Professor Robert SEGAL

Professor Robert SEGAL The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Chair in Religious Studies work +44 (0)1224 273990 pref r.segal@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. AB24 3UB

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Biography

• 1999-2006  Professor of Theories of Religion, Lancaster University
• 1996-99   Reader in Theory of Religion, Lancaster University
• 1994-96   Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University
• 1993-94   Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics, Acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program, Tulane University , New Orleans
• 1988   Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
• 1984-94   Program in Religious Studies, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge
  Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (1984-87)
  Associate Professor of Religious Studies (1987-89)
  Full Professor of Religious Studies (1989-94)
• 1982-84   Lecturer, Western Culture Program, Stanford University
• 1981 (fall)   Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Toronto
• 1975-82   Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities, Reed College , Portland , Oregon

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Research Grants

Fellowships and Grants:

1985 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant
1986 Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Divinity
School, University of Chicago
1986 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1986-87 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
1987-88 Mellon Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
1994 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1995 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant
1995 Fellow, Thomas Reid Institute, University of Aberdeen
1995 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
1997-98 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1997 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant
1997-98 Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2000 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant
2001 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (October-December 2001)
2002 Life Member, Clare Hall

 

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Editorships:

Religion (since 1997)
Editorial Board, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Scottish Journal of Religious Studies, Annals of Scholarship
Book Review Editor for Social Science, Zygon
Network Editor, Religious Studies Review
Editor, Theorists of Myth Series, Routledge (formerly Garland)
Guest Editor, “Religion and the Humanities,” special issue of Annals of Scholarship, 6/4 (1989)

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Memberships and Offices:

American Academy of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, British Association for the Study of Religion, American Folklore Society, Folklore Society, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, International Association of Jungian Studies, International Association for the Psychology of Religion

Convener, History of the Study of Religion Group, American Academy of Religion (1988-90)

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Segal, RA. (2011). 'La mia esperienza degli studi religiosi in Gran Bretagna'. Humanitas, vol 66, pp. 88-90.
• Segal, RA. (2011). 'Mysticism and Psychoanalysis'. Religious Studies Review, vol 37, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01477.x
• Segal, RA. (2010). 'Jung as psychologist of religion and Jung as philosopher of religion'. Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol 55, no. 3, pp. 361-384, 394-397.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2010.01848.x
• Segal, RA. (2010). 'Reply to Roderick Main and George Hogenson'. Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol 55, no. 3, pp. 394-397.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2010.01851.x
• Segal, RA. (2010). 'Functionalism Since Hempel'. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, vol 22, no. 4, pp. 340-353.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1163/157006810X531120
• Segal, RA. (2009). 'Kuhn and the Science of Religion'. Religion, vol 39, no. 4, pp. 352-355.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.religion.2009.08.005
• Segal, RA. (2009). 'Myth and Science: Their Varying Relationships'. Religion Compass, vol 3, no. 2, pp. 337-358.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00129.x
• Segal, RA. (2008). 'William Robertson Smith: Sociologist or Theologian?'. Religion, vol 38, no. 1, pp. 9-24.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.religion.2008.01.009
• Segal, RA. (2007). 'Jung and Lévy-Bruhl'. Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol 52, no. 5, pp. 635-658.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2007.00690.x
• Segal, RA. (2007). 'The Frazerian roots of contemporary theories of religion and violence'. Religion, vol 37, no. 1, pp. 4-25.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.religion.2007.01.006
• Segal, RA. (2006). 'All Generalizations are Bad: Postmodernism on Theories'. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol 74, no. 1, pp. 157-171.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfj026
• Segal, RA. (2003). 'Jung's very Twentieth-century view of myth'. Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol 48, no. 48, pp. 593-617.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/1465-5922.00422
• Segal, RA. (2001). 'In Defense of the Comparative Method'. Numen, vol 48, no. 3, pp. 339-373.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1163/156852701752245604

Editorials

• Segal, RA. (2007). 'Reply to Susan Rowland'. Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol 52, no. 5, pp. 667-671.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2007.00692.x

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Segal, RA. (2010). 'Jung and White on Gnosticism'. M Stein & RA Jones (eds), in: Cultures and Identities in Transition: Jungian Perspectives. Routledge, Hove, United Kingdom, pp. 168-174.
• Segal, RA. (2010). 'Postmodernism and the Comparative Method'. WMJ van Binsbergen & E Venbrux (eds), in: New Perspectives on Myth: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology. vol. 5, Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies, no. 5, Shikanda, Haarlem, Netherlands, pp. 315-333.
• Segal, RA. (2009). 'Religion as Ritual: Roy Rappaport's Changing Views'. M Stausberg (ed.), in: Contemporary Theories of Religion. Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom, pp. 66-82.
• Segal, RA. (2008). 'Violence Internal and External'. B Rennie & PL Tite (eds), in: Religion, Terror and Violence: Religious Studies Perspectives. Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom, pp. 13-38.
• Segal, RA. (2006). 'James and Freud on Mysticism'. in: William James and the Varieties of Religios Experience. William James and the Varieties of Religios Experience, pp. 125-132.
• Segal, RA. (2004). 'Introductory Essay to Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero'. in: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. VII-XXXVIII.

Books and Reports

Books

• Segal, RA. (2007). 'Myth: vol.1, vol.2, vol.3 & vol.4'. Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 1-4, Routledge, London, United Kingdom.

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