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CURRICULUM VITAE
Panayotis Pachis
Professor of Scientific Study of Religion(s) – Hellenistic Religions and Cults.
Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Theology, Department of Biblical Studies and Scintific Study of Religio(s).
Thessaloniki , Building of Faculty of Theology, office 317 (3rth floor),
tel.: +2310 99 6933
fax: +2310 99 6938
E-mail:
Web-site: user/auth.gr/pachisp
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Method and Theory of Scientific Study of Religion(s),
Cognition and Study of Religion
Ancient Greek Religion,
Hellenistic Religions and Cults.
Cognitive Historiography.
EDUCATION
1975-1979 BA, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1980-1984, Department of Religionswissenschaft, Faculty of Kulturwissenschaft, University of Tübingen, Germany.
1988, March, PhD, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
PhD Dissertation: The use and significance of water and blood in the mystery cults of the Graeco-Roman Age (advisor: Gr.D.Ziakas).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1986-1988: Wiss. Assistant, Department of Biblical Studies and History of Religions.
1988-1990: Post-Doctorant Researcher, Department of Biblical Studies and History of Religions.
1993-1998: Lecturer, Department of Biblical Studies and History of Religions.
1998-2003: Assist. Professor, Department of Biblical Studies and History of Religions.
2003-2010: Assoc. Professor, Department of Biblical Studies and History of Religions.
2010- : Professor, Department of Biblical Studies and History of Religions.
1999 (Spring Term): Visiting Professor, Faculty of Religion, University of Vermont, U.S.A.
AWARDS ‒ HONORS -ASSOCIATIONS- RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
A. 1980-1984: Scholarschip of the Evangelisches Kirche von Deutchland (EKD).
1996-2010: Editorial Board of the Annual of the Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
2004-2005: Director of the Department of Biblical Studies and Scientific Study of Religion(s).
2005 - : Erasmus representative of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki fir the exanges between University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and University of Aarhus (Denmark),
2008 - : Representative of Department of Theology, in the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2011- : Distinguished Fellow of School of Religion, Cognition and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.
2012 – : Peer-Reviewer of the Journal, History (U.S.A.)
2013 -: Editorial Board of the Journal, Journal of Cognitive Historiography (U.S.A. United Kingdom).
B. 1988 – : Member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionsgeschichte (RVRG). Deutsche Zweig der International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R).
1990 -2000: Member of ERANOS (Ascona / Switzerland).
1992 - : Member of International Association for Manichaean Studies (IAMS) (Louvain - la – Neuve / Belgium).
1996- : Member of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR) (A Member Association of the International Association for the History of Religions. A Constituent Member of the Council of North American Societies for the Study of Religion).
2000 – : Member of the European Association for the Academic Study of Religions.
2006 – : (Founding) Member of the Greek Association for the Stusy of Culture and Religion (General Secretary).
2006- : (Founding) Member of International Association of Cognitive Studies.
C. CONGRESSES
Congress of Centro Sanguis Christi (Ρώμη) (November, 1984): «Il significato e il ruolo del sangue nei rituali del culto Graeco-Romano».
Congress of Centro Sanguis Christi (Ρώμη) (November, 1989): «Sangue e Antropologia nella teologia medievale».
XVIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions [I. A. H. R.],Rome, 03-09. 09. 1999
IIIrd International Congress of Centre d’ Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique (C.E. R.G.A.) (Tripolis, Greece, 17-19.05.1991: L’ élément orgiastique dans la Grece anciene.
International Congress , Paris , 3- 10. 09. 1993: PSYCHANODIA. Le phénomène d’ extase dans le monde greco-romain .
XVII Congress of International Association of History of Religions (XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions [ I. A. H. R. ], Mexico City, 05-12.08.1995.
IInd International Congress of Mediterraneum (Mediterraneum: Cristianesimo Islam ed Ebraismo. Riti ed Etica. Bertinoro [Bologna, Ιταλίας] 03- 07.11 1996.
International Congress in Salerno (Italy), in memorian of Prof. Ugo Bianchi: (UGO BIANCHI: Una vita per la storia delle Religioni. Giornate di studio all’ Università di Salerno, Sala dei Consigli, 14 - 16 Aprile 1997).
IVth International Congress International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS) (Berlin), organised by Berlin - Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademievorhaben Turfankommision 14-18. July 1997.
Congress at University of Vermont, U.S.A. in of the retirement of Walter [«Ted»] Brennenman Jr, Vermont: (Borderlands: The Phenomenology of Boundaries as a System. 16 - 17. 04. 1999.).
Congress of International Research Programm in Verona (Italy): (Gemme Magiche e Cultura Ellenistica. Università degli Studi Di Verona. Dipartimento di Disciplina Storiche - Artistiche e Geographiche, Verona 22-23 ottobre 1999.
Congress of XVIIIrd of the International Association for the History of Religion» [I. A. H. R.] (XVIIIth Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, , August 05-12 2000: «History of Religions : Origins and Visions
Congress of the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) (European Association for the Study of Religions. First Meeting of the Committee, Themes and Problems in the History of Religions in Contemporary Europe Messina, Italy 30-31 Marzo 2001.
IIIrd International Congress of European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR [ IAHR Special Conference]) Bergen της Νορβηγίας (08-10 May 2003) : The Globalisation and the Localization of Religion”.
XIX Congress of International Association for the History of Religion» (I. A. H. R.) (19th Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions,Tokyo, Japan 24 March - 30 March 2005: "Religion: Conflict and Peace".
IIIrd International Congress of Les Études Isiaques ,Leiden της Ολλανδίας (11-14 Μαΐου 2005): «Nile into Tiber. Egypt in the Roman World.
International Research Meeting in Rome, (09-12 June Ιουνίου 2005) among the Universities of Praetoria South Africa, North America and Canada«Redescribing Graeco-Roman Antiquity: On Religion and history of Religion».
International Research Meeting in Paris (France) of Programme Socrates: «The Concept of God in Europe’s Global Religious Dialogue III: Translating God(s): Thinking the Divine in Interreligious Encounter (2004-2005: «Co-existence between Christians and Hinduists in a pluralistic Indian Environment».
I Meeting of International Association of the Cognitive Studies (University of Aarhus, Denmark): Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture.
Annual Congress of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (18-21. 11. 2006): Redescribing Graeco-Roman Religions.
European Congress of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Vienna (Austria) (22-26 .07.Ιουλίου): Graeco-Roman Religions.
International Research Meeting of Programm EURESIS Net, «Euresis», Louvain–la-Neuve, Belgique (08-10 May 2008): «Teaching and Research on State and Religions in the Scope of EU». ,
VIII Congress of European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR [Special Conference of the Inrenational Association for the History of Religion]) Brno, Czech Rep Republic (07-11.09. 2008): «Time of Decline, Time of Hope. Scientific, Cultural and Political Engagement of the Study of Religions».
Annual Congress of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) στη Boston,U.S.A. (21-25 November 2008: ) «Redescribing Graeco-Roman Religions».
IX International Congress of European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR [Special Conference of the International Association for the History of Religion]), Messina, Italy (07-11. 09. 2008): "Religion in the History of European Culture"».
XX congress of International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) (XXth Quinquennial World Congress of International Association for the History of Religions , Toronto, Ont. Canada (15- 25. 08. 2010): Religion as human Phaenomenon.
III Special Meeting of International Congress of Cognitive Studies (16-18.08. 2010) during the XX congress of International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) (XXth Quinquennial World Congress of International Association for the History of Religions , Toronto, Ont. Canada (15- 25. 08. 2010): New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion.
X International Congress of European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR [Special Conference of the International Association for the History of Religion],Budapest, Hungary (3-6. 09. 2011): Connecting History, Astrology and Cognition.
First International Meeting of the Research Programme Ancient Religions and Cognition (University of London, U.K. 22-24. 07. 2013)
D. 1982- 1984: Member of the Editioral Group of Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt (ANRW), edited by W. Haase and H. Temporini.
1990- : Member of the Research Programme MENTOR and Centre d’ Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique (C.E.R.G.A) (Liege, Belgium).
1995- 2000: Mermber of the Research Programme (with Prof. L.H. Martin, University of Vermont, U.S.A), The Wandering of Homo Hellenisticus during the Graeco-Roman Age.
1998- 2004: Mermber of the Research Programme Sylloge Gemmarum Gnosticarum (Universities of Vernona –Roma and Messina, Italy. )
1998 - : Member of the Research Programme Redescribing Graeco-Roman Religions, (University of Praetoria, South Africa – Universities of U.S.A and Canada).
2012: Member of the Special Meeting / Consultation of International Association for the History of Religions (University of Aarhus) (01-03. 07): The Future of the Scientific Study of Religion.
2012- : Member of the Research Programme, Ancient Religions and Cognition (Universities of Nottingham, Liverpool, Oxford and Cambridge, U.K.- Aarhus, Denmark).
2013 - : Member of the Research Programme, Corpus Monumentorum Mithriacorum (CMM) (Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa [University of Paris], Christian Witschel [University of Heidelberg], Richard Gordon [University of Erfurt.
2013 -: Member of the Research Programme, Social Networking and the Ancient Religions (Universities, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Universities of Nottingham)
BOOKS- ARTICLES - REVIEWS
A. Το νερό και το αίμα στις μυστηριακές λατρείες της ελληνορωμαϊκής εποχής , Diss. Thessaloniki 1988.
«Δήμητρα Καρποφόρος»: Θρησκεία και αγροτική οικονομία του αρχαιο-ελληνικού κόσμου (Θρησκειολογία, 17), Athens: Hellenika Grammata, 1998.
Ἶσις καρποτόκος. Τομός Α΄: Οικουμένη. Προλεγόμενα στον συγκρητισμό των ελληνιστικών χρόνων, Thessaloniki: Vanias Publications, Εκδόσεις Βάνιας, 2003.
P.Pachis, Religion and Politics in the Graeco-Roman World. Redescribing the Isis-Sarapis Cult, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, 2010.
Η λατρεία της Ίσιδας και του Σάραπι. Από την τοπική στην οικουμενική κοινωνία, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, 2010.
Οι “ανατολικές λατρείες” της ελληνορωμαϊκής εποχής. Συμβολή στην Ιστορία και τη Μεθοδολογία της Έρευνας, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, 2010.
Religion and Politics in the Graeco-Roman World. Redescribing the Isis-Sarapis Cult, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, 2010
A1. L. H. Martin - P. Pachis (eds), Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Graeco - Roman Religion. Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, 2000, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2003.
L. H. Martin - P. Pachis (eds), Hellenisation, Empire and Globalisation: Lessons from Antiquity. Acts of the Panel Held During the I3rd Congress of European Association for the Study of Religion, Bergen, Norway 8-10 May 2003, Thessaloniki:Vanias Publications, 2003.
L. H. Martin - idem (eds.), Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World: A cognitive Modeling of History of Religious Research. Acts of the Panel held during the XIX Congress of the International Association of History of Religions (IAHR), Tokyo,Japan, March 2005, Thessaloniki: Vanias Publications, 2009
P. Pachis – D. Wiebe (eds.), Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Stusuy of Sciences. Essays in Honor of Luther H. Martin, Thessaloniki:Barbounakis Publications, 2010.
B. «Kernophoros», Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni (n. s. VIII, 1) L (1984), 126 - 129.
«Il significato e il ruolo del sangue nei rituali del culto Greco-Romano», Atti della V Settimana di Studi ‘Sangue e Antropologia. Riti e culto (Roma 1984), Roma: Edizioni Pia Unione Preziosissimo Sangue, 1987, vol. Ι, pp. 261 - 271.
«Η κάθαρση στα Ελευσίνια Μυστήρια: Προπαρασκευαστικές τελε-τουργίες», Epistêmonikê Epetêrida tês Theologikês Scholês toy Aristoteleiou Panapistimiou Thessalonikis. Nea Seira, vol. I, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 197-257.
«The Cult of Mithras in Thessalonica», Studies in Mithraism. Papers associa-ted with the Mithraic Panel organized of the XVIth Congress of International Association of Religions, Rome 1990, edited by J. R. Hinnells (Storia delle Religioni, 9), Roma: L’ «Erma di Bretschneider», 1994, pp. 229 - 255.
Γαλλαῖον Κυβέλης ὀλόλυγμα. L’ Élément orgiastique dans le culte de Cybèle», Cybele, Attis and Related Cults. Essays in Memory of M. J. Vermaseren (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 131), Leiden: Brill, 1996, pp. 193-222.
«Extra imperium et religionem nulla salus. Die Religionspolitik des römischen Staates gegen die Manichäer», ΚΑΙΡΟΣ. Timêtikos Tomos ston Kathêgetê D. Ath. Doiko Αφιέρωμα στον Καθηγητή Δαμιανό Αθ. Δόϊκο (Epistêmonikê Epetêrida tês Theologikês Scholês toy Aristoteleiou Panapistimiou Thessalonikis. Nea Seira), vol. 4, 1, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 815 - 828.
«Sacra publica - sacra peregrina: Επίσημη παραδοσιακή θρησκεία και ανα-τολικές λατρείες στη Ρώμη των ελληνορωμαϊκών χρόνων», Epistêmonikê Epetêrida tês Theologikês Scholês toy Aristoteleiou Panapistimiou Thessalonikis. Nea Seira) (Timêtiko Afierôma ston Kathêgetê N. Gr. Zachaopoulo), vol. 7, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 223-252.
«Crossing the Boundaries and Initiation in the Hellenistic Mystery Cults», Epistêmonikê Epetêrida tês Theologikês Scholês toy Aristoteleiou Panapistimiou Thessalonikis. Nea Seira vol.10, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 187-220.
«Ugo Bianchi e il Mitraismo», in: G. Casadio (ed.), Ugo Bianchi. Una vita per la storia delle religioni (Bibliotheca di Storia delle Religioni, 3), Roma: Editrice “Il Calamo”, 2002, pp. 219-231.
«The Hellenistic Age as an Age of Propaganda. The Case of Isis Areta-logies», in: L. H. Martin - P. Pachis (eds), Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Graeco - Roman Religion. Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, 2000, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2003, pp. 97- 126.
«Η περιπλάνηση του ατόμου κατά τη διάρκεια της ελληνορωμαϊκής επο-χής», Epistêmonikê Epetêrida tês Theologikês Scholês toy Aristoteleiou Panapistimiou Thessalonikis. Nea Seira) (Timêtiko Afierôma ston Kathêgetê N. Matsouka), vol. 12, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 273- 323.
“‘Manufacturing Religion’ in the Hellenistic Age: The Case of Isis-Demeter Cult”, in: L. H. Martin - P. Pachis (eds), Hellenisation, Empire and Globalisation: Lessons from Antiquity. Acts of the Panel Held During the I3rd Congress of European Association for the Study of Religion, Bergen, Norway 8-10 May 2003, Thessaloniki:Vanias Publications, 2003, pp. 163-207 = P.Pachis, Religion and Politics in the Graeco-Roman World. Redescribing the Isis-Sarapis Cult, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, 2010, σελ. 21-74