Professor Robert Segal
Chair in Religious Studies
BA (Wesleyan University), MA, PhD (Princeton University)
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School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. AB24 3UB |
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
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
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)
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)
Publications
- Segal, RA. La mia esperienza degli studi religiosi in Gran Bretagna, Article, 2011, Humanitas, 66, pp88 - 90, ISSN/ISBN: 0018-7496
- Segal, RA. Mysticism and Psychoanalysis, Article, 2011, Religious Studies Review, 37, 1, pp1 - 18, ISSN/ISBN: 0319-485X
- Segal, RA. Functionalism Since Hempel, Article, 2010, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 22, 4, pp340 - 353, ISSN/ISBN: 0943-3058
- Segal, RA. Jung and White on Gnosticism, Chapter, 2010, Cultures and Identities in Transition, pp168 - 174
- Segal, RA. Jung as psychologist of religion and Jung as philosopher of religion, Article, 2010, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 55, 3, pp361 - 384, 394-397, ISSN/ISBN: 0021-8774
- Segal, RA. Postmodernism and the Comparative Method, Chapter, 2010, New Perspectives on Myth, 5, pp315 - 333
- Segal, RA. Reply to Roderick Main and George Hogenson, Article, 2010, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 55, 3, pp394 - 397, ISSN/ISBN: 0021-8774
- Segal, RA. Kuhn and the Science of Religion, Article, 2009, Religion, 39, 4, pp352 - 355, ISSN/ISBN: 0048-721X
- Segal, RA. Myth and Science, Article, 2009, Religion Compass, 3, 2, pp337 - 358, ISSN/ISBN: 1749-8171
- Segal, RA. Religion as Ritual, Chapter, 2009, Contemporary Theories of Religion, pp66 - 82
- Segal, RA. Violence Internal and External, Chapter, 2008, Religion, Terror and Violence, pp13 - 38
- Segal, RA. William Robertson Smith: Sociologist or Theologian?, Article, 2008, Religion, 38, 1, pp9 - 24, ISSN/ISBN: 0048-721X
- Segal, RA. Jung and Lvy-Bruhl, Article, 2007, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 52, 5, pp635 - 658, ISSN/ISBN: 0021-8774
- Segal, RA. Myth, Book, 2007, 1-4
- Segal, RA. Reply to Susan Rowland, Editorial, 2007, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 52, 5, pp667 - 671, ISSN/ISBN: 0021-8774
- Segal, RA. The Frazerian roots of contemporary theories of religion and violence, Article, 2007, Religion, 37, 1, pp4 - 25, ISSN/ISBN: 0048-721X
- Segal, RA. All Generalizations are Bad: Postmodernism on Theories, Article, 2006, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 74, 1, pp157 - 171, ISSN/ISBN: 0002-7189
- Segal, RA. James and Freud on Mysticism, Chapter, 2006, William James and the Varieties of Religios Experience, pp125 - 132
- Segal, RA. Introductory Essay to Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, Chapter, 2004, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, ppVII - XXXVIII
- Segal, RA. Jung's very Twentieth-century view of myth, Article, 2003, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 48, 48, pp593 - 617, ISSN/ISBN: 0021-8774
- Segal, RA. In Defense of the Comparative Method, Article, 2001, Numen, 48, 3, pp339 - 373, ISSN/ISBN: 0029-5973