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
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For many years his primary scholarly concern was the study of Indo-European religion, where 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, and issues concerning religion, power and politics.
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B.A. (Haverford College
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While at the University of Chicago, he was a student of Mircea Eliade
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
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For many years his primary scholarly concern was the study of Indo-European religion, where 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, and issues concerning religion, power and politics.
Education
Ph.D. (University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
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B.A. (Haverford College
Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...
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While at the University of Chicago, he was a student of Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...
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 AwardGordon J. Laing AwardThe Gordon J. Laing Award is conferred annually, by the University of Chicago's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press. The first award was given in 1963 and the...
from the University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including Critical Inquiry, and a wide array of...
in 2002 for Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship.
Books
- Priests, Warriors, and Cattle: A Study in the Ecology of Religions (University of California Press, 1981).
- Discourse and the Construction of Society (1989).
- Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice (1991).
- Authority: Construction and Corrosion (1995).
- Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship (2000).
- Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 (2002).
- Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with an appendix on Abu Ghraib (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
- Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
- La politique du paradis perse (Paris: Paul Geuthner) (forthcoming)