Frankfurter (university of new hampshire)
David Frankfurter, professor of religious studies and history at the University of New Hampshire, will present “Exorcising the World: New Perspectives on Christianization and Culture” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21, in Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center’s Benes Room B.
Frankfurter is the author of numerous articles on apocalypticism, magic, Christianization, demonology, and violence in antiquity, especially in Roman and late antique Egypt. His current research concerns the circumstances under which Christian ideas and symbols were brought together with native Egyptian traditions.
Frankfurter earned a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, a master’s of theological studies from Harvard Divinity School, and master’s and doctorate degrees from Princeton University. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Advanced Institute at Princeton.
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He won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion for “Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance” and “Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History”. He also wrote “Elijah in Upper Egypt”.
Hamilton Williams Campus Center — the green roofed building — is located in the central portion of the Ohio Wesleyan campus in downtown Delaware, Ohio.
