Irreverence and the Sacred
Critical Studies in the History of Religions
Edited by Hugh Urban and Greg Johnson
Author Information
Hugh B. Urban is a professor of religious studies and South Asian studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of nine books, including The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (2011) and Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement (2016).
Greg Johnson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition and co-editor of Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) (2017).
Contributors:
Stefan Arvidsson is a professor in the Study of Religions at Linnaeus University. He is the author of several books, including Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science (2006).
Claude Calame is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of numerous books, including Greek Mythology: Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction (English translation, 2009).
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of more than forty books, including, most recently, The Hindus: An Alternative History (2010), On Hinduism (2014), Redeeming the Kamasutra (2016), and The Ring of Truth (2017).
Kelly E. Hayes is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the author of Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil (2011).
Greg Johnson is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado. Boulder. He is the author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition (2007).
Jean Kellens is an Honorary Professor at the Collège de France. He is the author of numerous works on Indo-Iranian languages and religions, including Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism (2000).
Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State (2014), Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, 2nd Ed. (2014), and Politique du paradis: Religion et empire en Perse achéménide (2015).
Russell McCutcheon is a professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of numerous books, including Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia (1997) and Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion (2014).
Nicolas Meylan is a lecturer in the Institut Religions, Cultures, Modernité at the University of Lausanne and in the Faculty of Letters at the Université de Genève. He is the author of the forthcoming How to Deal with Kings: Discourses of Magic in Medieval Icelandic Polemics against the Kings in Norway.
S. Romi Mukherjee is an assistant professor at the Sciences Po-Paris. He is the author of Durkheim and Violence (2010).
Stefanie von Schnurbein is a professor of Modern Scandinavian Literatures at the Nordeuropa Institute, Humboldt Universität. She is the author of numerous works, including Religions als Kulturkritik: Neugermanisches Heidentum im 20. Jahrhundert (1992).
Ivan Strenski is Holstein Family and Community Professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of several books, including Why Politics Can't be Freed from Religion and The New Durkheim: Essays on Philosophy, Religious Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge.
Kathleen Self is an associate professor of Religious Studies at St. Lawrence University. Her research focuses on conversion in the Middle Ages, in particular the conversion of Iceland to Christianity.
Hugh B. Urban is a professor of Religious Studies and South Asian Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion (2003) and The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (2011).
Kevin Wanner is acting chair and a professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University.
