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Lindsay Jones, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Religion
Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/475 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: jones.70@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-6185
Fax: 614-292-6707
Education:
Ph.D in History of Religions, University of Chicago
General Background:
Teaching and Research
Lindsay Jones has a broad interest in the methods, theories, histories, and topics associated with the cross-cultural study of religion, along with special concerns for sacred architecture and for the cultures and religions of Mesoamerica.
He is author of Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chíchén Itzá (University Press of Colorado, 1995) and The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture:Experience, Interpretation, Comparison (Harvard University Press, 2000) two volumes; and co-editor with Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions of Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage:From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs (University Press of Colorado, 1999); and editor-in-chief for the revised second edition of Mircea Eliade's sixteen-volume Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan Reference, 2005). Additionally, he is Director of Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion..
Architecture
Culture
Ethnography
Religion
