About
Richard Lim is a Research Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt. His research focuses on religious dualism and urbanity in the Roman West during Late Antiquity, examining how groups such as Gnostics, Manichaeans, and Neoplatonists interacted with urban spaces amid Christianization. He employs Mary Douglas’s Grid-and-Group theory alongside the Kolleg’s frameworks on religion and urbanity.
His project investigates how dualistic cosmologies influenced social practices and engagement with urban monumentality, contrasting these groups with mainstream Christian communities (Catholic, Donatist, Arian). This work seeks to refine heuristic models for understanding marginalized groups’ roles in Late Antique urban transformation.
No academic awards or grants are explicitly listed, though his affiliation with the Max-Weber-Kolleg indicates participation in interdisciplinary research initiatives. Contact details are not provided in the profile.
