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Ritual Studies is a multidisciplinary field, founded by Ronald Grimes (1987). It examines the theory and practice of ritual. Moderator @MarkBeumer.bsky.social
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Non-selected literature PhD-thesis (Complete) for PhD-thesis "From Asklepios to Kosmas? Ritual Change and Continuity within Christian Transformation of Temple Sleep in Late Antiquity"
Moshe Blidstein, 'The ambivalence of purification and the challenge of transformation in The Rites of Passage and in early Christian texts', in:
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December 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Based on my presentation for Colloquia Ceranea VI, I have published my contribution as an article in my magazine @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Mark Beumer, 'From temple sleep to church sleep. New perspectives', in: Kleio-Historia, nr. 22. (2025) 8-16.
Mark Beumer, 'From temple sleep to church sleep. New perspectives', in: Kleio-Historia, nr. 22. (2025) 8-16.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Mark Beumer, 'From temple sleep to church sleep. New perspectives', in: Kleio-Historia, nr. 22. (2025)
Mark Beumer, 'From temple sleep to church sleep. New perspectives', in: Kleio-Historia, nr. 22. (2025)
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Exorcist Nars Beemster: ‘Als een demoon tegen me gromt, zeg ik kortweg: Niet doen!’
Hollywood is dol op films over exorcisme. Nu weer The Ritual, met Al Pacino in de rol van duiveluitdrijver. Maar klopt die film een beetje? ‘Groen uitgeslagen gezichten? Ik heb het nooit gezien’, zegt...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Today, further with the Isis cult, specifically the role of women in Egyptian cult which differend quite from the Roman world. There, women were supposed to stay inside. Romans were very distrought to see how women participated in the cult of Isis, who proclaimed herself als Goddess of Women.
July 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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My Name is Your Name
Divine epithets serve a variety of purposes, with the most frequent being those related to the locations and functions of the gods. Epithets derived from individual names, however, have received less ...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome
The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urge...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Narratives of the Roman Empire
Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contribut...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Divination and Authority in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
The study of ancient divination has increasingly become a focus of research over the past few decades, with both institutionalized and individual (‘lived’) practices attracting scholarly interest. How...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Special Issue: Diagnosis: Late Antique Taxonomies in Medicine and Healing Issue Editor: Nils H. Korsvoll/Ágnes T. Mihálykó
Volume 17, issue 1 of the journal Trends in Classics was published in 2025.
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July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews
"The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews" published on 17 Jun 2024 by Brill.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Lived Scriptures: Ascetics, Martyrs, and Miracle Workers in Late Antiquity
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July 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Geachte experts,

Ik heb het Nederlands Centrum voor de Studie van Antieke Godsdiensten opgericht. Wie mag ik op de website vermelden?

Dear experts,

I have founded the Dutch Centre for the Study of Ancient Religions. Who may I mention on the website?

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Kleio-Historia: dé site voor geschiedenis, onderzoek en onderwijs!
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June 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The goal of the Nederlands Centrum voor de Studie van Antieke Godsdiensten/Netherlands 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. Sign in now!
June 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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. Geïnteresseerd? Stuur een bericht!
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June 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Spiritualism and Phenomenology- Wipf and Stock Publishers
The conflict between spiritualism and phenomenology will no longer take place. Better, it is through their encounter and their backlash that a new fruitfulne...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Evangelism Renewed- Wipf and Stock Publishers
Evangelism has entered a new day. From the 1980s to the present a vast array of new forms of evangelism have emerged, shaped and informed by theological refl...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Recensie van het laatste boek van Ronald L Grimes wat hopelijk niet het einde van zijn betrokkenheid bij Ritual Studies betekent! Schaf allemaal dit boek aan!
Mark Beumer (Review) Ronald L. Grimes, Endings in Ritual Studies (Ritual Studies International 2020) in: Kleio-Historia, nr. 21. (2025)
Mark Beumer (Review) Ronald L. Grimes, Endings in Ritual Studies (Ritual Studies International 2020) in: Kleio-Historia, nr. 21. (2025)
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June 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Der polymorphe Bes
Bes has been transmitted from Ancient Egypt as a polymorphic figure with several heads. According to the sources, he was a fairly widespread and especially popular being that was received in both roya...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Religiöse Traditionen zwischen Traditionalismus und Moderne
The significance of religious traditions has been discovered and rediscovered in recent times. This is in contrast to the conventional assumption that we are living in a modern, "post-traditional" soc...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Ägyptisches Buchwesen
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive study on punctuation in Coptic and Greek manuscripts from late ancient Egypt. It provides a nuanced exploration of how the reading aids functioned b...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Romans
This volume stems from author’s thesis as part of the ERC Project: CATENA at the University of Birmingham, Uk. It is a detailed analysis of the manuscript and textual tradition of this type of catena,...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Pattern and the Image
One of Plato’s best-known ideas is that the sensible world is an image of the intelligible pattern. The book examines the second life of this concept in late antiquity, especially in the Hellenistic J...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Religionswissenschaft
This volume offers a unique introduction to contemporary religious studies in twenty-seven accessible, clearly written chapters written by religious studies scholars from Germany, Austria, and Switzer...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM