Religious cultures during the Roman Empire and in Late Antiquity: religious resources between faith, society and power (C02)

• Subject Area: Ancient History ; Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: since 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 215859406

Since the period of the Roman Empire, and especially in Late Antiquity, religion has proved to be a particularly important and identity-forming resource, not least because the spread and establishment of the Christian religion and the associated processes of Christianisation, which have to be differentiated locally. This has created new dynamics for existing religious and cult communities as well as for newly emerging ones. In one case study, the oracles of the period of the Roman Empire and from Late Antiquity (texts, spaces, things) and in a second case study the complex connection between religious, economic and political structures, especially in the province of Syria, will be examined as case studies of religious ResourceCultures.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1070: Resource Cultures. Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Relation to Resources
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Mischa Meier; Professorin Dr. Irmgard Männlein; Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Stanzel; Dr. Peter Zeller, since 7/2021