Nederlands Centrum voor de Studie van Antieke Godsdiensten/Dutch Centre for the Study of Ancient Religions

Het doel van het Nederlands Centrum voor de Studie van Antieke Godsdiensten/Dutch Centre for the Study of Ancient Religions is om alle wetenschappers in Nederland bij elkaar  te brengen die antieke godsdiensten bestuderen op dit platform. Zo kunnen we mensen en instituties met elkaar in verbinding brengen. Uiteraard zijn ook buitenlandse wetenschappers welkom zich aan te sluiten/The goal of the Nederlands Centrum voor de Studie van Antieke Godsdiensten/ Dutch Centre for the Study of Ancient Religions is to bring together all scholars in the Netherlands who study ancient religions on this platform. In this way we can connect people and institutions. Of course, foreign scholars are also welcome to join.

Instituties/Institutions
Centre d'analyse des rhétoriques religieuses de l'Antiquité (Strasbourg)

Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions

The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion (Open University, London/Milton Keynes)

Tijdschriften/Journals

NUMEN: International Review for the History of Religions

Onderwijs/Education

Antieke Godsdiensten (Leiden University)

Boeddhisme (Radboud Universiteit)

Bronteksten Aziatische religies (Radboud Universiteit)

Classical Mythology (Universiteit Utrecht)

Department of the Study of Religion (Aarhus University; they specialised in the cognitive sciences of religion in general, but some of them also specialised in applying their findings on ancient material; the Journal of Cognitive Historiography is one of their communication channels to the world; some special issues are devoted to ancient religions [Esther Eidinow, Leonardo Ambasciano and Irene Salvo are quite involved in this journal)

Hindoeïsme  (Radboud Universiteit)

Klassieke mythologie in de beeldende kunst. Universele verhalen verbeeld (HOVO Brabant)

Klassieke mythologie in tekst en beeld (Radboud Universiteit)

Master Religion and Pluralism, Ancient & Modern (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Minor Cultuur van de Antieke Wereld (VU)

Religion in Antiquity (UvA)

The Silk Road: Religious Cultures, Conflicts and Contacts from Europe to China (Radboud Universiteit)

Onderzoeksgroepen- en projecten/Research Groups and projects

Amykles Research Project

Antieke Geschiedenis (Utrecht University)

Het heiligdom van Herwen-Hemeling

Lived Scriptures: Ascetics, Martyrs, and Miracle Workers in Late Antiquity (Helsinki; also finished, but the group is still active)

Mapping Ancient Polytheisms (Toulouse; that one has already finished; however, the website is still active)

Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (Erfurt)

The Votives Project (Open University, London/Milton Keynes)

Wetenschappers/scholars (Alle namen zijn geplaatst met toestemming van de persoon/All names are posted with the person's permission)

Nicholas Aherne MSt (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) - Roman Sarcophagi; Roman East; Funerary Archaeology; Material and Visual Culture of the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds; Cults, Religion, Festival Culture; Classical Art and Archaeology

Bruno Alfonzo MA (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) - Ancient biographical literature with a special focus on the Hellenistic period and its epigrammatic sources. Religious aspects of ancient funerary literature. Reception and canonization of the classical legacy. Biographical narratives about the death and sacralization of classical Greco-Roman poets.

Drs. Mark Beumer (Karelsuniversiteit) - Greek, Roman en Egyption religion, early Christianity, Ritual Studies, temple sleep, church sleep, Asklepios & Hygieia, Isis and Sarapis, Kosmas and Damianos, Thekla, Artemios, Andreas, cult of saints, cult of martyrs, cult of relics

Prof. dr. Jan Bremmer (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) - Griekse, Romeinse, vroeg-christelijke en hedendaagse religie en de geschiedenis van hun studie

Drs. Nick Everts (Radboud Universiteit) - monastic ritualization, Ritual Studies

Drs. Eric Norde - Senior projectleider heiligdom Herwen-Hemeling uit de Romeinse tijd met mogelijk een voorganger uit de late ijzertijd.

Prof. dr. Paul van de Velde (Radboud Universiteit) - Hoogleraar - Vergelijkende Godsdienstwetenschap Azië (Boeddhisme en Hindoeïsme)

Buitenlandse wetenschappers/Foreign scholars

Dr. Kumari Abhilasha (Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute) - religious practices and fascinated about the ancient Sanatan and Egyptian culture.

Prof. Dr. Christopher Degelmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) -  Religionsgeschichte in den Kulturen des antiken Mittelmeerraums

Dr. Sotiria Dimopoulou (Independent Researcher)

Ranjusri Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Dr. Manjil Hazarika (Cotton University) - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology - Archaeology and Ethnography of of Indigenous Faith and Religion in Northeast India.

Juan Santiago Iglesias Sanlés MA (Independent Researcher) - early Christianity and cult to the lararia and imperial cult. 

Bastienne Klein MA (University of Cape Town) - Asklepios and Hygieia

Prof. dr. Jennifer Larson (Kent State University) - Greek poetry, ancient Mediterranean religions, gender and sexuality in Antiquity

Prof. Dr.  AnneMarie Luijendijk, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Head of New College West (Princeton University)

Dr. Owain Morris (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica, ArPA & LIRA), Investigador Adscrito/Associate researcher - his research is focused on the Greek colonisation period and the interactions the Greeks had with local groups in each context they established their settlements in. However, recently I have become interested in a series of Iron Age burials in the Balkan area that have bronze objects associated with the worship of the solar cult.

Dr. Maik Patzelt (Universität Osnabrück) or Dr. Maik Patzelt  (Universität Osnabrück, second profile)

Dr. Maik Patzelt (University of Freiburg)

Sharmin Rezowana MA (Comilla University) - Brahmanical and Buddhist Iconography and Religion of Early Medieval Bengal (Eastern India)

Dr. Nickolas P. Roubekas, PD Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Theology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Dr. Kerasia A. Stratiki (Open University of Cyprus)

Dr. Elora Tribedy (Nālānda University) - Assistant Professor, Coordinator, SCO Chair on Shared Buddhist Heritage - study of archaeological, visual and iconographic aspects of Buddhist practices in early and medieval periods of India.