The research group brings together researchers from the following fields: Ancient Greek Philology/Religious Studies, Latin Philology, Theology (New Testament), English Literature, Medieval Latin Philology and History of Mythology, History of Natural Sciences and Philosophy of Science, Political Science and Modern German Literature.

The eight sub-projects cooperate with each other in different constellations. For instance, some of them are connected by shared thematic and conceptual concerns, such as creation (SP3, SP5, SP9), ideologies (SP1, SP6, SP8), issues of aesthetic representation (SP1, SP4, SP5, SP9) or scientific explanatory models (SP1, SP6 and SP7).