Andrew Durdin
About
Andrew Durdin (Ph.D., University of Chicago, History of Religions) studies the religions of the ancient Mediterranean, specializing in Roman religion, magic, early Christianity, and the historiography of ancient religion.
His first book, Beyond Magic in the Roman World: Reconstructing Cultural Alterity and Ritual Deviance (Cambridge University Press, 2026), pushes past the problematic category of “ancient magic” to develop a more historically nuanced account of how Romans conceptualized cultural alterity and ritual deviance.
Durdin teaches courses on world religions, Greek and Roman religions, the New Testament, and early Christianity, as well as graduate seminars on theory, method, and pedagogy in the academic study of religion.
Religions of the Roman Empire, Magic, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
