This interdisciplinary volume brings together 37 contributions, most of them on the history of Ancient Nordic religion. In addition, there are papers on later European and Mediterranean religious history and investigations into Bahai'ism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrism, and the history of research in the history of religion.

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The editor directs the junior research group on 'Ritual Studies and the History of Religion' in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Heidelberg and is a member of the German Association for the History of Religion.