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Bruce Lincoln

Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School; also in the Committees on the Ancient Mediterranean World and the History of Culture, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Associate Faculty in the Departments of Anthropology and Classics

Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Bruce Lincoln emphasizes critical approaches to the study of religion. He is particularly interested in issues of discourse, practice, power, conflict, and the violent reconstruction of social borders. His research tends to focus on the religions of pre-Christian Europe and pre-Islamic Iran, but he has a notoriously short attention span and has also written on a wide variety of topics, including Guatemalan curanderismo, Lakota sun dances, Melanesian funerary rituals, Swazi kingship, the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre, Marco Polo, professional wrestling, and the theology of George W. Bush. His most recent publications include Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia; Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11; and Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, which won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2000 and the Gordon J. Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press in 2002. Scheduled to appear in 2008 is La politique du paradis perse (Paris: Éditions Harmattan).