Religion
- Richard T. Antoun† – Professor (1989); Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University; stabbed to death by student in 2009
- Wendy Doniger – Historian of Religions (1978– )
- Mircea Eliade† – Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions (1958–1986), best known for his "myth of the Eternal Return" and his book The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.
- Joseph Kitagawa† – Historian of Religions
- Bruce Lincoln – Historian of Religions
- Charles Long – Historian of Religions
- David Tracy – Professor Emeritus of Theology (1970–); leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as Plurality and Ambiguity (University of Chicago Press, 1986).
- Joachim Wach† – Historian of Religions (1944–55)
- Christian K. Wedemeyer – Historian of Religions (2003– )
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)