Bart D. Ehrman

male
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,...
Huston Smith

Huston Smith

male, 90 years old
Huston Cummings Smith (born May 31, 1919) is among the preeminent religious studies scholars in the United States. His work, "The Religions of Man"...
Paul Mirecki

Paul Mirecki

male
Paul Mirecki is Bible scholar and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas and the faculty advisor for the Society of...
James Tabor

James Tabor

male
James D. Tabor is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he has taught since 1989. He...
J. Gordon Melton

J. Gordon Melton

male, 67 years old
John Gordon Melton (b. September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of...
Ninian Smart

Ninian Smart

male, deceased (2001)
Additional biographical source: Ninian Smart. "Methods in My Life." Pp. 18-35 in "The Craft of Religious Studies", edited by Jon R. Stone. New...
Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger

female, 69 years old
Wendy Doniger (born November 20 1940) is an American professor of religion, active in international religious studies since 1973. Much of her work...
B. Alan Wallace

B. Alan Wallace

male
"B. Alan Wallace" is an author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter and Vajrayana practitioner interested in the intersections of...

John Bowker

male
John Westerdale Bowker (born July 30, 1935) is a professor of religious studies who has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster,...
Paula Fredriksen

Paula Fredriksen

female
Paula Fredriksen is a historian and a scholar of religious studies. She holds the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation...