Total Devotion International Writing Workshop

The Total Devotion Project and our international collaborators and advisors presented and discussed our current research an intense writing workshop in Middelfart.

Guest-Professor Research Stay

Professor Jan N. Bremmer was a guest-professor in the Total Devotion Project in September 2023 in Odense and contributed with many aspects of feedback, vetting, and communal editorial work. As a fun excursion, we visited Trelleborg near Slagelse.

Two Panels at the EASR: Technologies of Total Devotion

The Total Devotion Project and our international collaborators and advisors presented and discussed our current research at the European Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference: Religion and Technologies in Vilnius.

Presentation at the European Association of Jewish Studies, Frankfurt

Presentation at the Danish Association for the Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Odense

Aarhus-Odense Online Seminar

Second Writing Workshop

Our second Writing Workshop took place in Svendborg in November 2022.

Publication of Special Issue

Publication of a special issue of leading journal Religion entitled: Total Devotion in the Ancient World with contributions by the RADREL-team and collaborators.

Extreme Beliefs Project

Laura Feldt and Klazina Staat visit the Extreme Beliefs Project led by Rik Peels at VU in Amsterdam.

Writing workshop

May 21.-24., 2022: The Total Devotion research group held its first writing workshop to prepare a special issue on forms and understandings of total devotion in the ancient world in Nyborg.

Professor Jan N. Bremmer visits SDU

During the month of October 2021, Professor Jan N. Bremmer, visited the project at SDU – the first of a series of research stays - and worked on his subproject. He also gave a lecture on Religious Pluralism in Antiquity for staff and students at the Study of Religion, History, and Classical Studies, and also made time for some social and academic outings with project members.

Our first workshop on Total Devotion was held on October 7-8, 2021

At the workshop, the project members and collaborators presented and discussed our work-in-progress papers for our planned special issue, with papers by Prof. Jörg Rüpke, Esther Eidinow, Jan N. Bremmer, Ingvild S. Gilhus, Tamara Holkenov, Klazina Staat, Christian Høgel and Laura Feldt.

Klazina Staat has been appointed Assistant Professor of Latin Literature and Roman Culture at the University of Amsterdam

Klazina Staat has been appointed Assistant Professor of Latin Literature and Roman Culture at the University of Amsterdam, which is a 60% position. This means that Klazina will work on her Total Devotion subproject from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2023 at 40%. We are very happy both that she got such a prestigious position and that we get to collaborate with her for a longer period of time!

Ingvild Gilhus receives prestigious award

Professor Ingvild Sælid Gilhus from Bergen University receives the pretigious HumSam Award 2021 from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.