena of the «Second Hellenism» under the title Oriental Cults and Magic. He has taught at the University of Messina and is working on Coptic sources for the fields of research mentioned above.

Part Two: Responses

Response One
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
University of Messina
Response Two
Einar Thomassen
University of Bergen

ISBN-13 (Paperback)
9789602881217
Price (Paperback)
£19.99 / $29.95
Publication
01/06/2004
Pages
324
Size
234 x 168cm
Readership
scholars

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