Jorg Rupke was Chair of Comparative Religion at the University of Erfurt from 1999 to 2015 and is now permanent Fellow for Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center. He is also co-director of the Research Group 'Religious Individualization in Historical Perspective' and director of the ERC research project 'Lived Ancient Religion'. Since 2012 he has been a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities ('Wissenschaftsrat') and since 2013 Vice-Director of the Max Weber Centre. His authored books include Rituals in Ink (2004); The Religions of the Romans (2007); Fasti sacerdotum (2008);