Robert S. Ellwood

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Robert S. Ellwood (Normal, 1933) is an American academic, author and expert on world religions.

He was educated at the University of Colorado, Berkeley Divinity School and was awarded a PhD in History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 1967. He was Professor of World Religions at the University of Southern California from 1967 until 1997.[1]

Works

  • The Feast of Kingship: Accession Ceremonies in Ancient Japan (1973).
  • Introducing Religion: From Inside and Outside (1978; 2nd ed. 1983; 3rd ed. 1993).
  • Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America (1979).
  • Mysticism and Religion (1980).
  • An Invitation to Japanese Civilization (1980).
  • Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind (1982).
  • (with Richard Pilgrim), Japanese Religion: A Cultural Perspective (1984).
  • The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern (1994).
  • The Fifties' Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict (1997).
  • The Pilgrim Self: Traveling the Path from Life to Life (1997).
  • The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell (1999).
  • Introducing Japanese Religion (2008).
  • Myth (2008).
  • Tales of Darkness: The Mythology of Evil (2009).

Notes

  1. Profile at the University of Chicago.