Field-Of-Study: Religion

Joyce Flueckiger is a professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University. She specializes in performance studies, anthropology of religion, and religions of South Asia, with a particular focus on gender. As the daughter of Mennonite missionaries, she grew up in India until the age of eighteen. She returned to the U.S. to attend

Jacob Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, teaches in the departments of East Asian Lanuages and Cultures and South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also an active member of Berkeley’s Group in Buddhist Studies.  He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University

Ann Taves is a scholar of religion whose research has focused for some time on how people, both historical and contemporary, interpret unusual, seemingly involuntary experiences in which people’s usual sense of self is disrupted by anomalous perceptions or sensations.  She is best known for two award winning books: Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion

Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis where he is part of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.  He is currently working on a project entitled “Public Atheism: An American History,” which examines the legal and political debates that atheists and nonbelievers have

I was born and raised in San Francisco and Kailua, Hawaii.  As a result, I developed many friendships with people of Asian origins during my youth, and consequently I cultivated a curiosity about Asian cultures.  I completed my undergraduate education at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, as a history major, writing a senior

I am a professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializing in the Hindu religious traditions of India.  After receiving a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado in 1976 and a Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 1984, I taught at the University of Arizona and

Bryan J. Cuevas is the John F. Priest Professor of Religion and Director of Tibetan Studies in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. He is a historian of religion and specialist in Buddhist traditions in premodern Tibet from the eleventh through the eighteenth century. His academic interests are inspired by a wide reading

Justin McDaniel studies ghosts and manuscripts in Asia. After living and researching in South and Southeast Asia for many years as a translator, archivist, amulet collector, volunteer teacher, and Buddhist monk. He returned to the States and received his PhD from Harvard University’s Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in 2003. Presently he teaches Buddhism

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri received his bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Religious Studies and his master’s and doctoral degrees in the Study of Religion from Harvard University.  He is currently Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His scholarship and teaching focus on the study of religion, the social and

Beginning with his scholarly training at Columbia University (where he earned his Ph.D. in Religion 1984), Professor Todd Lewis’ research and teaching has been interdisciplinary, linking anthropology, the history of religions, and Indology. His area of special expertise is Buddhist narratives and the role of merchants in Buddhist history. Professor Lewis is also one of