Description: Did new senses of the self emerge in the High Roman Empire, and if so what were the religious corollaries? Were such changes connected to processes of institutional change? Could they usefully be described as individualisation? These are the key concerns of the authors of this volume.
Brief description: Jorg Rupke, Born 1962; since 1999 Prof. for Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt; since 2008 Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg and spokesman of the research group Religious individualization in a historical perspective; since 2012 Member of the science council.Gregory D. Woolf, Born 1961; 2009-10 Fellow of the Max Weber College of the University of Erfurt; Professor of Ancient History in the University of St Andrews, Scotland; currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the origins of religious pluralism in the Roman World.