Encyclopedia of Religion

Harvard Forum on Religion and

Ecology

Ecology and Religion

JOSEPHHARRIS

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of

English Literature and Professor of

Folklore, Harvard University

Germanic Religions

URSULAKING

Professor Emerita, Senior Research

Fellow and Associate Member of the

Institute for Advanced Studies,

University of Bristol, England, and

Professorial Research Associate, Centre

for Gender and Religions Research,

School of Oriental and African

Studies, University of London

Gender and Religion

DAVIDMORGAN

Duesenberg Professor of Christianity

and the Arts, and

Professor of Humanities and Art

History, Valparaiso University

Color Inserts and Essays

JOSEPHF. NAGY

Professor, Department of English,

University of California, Los Angeles

Celtic Religion

MATTHEWOJO

Obafemi Awolowo University

African Religions

JUHAPENTIKÄINEN

Professor of Comparative Religion, The

University of Helsinki, Member of

Academia Scientiarum Fennica,

Finland

Arctic Religions and Uralic Religions

TEDPETERS

Professor of Systematic Theology,

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

and the Center for Theology and the

Natural Sciences at the Graduate

Theological Union, Berkeley,

California

Science and Religion

FRANKE. REYNOLDS

Professor of the History of Religions

and Buddhist Studies in the Divinity

School and the Department of South

Asian Languages and Civilizations,

Emeritus, University of Chicago

History of Religions

GONZALORUBIO

Assistant Professor, Department of

Classics and Ancient Mediterranean

Studies and Department of History

and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania

State University

Ancient Near Eastern Religions

SUSANSERED

Director of Research, Religion, Health

and Healing Initiative, Center for the

Study of World Religions, Harvard

University, and Senior Research

Associate, Center for Women’s Health

and Human Rights, Suffolk University

Healing, Medicine, and Religion

LAWRENCEE. SULLIVAN

Professor, Department of Theology,

University of Notre Dame

History of Religions

WINNIFREDFALLERSSULLIVAN

Dean of Students and Senior Lecturer

in the Anthropology and Sociology of

Religion, University of Chicago

Law and Religion

TODSWANSON

Associate Professor of Religious Studies,

and Director, Center for Latin

American Studies, Arizona State

University

South American Religions

MARYEVELYNTUCKER

Professor of Religion, Bucknell

University, Founder and Coordinator,

Harvard Forum on Religion and

Ecology, Research Fellow, Harvard

Yenching Institute, Research Associate,

Harvard Reischauer Institute of

Japanese Studies

Ecology and Religion

HUGHB. URBAN

Associate Professor, Department of

Comparative Studies, Ohio State

University

Politics and Religion

CATHERINEWESSINGER

Professor of the History of Religions

and Women’s Studies, Loyola

University New Orleans

New Religious Movements

ROBERTA. YELLE

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University

of Toronto

Law and Religion

ERICZIOLKOWSKI

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious

Studies, Lafayette College

Literature and Religion

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