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

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Category (2003), The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (2008), and Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction (2008).

David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books, including Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (2007), Theology: A Very Short Introduction (2000), Self and Salvation: Being TransformedÂ(1999), The Shape of LivingÂ(1997), Meaning and Truth in 2 CorinthiansÂ(1988, 2008, with Frances M. Young), and Barth and God’s Story: Biblical Narrative and the Theological Method of Karl Barth in the Church DogmaticsÂ(1981, 2008). He also serves as Director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and is a member of the editorial board of Modern TheologyÂand Scottish Journal of Theology.

Judith Fox has a PhD in the Sociology of New Religious Movements and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She presently lives in Hyde Park, Chicago, raising one-year-old Zachary with her husband Richard.

Paul Gifford is Professor of African Religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. Among his publications are African Christianity: its Public Role (1998), Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy (2004), and Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya (2009).

Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA). He is the author or editor of fourteen books and over 100 articles on political philosophy, ethics, religious studies, environmentalism, and spiritual life, including Marxism 1844– 1990; Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change, and A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth.

Garrett Green is the Class of 1943 Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Connecticut College (New London, Connecticut). He is the author of Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination (1989, 1998) and Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity (2000). He translated and introduced Karl Barth,

On Religion: The Revelation of God as the Sublimation of Religion (2006).

Rosalind I. J. Hackett is Professor of Religious Studies and adjunct in anthropology at the University of Tennessee. She has published widely on religion in Africa; her latest book is

Proselytization Revisited: Right Talk, Free Markets, and Culture Wars (ed.) (Equinox 2008). In 2005 she was elected President of the International Association for the History of Religions (until 2010).

John R. Hinnells is Emeritus Professor at Liverpool Hope University and Honorary Research Professor at SOAS where he was founding head of the Department for the Study of Religion. He is also a Senior Member of Robinson College, Cambridge and life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. His main works on Zoroastrianism are Zoroastrians in Britain

(OUP, 1996); Zoroastrian and Parsi Studies (Ashgate 2000) and The Zoroastrian Diaspora (OUP, 2005). He edited the New Penguin Dictionary of Religions and the New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions (1997 and 1998). He is editor of the Routledge series Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.

Laurence R. Iannaccone is Professor of Ecoonomics at Chapman University. In more than fifty publications, Iannaccone has applied economic insights to study denominational

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growth, church attendance, religious giving, international trends, and many other aspects of religion and spirituality. He is currently writing two books on the economics of religion.

Darlene Juschka is Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Religious Studies. Several of her more recently published articles include ‘Deconstructing the Eliadean Paradigm: Symbol.’ In Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, eds. Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, 163–177. London: Equinox Publishers, 2008. Released in 2001 was her anthology Feminism in the Study of Religion: a Reader, while her newest text Political Bodies, Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender is scheduled for release in the fall of 2009 through Equinox Press.

Richard King is Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (USA). He is a specialist of classical Hindu and Buddhist thought, postcolonial approaches to the study of religion and the comparative study of mysticism. He is the author of four books: Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism (State University of New York Press, 1995), Orientalism and Religion, Postcolonial Theory, India and ‘the Mystic East’ (Routledge, 1999); Indian Philosophy. An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought

(Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and (co-authored with Jeremy Carrette) Selling Spirituality. The Silent Takeover of Religion (Routledge, 2005).

Kim Knott is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Leeds and Director of Diasporas, Migration and Identities, a strategic research programme funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her books include Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction, translated into a dozen languages, and The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis. She is currently working, with Seán McLoughlin, on an edited collection on

Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersections, and, with Thomas A. Tweed, on a sourcebook for the geography of religion.

Mary Ellen Konieczny is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. Her book manuscript (in progress),

The Spirit’s Tether: Religion, Work, and Family among American Catholics, is an ethnographic study exploring how religion shapes perceptions and practices of gender relations, sexuality and childrearing among middle class Catholics.

Gordon Lynch is Professor of Sociology of Religion and Director of the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was one of the founders of the UK Research Network for Theology, Religion and Popular Culture. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on religion and contemporary culture, including Understanding Theology and Popular Culture (Blackwell, 2005) and Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture (ed., IB Tauris, 2007).

Luther H. Martin is Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Hellenistic Religions (1987) and of numerous articles in this area of his historical specialization. He has also published widely in the field of theory and method in the study of religion, most recently, in the area of cognitive theory and historiographical method. In this latter area, he is co-editor of Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography (in press). He is currently President of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion.

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Seán McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and reports on religion and ethnicity, diaspora and identity amongst the Pakistani and Kashmiri heritage Muslims in Britain. Most recently, Dr McLoughlin has been the Principal Investigator on a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council network, From Diaspora to Multi-Locality: Writing British-Asian Cities (2006–2009), and is presently preparing a related co-edited volume. He is the co-editor of European Muslims and the Secular State (Ashgate, 2005).

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy at Bethel College. His written and edited books include Introducing Philosophy of Religion (Routledge), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Routledge), The Philosophy of Religion Reader (Routledge), The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, forthcoming).

Dan Merkur is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto and a Visiting Scholar in the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He has taught religious studies at five universities and published eleven books in the history and/or psychoanalysis of religion, including Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth (Routledge, 2005).

George Moyser is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont in the United States. He has published several books and numerous articles on the relationship of religion and politics in Europe including, Politics and Religion in the Modern World (Routledge), Church and Politics in a Secular Age (The Clarendon Press) (with Kenneth Medhurst), and Church and Politics Today (T and T Clark).

Henry Munson is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine. He is the author of The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family, Islam and Revolution in the Middle East, and Religion and Power in Morocco, all published by Yale University Press. His essays on the comparative study of militant religious conservatism have appeared in

Daedalus, Religion, Religion Compass, Britannica Online, The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, and The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion.

William E. Paden is Professor, Department of Religion, at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion (second edn, 2003), and Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion (second edn, 1994), as well as numerous articles on theory and method.

Martin Riesebrodt is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His earlier work has focused on fundamentalist movements and the sociology of Max Weber. Recently he has published an interpretative theory of religion (The Promise of Salvation. A Theory of Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. He is the author of, among other books, Theorizing About Myth (Massachusetts, 1999), and Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2004). He is the editor of, among other books,

The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion (Blackwell, 2006), and Myth: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2007).

Eric J. Sharpe, in his early career, taught at the Universities of Lancaster and Manchester. In 1977 he was appointed to the First Chair of Religious Studies in Australia, at the University of Sydney, which he held until his retirement in 1996. His publications in the

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fields of religious studies and missiology include Comparative Religion: A History (1975),

Understanding Religion (1983), Karl Ludvig Reichelt, Missionary, Scholar and Pilgrim (1984) and Nathan Söderblom and the Study of Religion (1990). Eric Sharpe died on 19 October, 2000.

Donald Wiebe is Professor of Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He is a co-founder of the North American Association for the Study of Religion and of the recently established Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion. His publications include Truth and Religion, Beyond Legitimation, The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought, and The Politics of Religious Studies.

John Wolffe is Professor of Religious History at the Open University, where he has contributed to numerous courses, and edited Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Coexistence

(Manchester UP, 2004). His other publications include God and Greater Britain: Religion and National Life in Britain and Ireland 1843–1945 (Routledge, 1994) and The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney (InterVarsity Press, 2006).