Bruce Lincoln
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Bruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
His primary scientific concern has been the study of Hinduism. His work within this field and others has made him famous witihin the scientific community as his work deal extensivly with methodological problems.
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[edit] Education
Ph.D. (University of Chicago) B.A. (Haverford College)
While at the University of Chicago, he was a student of Mircea Eliade
[edit] Awards
American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2000 for Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship.
Gordon J. Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press in 2002 for Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship.
[edit] Books
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship (2000)
Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 (2002)
La politique du paradis perse (Paris: Paul Geuthner) (forthcoming 2007)
Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with an appendix on Abu Ghraib (University of Chicago Press) (forthcoming 2007).
[edit] Source
Professor Lincoln's page on the University of Chicago website
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