Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE)
Managing Editor: Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)
Editors: Katell Berthelot (Aix-en-Provence), Jan Dochhorn (Durham), Maren Niehoff (Jerusalem), Rubina Raja (Aarhus), Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt), Christopher Smith (St Andrews), Chiara Ombretta Tommasi (Pisa), Markus Vinzent (Erfurt), Annette Weissenrieder (Halle a.d. Saale)
Associate Editors: Nicole Belayche (Paris), Robyn Le Blanc (Greensboro, NC), John Curran (Belfast), Richard L. Gordon (Erfurt), Gesine Manuwald (London), Volker Menze (Wien), Blossom Stefaniw (Oslo), Miguel John Versluys (Leiden), Greg Woolf (Los Angeles)
Volume 12 (2026) / Price per volume (3 issues with approx. 430 pages)
Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE) aims to advance and document new and integrative perspectives on religion in the ancient world, combining multidisciplinary methodologies. Committed to interdisciplinarity and new approaches to the study of religion, it offers a space to take up recent, but still incipient, research to modify and cross the disciplinary boundaries of the History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, Ancient History, Jewish History, Rabbinics, New Testament, Early Christianity, Patristics, Coptic Studies, Gnostic and Manichean Studies, Late Antiquity and Oriental Languages.
We hope to stimulate the development of new approaches that encompass the local and global trajectories of the multi-dimensional pluralistic religions of antiquity.
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The following journals are published under the S2O model:
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Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE)
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