Max-Weber-Kolleg will host a virtual book launch of the edited volume Religion in the Roman Empire on Monday 7 February, 18:00-20:00. For information about the event, please see and follow links in this pdf.

About the publication

The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. Religion in the Roman Empire provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

Religion in the Roman Empire is edited by UrbNet affiliate Professor Jörg Rüpke (University of Erfurt) and Professor Greg Woolf (University of California) and was published in the fall of 2021. It is part of the series ‘Religionen der Menschheit’ and is published by Kohlhammer Verlag.

Together with colleagues, Centre Director Professor Rubina Raja has contributed to the publication with two chapters on sanctuaries and economy, respectively.

Find out more about the publication here.