Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Religious studies

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Elaine Pagels, American Religious Historian
(1943 - )

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Name: Elaine Pagels
Birth: February 13, 1943, Palo Alto, California, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American religious historian; The Gnostic Gospels; Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity; Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

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Huston Smith, American Religious Studies Scholar
(1919-2016)

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Name: Huston Smith
Birth: May 31, 1919, Suzhou, China
Death: December 30, 2016, Berkeley, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American religious studies scholar; The World's Religions; Why Religion Matters; The Wisdom of Faith with Bill Moyers

Mircea Eliade, Romanian Historian of Religion
(1907-1986)

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Name: Mircea Eliade
Birth: March 13, 1907, Bucharest, Romania
Death: April 22, 1986, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language: Romanian, French, English
Who he was: Romanian historian of religion, philosopher, and fiction writer; Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy; Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return; The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion; From Primitives to Zen

Max Weber, German Sociologist and Philosopher
(1864-1920)

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Name: Karl Emil Maximilian Weber
Known as: Max Weber
Birth: April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Germany
Death: June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German sociologist and philosopher; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism; The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism; Ancient Judaism; Economy and Society
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

James George Frazer, Scottish Anthropologist
(1854-1941)

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Name: James George Frazer
Birth: January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Death: May 7, 1941, Cambridge, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: Scottish anthropologist; mythology and comparative religion, especially The Golden Bough
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)

R. H. Tawney, English Historian
(1880-1962)

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Name: Richard Henry Tawney
Known as: R. H. Tawney
Birth: November 30, 1880, Kolkata, India
Death: January 16, 1962, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English historian, critic, and educator; Religion and the Rise of Capitalism; The Acquisitive Society; Equality
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990)

Aldous Huxley, English Writer
(1894-1963)

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Name: Aldous Huxley
Birth: July 26, 1894, Godalming, UK
Death: November 22, 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English short story writer, novelist and philosopher; Brave New World; Island; Point Counter Point; The Doors of Perception; The Perennial Philosophy
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; CA; Bloom; GC

Karen Armstrong, British Religion Writer
(1944 - )

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Name: Karen Armstrong
Birth: November 14, 1944 (age 71), Worcestershire, UK
Language: English
Who she is: British religion writer; A History of God; The Battle for God; The Case for God

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Joseph Campbell, American Mythologist and Writer
(1904-1987)

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Name: Joseph Campbell
Birth: March 26, 1904, White Plains, New York, USA
Death: October 30, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American mythologist, writer, and lecturer who wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces; the four-part Masks of God; The Mythic Image; A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living; The Power of Myth

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, French Anthropologist
(1908-2009)

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Name: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Birth: November 28, 1908, Brussels, Belgium
Death: October 30, 2009, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French anthropologist who wrote Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics); La Pensée Sauvage (The Savage Mind); Le Cru et le Cuit (The Raw and the Cooked); Myth and Meaning
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2); Bloom

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Rudolf Otto, German Theologian
(1869-1937)

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Name: Rudolf Otto
Birth: September 25, 1869, Peine, Germany
Death: March 6, 1937, Marburg, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German theologian and religious scholar whose best-known work was The Idea of the Holy

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