Alfred Loisy as a comparative historian of religions. An investigation of Loisy’s position within early 20th century and current comparative methodology

Biblical Stylization in the Greek and Latin Acta martyrum and Passiones from Late Antiquity (4th - 6th centuries)

Christianity, the Oriental Religions and the Mystery Cults in the thought of Franz Cumont, and his work within the context of Liberal Theology and Modernism (Alfred Loisy)

From Optina to Athos: revivals of hesyshasm in Russian monastic and intellectual centers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

FWO Sabbatical Prof. Danny Praet

history and reception of ancient philosophy and religion

Junior Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship Rey Sarah

Light from the Orient / Light on the Orient

Modern Germans, Ancient Jews: Political Representations of Early Judaism in the German-Speaking Lands of the 19th Century

Orientalism and Franz Cumont (1868-1947): his views on “East” and “West” in the context of classical studies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

: Sacred Fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique hagiography.

“Sophist” (σοφιστής), “wise man” (σοφός) and “philosopher” (φιλοσοφός): the Origin of a Nomenclature, from Classical Greece to Imperial Rome and Ancient Armenia

Views on Women in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Rushd in context.