Bruce Lincoln

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Bruce Lincoln (born March 5, 1948 ) is an American religious scholar.

Lincoln teaches and researches as Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago . His research topics include the branching history of Indo-European myths .

Selected works

Monographs
  • Politique du paradis: Religion et empire dans la Perse achéménide. Labor et Fides, Geneva 2015.
  • Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014.
  • “Happiness for Mankind”. Achaemenian Religion and the Imperial Project. (= Acta Iranica, 53). Peeters, Leuven 2012.
  • Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars. Critical Explorations in the History of Religions. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  • Religion, Empire, and Torture. The Case of Achaemenian Persia. With a Postscript on Abu Ghraib. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11th University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  • Theorizing Myth. Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  • Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  • Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification. Oxford University Press, New York 1989.
  • Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1986.
  • Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies in Rituals of Women's Initiation. Harvard University Press, 1981.
  • Priests, Warriors and Cattle: A Study in the Ecology of Religions. University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1981.

Numerous articles in compilations, commemorative publications and periodicals.

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personal data
SURNAME Lincoln, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American religious scholar and historian of religion
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1948