Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke
- Email: joerg.ruepke@uni-erfurt.de
- Website: Personal website at Universität Erfurt
- Address: MWK, Universität Erfurt, Nordhäuser Str. 63, 99089 Erfurt, Forschungsbau „Weltbeziehungen“ (C19)
Activities
Publications
Academic publications
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Rüpke, Jörg (2026a): "The invention of civil religion in Cicero’s speech “On his house” and Georg Wissowa’s re-interpretation as sacral law", In: Intellectual History Review, 36(1), 53–63.
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Rüpke, Jörg (2026b): „Religious Change and the Use of Religion in Greek and Roman Cities”, In: Penelope J. E. Davies, Christina G. Williamson (eds.): The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 1: Ancient Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Rüpke, Jörg (2026c): „Property, reciprocity, and urban morale in the Sententiae of Publilius Syrus”, In: Gabriella Gelardini, Kåre S. Fuglseth, Per J. Bekken (eds.): Bridging Educational Virtues and Values: Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian Paideia and its Relevance in Past and Present, Religious Diversity and Education in Europe, Münster: Waxmann.
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Rüpke, Jörg (2025): Weihnachten in der Stadt/Christmas in town: 5 Essays, Hamburg: BoD.
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Rüpke, Jörg (2024): “The Invention of Civil Religion in Cicero's Speech ’On His House’: Claims for Restitution and Boundaries of Publicly Binding Religious Practice”, In: Intellectual History Review 2024 (in preparation).
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Rüpke, Jörg (2023): “Cicero’s Philosophy of Piety Seen Through the Lens of Urban Religion”, In: Christopher Diez, Christoph Schubert (eds.), Zwischen Skepsis und Staatskult: Neue Perspektiven auf Ciceros De natura deorum, Palingenesia 134, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2023, 40-52.
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Rüpke, Jörg (2023): “Delineating and Blurring Urban Space and Urban Atmosphere in Roman Elegy: Tibullus’ Construction of Urbanity by Poetic and Religious Means”, In: Religion in the Roman Empire 9,2 (2023).
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Rüpke, Jörg (2023): “Sacralization and focalization: Agentic perspectives on sanctuaries”, In: Greg Woolf, Ilaria Bultrighini, Camilla Norman (eds.), Sanctuaries and Experiences: Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 83, Stuttgart: Steiner.
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Rüpke, Jörg (2022): "Gods in the city", In: Corinne Bonnet et al. (eds.), Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022, 893-910. DOI: 10.1515/9783110798432-046.
Media and podcasts
- Rüpke, Jörg (2023): “Holidays as divine property: Moving symbols of ownership from the countryside into the city”, In: log of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published 27.11.2023)
