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.
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
Part One: Articles
University of Messina
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.
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.
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.
Luther H. Martin
Erika Meyer-Dietrich
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
