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2 unusual facts about History of religions


Mateus Soares de Azevedo

Mateus Soares de Azevedo (born 1959) is a Brazilian historian of religions, Islamologist, and journalist, who has written several books on the philosophy of religions.

Mateus Soares de Azevedo has a graduate degree in international relations from George Washington University and holds a Masters degree in History of religions from the University of São Paulo, with a thesis on the contemporary relevance of the Perennial philosophy.



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Ferdinando Sardella

Ferdinando Sardella completed his BA and B.Th. degrees and received a MA in religious studies with a major in history of religions at the University of Gothenburg.

John Myrdhin Reynolds

Reynolds has taught History of Religions and Buddhist Studies at Shanti Ashram (South India), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, at the University of California Santa Cruz and at the College of New Rochelle in New York City.

Map–territory relation

Historian of religions J. Z. Smith wrote a book entitled Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978, University of Chicago Press 1993 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76357-9).

Marcel Simon

Marcel Simon (1907 in Strasbourg – 1986) was a French specialist in the history of religions, particularly relations between Christianity and Judaism in antiquity.

Teodor Baconschi

He graduated from the Theological Institute of the University of Bucharest in 1985, received a Diplôme d'études approfondies (Master of Advanced Studies) at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1991 and a PhD in Religious Anthropology and Compared History of Religions from the same university in 1994.