E. O. James
# E. O. James

El reverendo profesor Edwin Oliver James (1888 - 1972) fue un antropólogo en el campo de la religión comparada.

## Biografía

Fue profesor emérito de historia y filosofía de la religión en la Universidad de Londres, miembro de la University College de Londres y miembro del King's College de Londres. Durante su larga carrera, ha sido profesor de historia y filosofía de la religión en la Universidad de Leeds, profesor en la Universidad de Ámsterdam y Wilde Lecturer en la Universidad de Oxford.

E. O. James recibió su educación en el Exeter College de Oxford y en la University College de Londres, donde estudió con el famoso egiptólogo Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie.

## Obra

* Evolution and the Fall (1923)
* The Beginnings of Man (1928)
* The Christian Faith in the Modern World. A Study in Scientific Theology
* A History of Christianity in England
* Christian Myth And Ritual: A Historical Study (1933)
* Origins of Sacrifice: A Study in Comparative Religion (1933)
* Thieves of Mercy (1934) poems
* The Old Testament in the Light of Anthropology (1935)
* The Origins of Religion (1937)
* Comparative Religion: An Introductory and Historical Study (1938)
* Primitive Belief and Ritual
* The Social Function of Religion (1948)
* The Concept of Deity. The Wilde Lectures (1950)
* Marriage and Society (1952)
* Teach Yourself History of Religions (1956)
* Prehistoric Religion: A Study in Prehistoric Archaeology. (1957)
* Myths and Ritual in the Ancient Near East (1958)
* The Beginnings of Religion: An Introductory & Scientific Study (1958)
* The Cult of the Mother Goddess: An Archaeological and Documentary Study (1959)
* The Comparative Study of Religions of the East (Excluding Christianity and Judaism).
* The Ancient Gods: The History and Diffusion of Religion in the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1960)
* Nature and Function of Priesthood: A Comparative and Anthropological Study (1961)
* Seasonal Feasts and Festivals (1961)
* Sacrifice and Sacrament (1962)
* The Worship of the Sky-God, A Comparative Study in Semitic and Indo-European Religion (1963)
* Marriage Customs Through the Ages (1965)
* Jerusalem: a History (1967)
* From Cave to Cathedral : Temples and Shrines of Prehistoric, Classical and Early Christian Times (1965)
* The Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study (1966)
* Christianity and other religions (1968)
* Creation and Cosmology: a historical and comparative inquiry (1969).
