Notes on Contributors
Lars Albinus
is associate professor at the University of Aarhus with a special interest in Ancient Greek Religion, The Study of Science, and Philosophy of Religion. He has published monographies within each area.
Edward Bever
is Professor of History and Director of the School of Professional Studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He specializes in the history of magic and witchcraft, is the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life (2008), and co-editor of Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization (2017).
Gideon Bohak
holds the Jacob M. Alkow Chair for the History of the Jews in the Ancient World at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud. His research focuses on the history of Jewish magic and on the magical, mystical, astrological and divinatory texts from the Cairo Genizah. His most recent books include Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (Cambridge, 2008) and A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Jewish Magic (Los Angeles, 2014).
Corby Kelly
is an independent scholar based in Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Stanford University.
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
is senior lecturer in Science of Religion, Aarhus University, specializing in formative Christ-religion and evolutionary approaches to religion. He has recently co-authored with Turner, Maryanski, and Geertz, The Emergence and Evolution of Religion: By Means of Natural Selection.
Lars Madsen
holds a Master in The Study of Religion and Philosophy. He has written about the intersection between religion and philosophy in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy and has a special interest in the philosophical implications of The Cognitive Science of Religion.
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
is emeritus associate professor of History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in ancient Egyptian religion, Hermeticism and the comparative study of ritual. He is editor and author of Danish textbooks of History of Religions. Current research topic: the ancient Egyptian roots of Hermetic texts.
Jörg Rüpke
is a Fellow in Religious Studies and Vice-director of the Max Weber Centre at Erfurt, Germany. He has led projects on Lived Ancient Religion, Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspectives and is now Co-director of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe “Urbanity and Religion” (with Susanne Rau). Rüpke has published widely on Roman religion and ritual.
Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen
is senior lecturer in Comparative Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark specializing in cognitive and evolutionary approaches to ritual and magic, cognitive historiography and cultural immunology. He is the author of A Cognitive Theory of Magic (2007).
Dimitris Xygalatas
is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Connecticut, where he directs the Experimental Anthropology Lab. His research focuses on ritual, cooperation, and the things that make us human. He is the author of The Burning Saints: Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria (2012).