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Researcher
Danny Praet
- Keywords:ancient philosophy, early Christianity, ancient religion, medieval philosophy
- Disciplines:Comparative study of religion, Rhetoric, Study of Christianity, Literatures in Greek, History of religions, churches and theology, Literatures in Latin, History of philosophy, History of ideas
Affiliations
- Department of Philosophy and moral sciences (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2001 → Today - Department of Latin and Greek (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 1997 → 30 Sep 2001 - Department of Romance languages (other than French) (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 1993 → 30 Sep 1997
Projects
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- Light from the Orient / Light on the OrientFrom1 May 2021 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: BOF - various
- FWO Sabbatical Prof. Danny PraetFrom1 Feb 2021 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO Prices and sabbaticals (before FWO undefined)
- “Sophist” (σοφιστής), “wise man” (σοφός) and “philosopher” (φιλοσοφός): the Origin of a Nomenclature, from Classical Greece to Imperial Rome and Ancient ArmeniaFrom1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Views on Women in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Rushd in context.From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Modern Germans, Ancient Jews: Political Representations of Early Judaism in the German-Speaking Lands of the 19th CenturyFrom1 Oct 2017 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- Alfred Loisy as a comparative historian of religions. An investigation of Loisy’s position within early 20th century and current comparative methodologyFrom1 Oct 2012 → 12 May 2020Funding: FWO fellowships, BOF - Other initiatives
- Junior Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship Rey SarahFrom1 Feb 2012 → 31 Aug 2012Funding: FWO visiting post-doctoral fellowship
- : Sacred Fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique hagiography.From1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Orientalism and Franz Cumont (1868-1947): his views on U+201CEastU+201D and U+201CWestU+201D in the context of classical studies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryFrom1 Jan 2009 → 31 Dec 2014Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Christianity, the Oriental Religions and the Mystery Cults in the thought of Franz Cumont, and his work within the context of Liberal Theology and Modernism (Alfred Loisy)From1 Jan 2008 → 30 Dec 2013Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
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- Pastorale macht en zelf-technieken : Foucault en de ascese van de woestijnvaders(2023)
Authors: Danny Praet
Pages: 6 - 18 - Death and the maiden in Philostratus, about Apollonius of Tyana 4.45 : miracle, mystery or philosophical skepticism?(2022)
Authors: Danny Praet
Pages: 169 - 206 - In search of truth in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies : new approaches to a philosophical and rhetorical novel of Late Antiquity(2022)
Authors: Benjamin De Vos, Danny Praet
- From the dark Platonic Cave to the Vision of Beauty and the act of ὁμοίωσις θεῷ : the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies as a Late Antique philosophical narrative(2022)Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
Authors: Benjamin De Vos, Danny Praet
Pages: 221 - 259 - Biologie in het antieke Griekenland : van de eerste natuurwetenschappers tot de school van Aristoteles(2022)Edition: 2de, gewijzigde editie
Authors: Danny Praet, Johan Braeckman, Linda Van Speybroeck
Pages: 29 - 75 - The Pseudo-Clementines : title, genre and research questions(2022)Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
Authors: Benjamin De Vos, Danny Praet
Pages: 1 - 36 - Truth-telling, lying and false wisdom in the pseudo-clementine homilies : Simon Magus and Helen of Troy(2022)Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
Authors: Danny Praet, Benjamin De Vos
Pages: 189 - 220 - Doura-Europos / Franz Cumont(2020)
Authors: Danny Praet, Ted Kaizer, Annelies Lannoy
Number of pages: 1 - L’ Orient créé par Franz Cumont, ou l’ ambiguïté de sa présentation des religions orientales(2020)
Authors: Danny Praet, Bassir Amiri
Pages: 21 - 43 - Introduction : from conservation to re-evaluation : an interdisciplinary approach to the Ghent Altarpiece(2019)
Authors: Danny Praet, Maximiliaan Martens
Pages: 5 - 7