List of religion scholars

The following is a list of scholars of religious studies

* Karen Armstrong, author of "A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam"
*Miguel Asín Palacios, Spanish Arabist, work on the mutual influence between Christianity & Islam.
* Robert Baker Aitken, author of numerous academic books on Zen Buddhism
* Herbert Berg, scholar of Islamic origins
* Peter Berger, author of "The Sacred Canopy"
* Philippe Borgeaud, author of "Aux origines de l'histoire des religions"
* Pascal Boyer, author of "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought"
* Francis Brassard, author of "The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatra"
* Karen McCarthy Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn"
* John Corrigan, co-author of "Religion in America", editor of the "Chicago History of American Religion" book series (University of Chicago Press)
* Frank M. Cross, emeritus professor Harvard Divinity School, interpreter of the Dead Sea Scrolls
* Ioan P. Culianu, author of "The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions" and "Out of This World"
* Daniel Deleanu, author of "Wor(l)d Religions", "The Logoarchetype", and "The Islamic Jesus"
* Wendy Doniger (formerly published as Wendy O'Flaherty) is a leading researcher in Hinduism among other topics on religion. She teaches at the University of Chicago.
* Emile Durkheim, author of "The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life", a seminal work on sociology of religion
* H. Byron Earhart
* Mircea Eliade, author of "The Sacred and the Profane"
* Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
* James George Frazer, author of "The Golden Bough"
* Sigmund Freud, author of "Totem and Taboo"
* Rajmohan Gandhi, author of "Revenge and Reconciliation"
* Arnold van Gennep
* Anthony Giddens
* René Girard, whose theological works include "Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World"
* Justo Gonzalez, author of "The Story of Christianity" and a leading figure in Hispanic theology
* Wouter Hanegraaff, author of "New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought"
* Friedrich Heiler
* Steven Heine, scholar of East Asian Buddhism, especially Zen and Dogen
* Harvey Hill, author of "The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion"
* James T. Houk, author of "Spirits, Blood, and Drums: The Orisha Religion of Trinidad"
* Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Mules and Men" "Hoodoo in American"
* William James, author of "The Varieties of Religious Experience"
* Carl Jung
* Joseph M. Kitagawa
* Klaus Klostermaier
* Hans Küng, Catholic theologian, author of "Tracing the Way. Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions"
* Gary Lease, author of "Odd fellows": Modernism, National Socialism, and German Judaism"
* Gerardus van der Leeuw
* Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago), author of "Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11", "Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship" and "Discourse and the Construction in Society"
* Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski
* Martin E. Marty (University of Chicago), author of the series "Modern American Religion", editor of "The Fundamentalism Project"
* Russell T. McCutcheon (University of Alabama), author of "Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion" and "Manufacturing religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia"
* Jeff McKenzie, author of "Hail Orisha: A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
* Meredith McGuire author of "Religion: The Social Context"
* John Macquarrie Christian Existentialist and Systematic Theologian
* Gustav Mensching, most important pupil of Rudolf Ott, Prof. for Comparative Religion, Bonn University
Josef W. Meri
* George Foot Moore, scholar and theologian, author of "History of Religions" (two wolumes - 1914, 1919) and "Judaism" (two volumes, 1927)
* Glen H. Mullen
* Friedrich Max Müller, editor of "Sacred Books of the East"
* Aihwa Ong
* Rudolf Otto, author of "The Idea of the Holy"
* William E. Paden (University of Vermont), author of "Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion" and "Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion"
* Elaine Pagels, author of "The Gnostic Gospels"
*Geoffrey Parrinder former professor at King's College London and author of "What World Religions Teach Us" (1968)
* F. E. Peters, Professor at New York University and author of numerous books on Christianity, Judaism and Islam
* Rosemary R. Ruether
* Wilhelm Schmidt
* Arvind Sharma, author of "Women in World Religions"
* Rosalind Shaw
* Christian Smith, author of "Soul Searching: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers"
* Huston Smith, author of "The World's Religions"
* Jonathan Z. Smith (University of Chicago), author of "Map is Not Territory"; "Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown" and "To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual"
* William Robertson Smith, Scotish theologian, early work in the "higher criticism" of the Bible.
* Ninian Smart, author of "Dimensions of the Sacred"
* Nathan Söderblom
* Michael Stausberg
* Ivan Strenski
* John Shelby Spong, author "The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love" and other works
* Hue Tam Ho Tai
* S.J. Tambiah, author of "World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background"
* Ann Taves (University of California, Santa Barbara), author of "Fits, Trances, and Visions."
* Einar Thomassen
* Toulmin, Joshua (1740-1815), English radical Dissenting minister
* Edward Burnett Tylor
* Joachim Wach
* James Webb, author of "The Occult Underground" and "The Harmonious Circle".
* Max Weber
* Mudaliyar L.C. Wijesinha
* Meer Abdullah Harun
* Zakir Naik
* Sri Atul Krishna Goswami
* Sri Sribhuti Krishna Goswami
* Sri Pundrik Goswami