Bryan Rennie
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Bryan Rennie is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 historian of religions
History of religions
The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious experiences and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,000 years ago in the Near East. The prehistory of religion relates to a study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the...

, the Vira I. Heinz Professor of Religion at Westminster College
Westminster College, Pennsylvania
Westminster College is a liberal arts college located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1852, it is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church...

 in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
New Wilmington is a borough in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, first platted in 1824 and established as a borough on April 9, 1873. The population was 2,452 at the 2000 census...

. Known for his works on Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n scholar 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...

, Rennie was awarded the Mircea Eliade Centennial Jubilee Medal for contributions to the History of Religions by Romanian President
President of Romania
The President of Romania is the head of state of Romania. The President is directly elected by a two-round system for a five-year term . An individual may serve two terms...

 Traian Băsescu
Traian Basescu
Traian Băsescu is the current President of Romania. After serving as the mayor of Bucharest from June 2000 until December 2004, he was elected president in the Romanian Presidential Elections of 2004 and inaugurated on December 20, 2004...

 in 2006.

Education

University of Edinburgh
Faculty of Divinity
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Edinburgh, Scotland

Ph.D. in Religious Studies. Doctoral thesis (accepted 1991): "Mircea Eliade: Making Sense of Religion."

M.A. in Religious Studies. (1988) (summa cum laude). Master's Thesis: "W. C. Smith: the Historian of Religion as Theologian."

B.A. in Religious Studies (1977).

Selected works

  • 'The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade’s Understanding of Religion', Proceedings of the University of Chicago’s Conference on Mircea Eliade and Joachim Wach. London and New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2010): 197-213.

  • 'Myths, Models, and Metaphors: religion as model and the philosophy of science', Religion 39/4 (2009): 340-347.

  • Review of The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion edited by Robert A. Segal and The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion edited by John R. Hinnells. The Heythrop Journal, 50/3 (May 2009): 518-520.

  • 'Mircea Eliade: 'Secular Mysticism' and the History of Religions'. Religion, 38/4 (2008): 328-337.

  • Religion, Terror and Violence: Religious Studies Perspectives, co-edited with Philip L. Tite. London
    London
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    : Routledge, 2008.

  • The International Eliade. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 2007.

  • 'Iranian Eschatology and Middle Eastern Religion: The Absence of the Zoroastrian Tradition from Mainstream Anglophone Biblical and Religious Studies'. The Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion 36/1 (February, 2007): 3-7.

  • Review of The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge and Ideology by Daniel Dubuisson. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. The Journal of Religion
    The Journal of Religion
    The Journal of Religion is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press founded in 1882 as The American Journal of Theology. The journal "embraces all areas of theology as well as other types of religious studies ."...

    87/2 (2007): 315-16.

  • Review of The Study of Religion in a New Key: Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion by Jeppe Sinding Jensen. (David Brown Book Company) Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2003. Religion (forthcoming).

  • 'Heterophenomenology as Self-Knowledge' in Rethinking Religion 101: Praxis, Pedagogy and the Future of Religious Studies, Cambridge University Press
    Cambridge University Press
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     (forthcoming).

  • Mircea Eliade: A Critical Reader. London
    London
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    : Equinox Publishing, 2006.

  • 'Mircea Eliade: Apologia pro Opere Suo: An Inspection of Some Foundations', in Thinking about Religion: A Reader, edited by Ivan Strenski, Oxford: Blackwell (2006). Translated as 'Mircea Eliade: Apologia pro Opere Suo: Considerarea unor principii fundamentale', in Origini, 9/4-5 (May-June 2005): 11-14.

  • 'Mircea Eliade' in the Brill Dictionary of Religions, edited by Kocku von Stuckrad. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (2006).

  • 'An Encounter with Eliade,' and 'The Life and Works of Mircea Eliade,' in Encounters with Mircea Eliade, edited by Mihaela Gligor and Mac Linscott Ricketts, Cluj-Napoca
    Cluj-Napoca
    Cluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade...

    : Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, (2005) 199-202 and 203-216.

  • 'Mircea Eliade' in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Press (2005).

  • 'Eliade, Mircea (Further Considerations)' in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, Macmillan (2005).

  • 'Mircea Eliade: A Secular Mystic in the History of Religions?' Origini. Journal of Cultural Studies, 3/4, (2003): 42-54.

  • 'Compassion and Self-Awareness as Evidence of Insight.' The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 4/3 (2003).

  • 'Religion after Religion, History after History: Postmodern Historiography and the Study of Religions,' review essay of Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henri Corbin at Eranos by Steven Wasserstrom, Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick
    Peter Novick
    Peter Novick is an American historian, best known for writing That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life...

    , and Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe by Hayden White
    Hayden White
    Hayden White is a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe...

    . Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 15/3 (2003): 68-99.

  • Review of Journal, 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, by Mihail Sebastian
    Mihail Sebastian
    -Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...

    , Ivan R. Dee, 2000. Religion 32/2 (2002): 172-75.

  • 'Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Religion: Reconciling a Naturalistic Approach to the Study of Religion with the Belief of the Believer.' Origins: Caiete Silvane, Journal of Cultural Studies, 2 (2002): 15-21, also published in Archaeus VI/1-2 (2002):167-182.

  • 'Il n'y a pas un Solution de la Continuité: Eliade, Historiography, and Pragmatic Narratology in the Study of Religion.' ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
    McGill University
    Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

    , 30 (2002): 115-137.

  • 'Count Your Blessings: A Simplified Introduction to the History of Numbering.' The Westminster College Inquiry Reader, Tapestry Press, 2001.

  • Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade, editor. State University of New York Press, 2001.

  • 'Understanding Theory: A Response to Robert Segal.' Culture and Religion, 1/2 (2000): 289-292.

  • 'A Response to ‘Mircea Eliade, Postmodernism, and the Problematic Nature of Representational Thinking’ by Carl Olson,' Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 12/3 (2000): 422-425.

  • 'Manufacturing McCutcheon: The Failure of Understanding in the Academic Study of Religion.' Culture and Religion 1/1 (May 2000): 105-112.

  • Review of Theorizing about Myth by Robert Segal, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Culture and Religion 1/1 (May 2000): 149-150.

  • Review of Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade by Douglas Allen, Garland Press, 1998. Religion 30/2 (April, 2000): 208-210.

  • Review of Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia by Russell McCutcheon, Oxford University Press, 1997. Zygon, 35/2 (June 2000): 455-457.

  • 'The View of the Invisible World: An Elaboration on Ninian Smart's Analysis of the Dimensions of Religion and of Religious Experience.' Review Essay. The Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 28/3 (1999): 63-68.

  • Review of East-West Encounters in Philosophy and Religion, edited by Ninian Smart and B. Srinivasa Murthy, Longbeach Publications, 1996. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 38/2, 1999.

  • 'Manufacturing the Sui Generis Discourse: A Response to Russell McCutcheon's Review of Reconstructing Eliade.' Religion 28/4 (1998): 413-414.

  • 'Mircea Eliade,' in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward Craig (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 1998, Volume 3, 260-263.

  • 'Actualitatea lui Mircea Eliade' (In English--responses to the editor's questions about Eliade). Origini: A Review of Literature, Ideas, and the Arts, Vol. 1, Nov.-Dec. 1997, pp. vii & ix.

  • 'Memory, Identity, and Imagination: Imagining the Past and Remembering Destiny,' in Memory, History, and Critique. European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the 6th International ISSEI Conference at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 1996, eds. Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor.

  • Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. Translated into Romanian by Mirella Balta, Gabriel Stanescu, and Stefan Stoenescu as Reconsiderandu-l Pe Mircea Eliade: O noua viziune asupra religiei, Criterion Publishing, 1999.

  • 'Mircea Eliade: coupable jusqu'à preuve du contraire?' Jurnalul Literar nr. 13-16 (May-June 1994): 2.

  • 'The Religious Creativity of Modern Humanity: Some Observations on Eliade's Unfinished Thought.' Religious Studies 31/2 (1995): 221-235. Translated by Raluca Podocea as: 'Creativitatea religioas a umanitii moderne,' Jurnalul Literar nr. 9-12 (aprilie 1994): 4-5.

  • 'The Diplomatic Career of Mircea Eliade: a Response to Adriana Berger.' Religion 22/4 (1992): 375-392. Translated by Lidia Rosu as: 'Cariera diplomatica a lui M. Eliade--un raspuns Adrianei Berger,' Jurnalul Literar (Bucharest
    Bucharest
    Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

    ) nr. 5-8 (feb-mar 1993): 1, 4-5.

  • Reviews of Other Peoples' Myths by Wendy Doniger and Metaphorical Worlds by Samuel R. Levin. Style, 24/4, Winter 1990.

  • 'Kali: the Terrible Goddess of Hindu Tantra.' The Journal of Religious Studies, Patiala, University of the Punjab
    University of the Punjab
    University of the Punjab , colloquially known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The University of the Punjab is the oldest and biggest University of Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its...

    , 12/2 (Autumn 1989):27-34.
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