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 was for many years the study of Indo-European religion. His work within this field and others made him famous within the scientific community as his work came to criticize the ideological presuppositions of research on purported Indo-European origins. Over the last decade or so, his work has dealt extensively with methodological problems, not least issues concerning religion, power and politics.

Contents 1 Education 2 Awards 3 Books 4 Source

[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

• Discourse and the Construction of Society (1989)
• Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice (1991)
• 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, 2007).

[edit] Source

• Professor Lincoln's page on the University of Chicago website