Материал: The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion by John Hinnells

Contributors

Douglas Allen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maine. He served as President of Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 2001–2004, and is Series Editor of Lexington’s Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. Author and editor of thirteen books and over 100 book chapters and journal articles, his most recent books are Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror, and The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century.

Gregory D. Alles is Professor of Religious Studies at McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, USA. A past president of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, he is the editor of Religious Studies: A Global View (Routledge, 2008). He has recently been engaged in fieldwork among ādivāsī (indigenous) people in eastern Gujarat, India.

William Sims Bainbridge is the author of fifteen books, four textbook-software packages, and about 200 shorter publications in the social science of technology, information science, religion and culture. In 2006 he published God from the Machine, applying artificial intelligence techniques to understand religious cognition, and in 2007 he published Across the Secular Abyss and Nanoconvergence about the tensions between religion, cognitive science, social science, and emerging technologies.

Michael Barnes is Senior Lecturer and Reader in Interreligious Relations at Heythrop College in the University of London. He has written several books and a number of articles on Christianity and other faiths, notably Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (Cambridge: CUP 2002). He lives and works in Southall, West London, where he runs a small dialogue centre.

Jeremy Carrette is Professor of Religion and Culture and Head of Religious Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of numerous works on Foucault, William James and the politics of religious knowledge, including Selling Spirituality (London: Routledge, 2005), co-authored with Richard King. His most recent work is Religion and Critical Psychology: Religious Experience in the Knowledge Economy (London: Routledge, 2007) and he is the author of a forthcoming text William James: Belief, Experience and Truth (Equinox Press).

Thomas Dixon is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary University of London. His publications include From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological