Keywords

• Evolution
• Rituals
• Cognitive approaches (Boyer, McCauley/Lawson, etc.
• Cultural, symbolic approaches (Geertz, Rappaport)
• Ritual studies
• Judaism
• Diaspora Judaism
• Judaism of the Late Second Temple Period
• Apologetics in Early Judaism
• Qumran - Dead Sea Scrolls
• Myths and rituals
• Ritual theory
• Phenomenology of religion
• Typological definitions of sacred texts
• Charism/charismatic(s) movements
• The Bible
• Research methods
• History of research
• Ancient rhetorics and epistolography
• Cultural and social anthropology
• Semiotics of religion
• Ritual theory
• History of research on religion
• The History of Religions School
• Myth and Ritual School
• Roy A. Rappaport
• Christianity
• Early Christian Apologetics
• The Partings of the Way debate
• The martyr literature
• Early Christian asceticism
• Early Christianity in the pre-Constantine Period
• Early patristics
• Jesus
• The Historical Jesus
• Canon
• Processes of canonisation
• New Testament
• The Origin of the New Testament
• Paul
• The new perspective on Paul
• God
• Contemporary concepts of God
• Multireligiosity
• Epistemological conditions for modern Christianity
• Feminist philosophy
• Studies on the conception of gender and sexuality in antiquity
• Historical method and research techniques
• History of mentalities
• Intellectual history with regard to the study of the ancient world
• Theorising on the possibilities for conducting intellectual history
• Lives of other animal and human species past and present
• Biological psychology
• Psychology of cognition
• Culture and cognition
• Rituals
• Cultural theory
• Gender
• Classical rhetoric