List of religion scholars

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The following is a list of religion scholars.

  • Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
  • Robert Baker Aitken, author of numerous academic books on Zen Buddhism
  • Herbert Berg, scholar of Islamic origins
  • Peter Berger, author of The Sacred Canopy
  • Pascal Boyer, author of Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
  • Francis Brassard, author of The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatra
  • Karen McCarthy Brown, author of Mama Lola: A Voodoo Priestess in Brooklyn
  • John Corrigan, co-author of Religion in America, editor of the "Chicago History of American Religion" book series (University of Chicago Press)
  • Ioan P. Culianu, author of The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions and Out of This World
  • Daniel Deleanu, author of Wor(l)d Religions, The Logoarchetype, and The Islamic Jesus
  • Wendy Doniger (formerly published as Wendy O'Flaherty) is a leading researcher in Hinduism among other topics on religion. She teaches at the University of Chicago.
  • Emile Durkheim, author of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, a seminal work on sociology of religion
  • H. Byron Earhart
  • Mircea Eliade, author of The Sacred and the Profane
  • Rajmohan Gandhi, author of Revenge and Reconciliation
  • René Girard, whose theological works include Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
  • Wouter Hanegraaff, author of New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
  • Steven Heine, scholar of East Asian Buddhism, especially Zen and Dogen
  • Harvey Hill, author of The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion
  • James T. Houk, author of Spirits, Blood, and Drums: The Orisha Religion of Trinidad
  • Zora Neale Hurston, author of Mules and Men Hoodoo in American
  • Joseph M. Kitagawa
  • Klaus Klostermaier
  • Hans Küng, Catholic theologian, author of Tracing the Way. Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions
  • Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago), author of Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship and Discourse and the Construction in Society
  • Martin E. Marty (University of Chicago), author of the series Modern American Religion, editor of The Fundamentalism Project
  • Russell T. McCutcheon (University of Alabama), author of Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion and Manufacturing religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
  • Jeff McKenzie, author of Hail Orisha: A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  • Meredith McGuire author of Religion: The Social Context
  • John Macquarrie Christian Existentialist and Systematic Theologian
  • Josef W. Meri
  • Glen H. Mullen
  • Friedrich Max Müller
  • Aihwa Ong
  • William E. Paden (University of Vermont), author of Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion and Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion
  • Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels
  • Geoffrey Parrinder former professor at King's College London and author of What World Religions Teach Us (1968)
  • F. E. Peters, Professor at New York University and author of numerous books on Christianity, Judaism and Islam
  • Rosemary R. Ruether
  • Arvind Sharma, author of Women in World Religions
  • Rosalind Shaw
  • Christian Smith, author of Soul Searching: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
  • Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions
  • Jonathan Z. Smith (University of Chicago), author of Map is Not Territory; Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown and To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual
  • Ninian Smart, author of Dimensions of the Sacred
  • Michael Stausberg
  • Ivan Strenski
  • John Shelby Spong, author The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love and other works
  • Hue Tam Ho Tai
  • S.J. Tambiah, author of World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background
  • Ann Taves (University of California, Santa Barbara), author of Fits, Trances, and Visions.
  • Einar Thomassen
  • Toulmin, Joshua (1740-1815), English radical Dissenting minister
  • Edward Burnett Tylor
  • James Webb, author of The Occult Underground and The Harmonious Circle.
  • Mudaliyar L.C. Wijesinha
  • Zakir Naik

[edit] Others

The following is not a list of religion scholars, but people who are relevant to the science of religion.

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