WOAH List TEST

England, Britain, United Kingdom, medieval culture, Wars of the Roses, medieval art, politics, John Hardyng, kings, queens, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV, King Arthur, Chaucer, mythology, Shakespeare, Game of Thrones, mermaids, merfolk, Historical Writing in Medieval and Tudor Britain, Early English Drama, Anglo-Scottish Relations, Arthurian Literature, and Medieval Scribes.

Japan, Japanese history, Japanese culture, the divination industry, the beauty industry, linguistic anthropology,

Mediterranean World, Asia Minor, Roman Empire, North Africa, early Christianity, New Testament, Christian apocrypha, feminist hermeneutics, Augustine of Hippo, the development of the earliest churches (including “dissenting” movements) and of early Christian writings in their social and cultural environments. She also contributes to the scholarship on “engaged” methods of adult pedagogy. Church History, Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Christianity, Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, Gospels & The Historical Jesus, Pauline Studies, Social History of Early Christianity, Technology in Teaching.

Religion in the Roman Empire,
Roman religion
Church Fathers
Sacred virgins, virgin martyrs, male virgins
Gender, sexuality, asceticism and sanctity

The translation history of Virgil, imperial Latin literature including epic and tragedy, reception of Roman antiquity

Byzantium and the Arabs; bilinguals in the Middle Ages; Byzantine and Islamic science; the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453.

Roman History, War History, Romanization, Republic, Administration of Empire, Hispania

Athenian democracy; Politics in the Ancient World; attic Rhetoric; Greek Religion; Demosthenes.

Papyrology, "the political and social dimensions of Hellenistic literature (and its later reception) and ancient Greek fiction writing."
from https://classics.stanford.edu/people/susan-stephens on 8/24/17.

ancient military history, ancient intelligence and spying

Religionen des antiken Mittelmeerraums:

Polis-Religion und religiöser Pluralismus in der griechisch-römischen Kultur
Religion und philosophischer Diskurs
Gender
Religion in der Zweiten Sophistik

Methodologie und Forschungsgeschichte der Religionswissenschaft
Literatur und Religion
Gender Studies

Gospel studies: Gospel of Mark and Ancient Historiography; Pauline epistolography: Second Corinthians, Philippians; early Christian literary history: Ben Sira and Early Jewish Literature; Hermeneutics

Drawing upon a wide range of sources and theoretical perspectives in the fields of religion and literature, Professor Renger’s work focuses on the creation and dissemination of myths, legends, idols and icons in a variety of ancient and modern cultural contexts. Primarily, she is concerned with the Western classical tradition, with numerous articles and books that explore the continuing effects of Ancient Greek and Roman mythology and religion throughout history up to the present day. This work consistently centers on the use of mythological themes and motifs in literary texts, film and popular culture as well as in modern and contemporary forms of esotericism and alternative religion.

Another research area investigates dynamic tensions in the history of religions between Asia, Europe and the U.S. In particular, she is interested in cross-cultural interactions and their impact on religious agency as manifested both in society and literature. Of specific concern in this connection are charismatic teachers and leaders, their self-conception and attraction to followers, as well as the topics of discipleship and the transmission and transformation of religious and philosophical knowledge. Related to this, she specifically examines cultural transformations of Buddhism in the 20th and 21st centuries.