List of religion scholars
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The following is a list of scholars of religious studies
- Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Miguel Asín Palacios, Spanish Arabist, work on the mutual influence between Christianity & 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
- Philippe Borgeaud, author of "Aux origines de l'histoire des religions"
- 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 Vodou 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)
- Frank M. Cross, emeritus professor Harvard Divinity School, interpreter of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- 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
- Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
- James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough
- Sigmund Freud, author of Totem and Taboo
- Rajmohan Gandhi, author of Revenge and Reconciliation
- Arnold van Gennep
- Anthony Giddens
- René Girard, whose theological works include Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Justo Gonzalez, author of The Story of Christianity and a leading figure in Hispanic theology
- Wouter Hanegraaff, author of New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
- Friedrich Heiler
- 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
- William James, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Carl Jung
- Joseph M. Kitagawa
- Klaus Klostermaier
- Hans Küng, Catholic theologian, author of Tracing the Way. Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions
- Gary Lease, author of "Odd fellows": Modernism, National Socialism, and German Judaism
- Gerardus van der Leeuw
- 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
- Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski
- 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
- George Foot Moore, scholar and theologian, author of History of Religions (two wolumes - 1914, 1919) and Judaism (two volumes, 1927)
- Glen H. Mullen
- Friedrich Max Müller, editor of Sacred Books of the East
- Aihwa Ong
- Rudolf Otto, author of The Idea of the Holy
- 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
- Wilhelm Schmidt
- 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
- William Robertson Smith, Scotish theologian, early work in the "higher criticism" of the Bible.
- Ninian Smart, author of Dimensions of the Sacred
- Nathan Söderblom
- 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
- Joachim Wach
- James Webb, author of The Occult Underground and The Harmonious Circle.
- Max Weber
- Mudaliyar L.C. Wijesinha
- Meer Abdullah Harun
- Zakir Naik
- Sri Atul Krishna Goswami
- Sri Sribhuti Krishna Goswami
- Sri Pundrik Goswami
