{"id":9878,"date":"2022-05-27T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9878"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:12:59","slug":"dane-scott","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/dane-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Dane Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research areas:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>religions in the Roman empire, materiality, images and visual culture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dane is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Boston University specializing in the religions of the Roman Empire. His research examines the lived and material dimensions of ancient religion, with particular attention to how objects, images, and spaces shaped encounters with supernatural beings. He is an affiliate of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and was a 2023\u20132024 fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA).<\/p>\n<p>His dissertation, \u201cEncountering the Gods: The \u2018Dynamics of Iconicity\u2019 and the Power of Divine Images in the Roman Empire,\u201d supervised by David Frankfurter, examines how material objects like statues could come to be experienced and treated as manifestations of the gods. Through a series of case studies drawn across the Roman Empire, he develops a framework for understanding how ancient communities navigated the boundary between an image as an object and an image as divine presence, and how the images themselves seemed to disclose their own personhood to the people who approached them.<\/p>\n<p>Dane has taught in a wide variety of classes, from Introduction to Religion, Death and Immortality, Religions of Asia, and Roman History. He has written for <i>Religious Studies Review<\/i> and <i>Bible Odyssey<\/i>, and has also published in <i>Seshat: Global History Databank<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Select Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/arege-2025-0007\/html\">\u201cChaining Gods: Ritualized Coercion and the Excessive Agency of Bound Cult Images in the Ancient Mediterranean.\u201d<i>Archiv f\u00fcr Religionsgeschichte<\/u><\/i> 27, no. 1 (2025).<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/berestabooks.com\/books\/seshat-history-of-moralizing-religion-volume-2-world-survey\"> With Jennifer Larson, Jenny Reddish, and Daniel Hoyer. \u201cCentral Italy.\u201d In <i>Seshat History of Moralizing Religion<\/i>, vol. 2. Beresta Books, 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleodyssey.org\/articles\/smyrna\/\"> \u201cSmyrna\u201d <i>Bible Odyssey<\/i> (2024).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20524,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9878\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}