Wendy Doniger

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1. Wendy Doniger

   Author of Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes, Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation

2. Mircea Eliade

   Author of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History, Patterns in Comparative Religion

3. Jonathan Z. Smith

   Author of Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism), Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity, Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions

4. Bruce Lincoln

   Author of Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11, Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

5. William Dalrymple

   Author of City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

6. Joseph Campbell

   Author of The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension, Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: the Northern Americas, Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India (Campbell, Joseph, Works.)

7. Anonymous

   Author of The Rig Veda: An Anthology of One Hundred Eight Hymns (Classic), Hindu Myths. A sourcebook, Speaking of Siva

8. Gaston Bachelard

   Author of The Poetics of Reverie, Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (Bachelard Translation Series) (Bachelard Translations), Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (Bachelard Translation Series)

9. Heinrich Robert Zimmer

   Author of Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The King and the Corpse

10. Roberto Calasso

    Author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, The Ruin of Kasch

11. David Gordon White

    Author of Tantra in Practice, The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India, Myths of the Dog-Man

12. David R. Kinsley

    Author of Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History o, The Sword and the Flute--Kali and Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology (Hermeneutics:, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas

13. Michel Feher

    Author of Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 2, Zone 3: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1, Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

14. Douglas Renfrew Brooks

    Author of The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism, Auspicious Wisdom: The Texts and Traditions of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India

15. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

    Author of The Dance of Siva, Hinduism and Buddhism, Yaksas: Essays in the Water Cosmology

16. Erich Neumann

    Author of The Great Mother (Mythos Books), The Origins and History of Consciousness (Mythos Books), Amor and Psyche (Mythos Books)

17. Stella Kramrisch

    Author of The Presence of Siva (Mythos)

18. Yves Bonnefoy

    Author of Asian Mythologies, Roman and European Mythologies

19. Mark S. G. Dyczkowski

    Author of The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism (Suny Series in the Shaiva Tra

20. Gavin D. Flood

    Author of An Introduction to Hinduism (Introduction to Religion)