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Professor, Department of History, and Program in Comparative Literature
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Discourses on Religion; History of the Human Sciences (19th to 20th century); History of the Study of Religion; Critical Theory; Psychoanalysis
- PhD, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985
- MA, Religious Studies, Yale University, 1979
- BA, Philosophy, International Christian University, 1975
- The Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar, 2007
- Institute for Historical Studies Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2006-07
- Association of American Publishers 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Academic Publishing, for The Invention of World Religions, 2006
- American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grant, 2005
- Intersections Funding (with Gayle Rubin and Thomas R. Trautmann) in support of graduate seminar, “The Aryans.” College of Literature, Science and the Arts, 2005
- The University of Michigan Humanities Award, 2000
- The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism and Diversity. The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- “Our Master’s Voice: Friedrich Max Müller after a Hundred Years of Solitude.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 15: 4 (2003).
- “Troubles with Materiality: the Ghost of Fetishism in the Nineteenth Century.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42: 2 (April 2000).
- “Origin.” In Braun and McCutcheon, eds., Guide to the Study of Religion. London: Cassell, 1999.
- “From Empire to Utopia: Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon” Positions: East Asia Culture Critique 7: 2 (Fall 1999).
- “Culture.” In Mark C. Taylor, ed., Critical Terms for Religious Studies. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion. The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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