Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Graeco-Roman Religions
Edited by
Panayotis Pachis [+–]
Aristotle University
Panayotis Pachis is Professor of Religious Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His publications include Religion and Politics in the Graeco-Roman World: Redescribing the Isis-Sarapis Cult (Barbounakis, 2010) and many articles on the Graeco-Roman religions and the cognitive study of religion. He is also the author of five books in Greek and co-editor of four volumes, most recently Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences (with Donald Wiebe; Equinox, 2014).
Luther H. Martin
Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, 2000.
Series: Vanias Editions
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Introduction
Aristotle University
Panayotis Pachis is Professor of Religious Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His publications include Religion and Politics in the Graeco-Roman World: Redescribing the Isis-Sarapis Cult (Barbounakis, 2010) and many articles on the Graeco-Roman religions and the cognitive study of religion. He is also the author of five books in Greek and co-editor of four volumes, most recently Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences (with Donald Wiebe; Equinox, 2014).
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Pier Franco Beatrice
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Dominique Briquel
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University of Salerno
CASADIO GIOVANNI is Professor Ordinarius of History of
Religions at the University of Salerno. Past member of the executive
committee of the European Association for the Study of religions
(EASR) as Publications officer. Member of the editorial board of the
second edition of Eliade’s Encyclopedia of Religion. Member of the
advisory board of several international series and journals (including
Archaeus and Vergilius). 109 publications on ancient Mediterranean
religions and religious historiography. Books: Storia del culto di Dioniso
XIV in Argolide (1994), Vie gnostiche all’ immortalità (1997), Il vino dell’ anima (1999), Ugo Bianchi: Una vita per la storia delle religioni (ed. 2002).
Religions at the University of Salerno. Past member of the executive
committee of the European Association for the Study of religions
(EASR) as Publications officer. Member of the editorial board of the
second edition of Eliade’s Encyclopedia of Religion. Member of the
advisory board of several international series and journals (including
Archaeus and Vergilius). 109 publications on ancient Mediterranean
religions and religious historiography. Books: Storia del culto di Dioniso
XIV in Argolide (1994), Vie gnostiche all’ immortalità (1997), Il vino dell’ anima (1999), Ugo Bianchi: Una vita per la storia delle religioni (ed. 2002).
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Luther H. Martin
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Aristotle University
Panayotis Pachis is Professor of Religious Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His publications include Religion and Politics in the Graeco-Roman World: Redescribing the Isis-Sarapis Cult (Barbounakis, 2010) and many articles on the Graeco-Roman religions and the cognitive study of religion. He is also the author of five books in Greek and co-editor of four volumes, most recently Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences (with Donald Wiebe; Equinox, 2014).
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Jonathan Peste
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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.
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Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
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