James CoxJames Cox

Email j.cox@ed.ac.uk

James Cox is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies in the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. In 1999, he was appointed Reader in Religious Studies in the University of Edinburgh and was awarded a Personal Chair in 2006. From 1993 to 1998, he directed the University of Edinburgh's African Christianity Project which included eight African universities in southern and western Africa. He has held prior academic posts at the University of Zimbabwe, Westminster College, Oxford and Alaska Pacific University. In 2009, he was Visiting Professor of Religion in the University of Sydney. Professor Cox is de Carle Distinguished Lecturer in the University of Otago in Dunedin for 2012. During his time at Otago he is completing a book to be published by Equinox in late 2012 under the title, 'Inventions of God in Indigenous Societies'.

Recent Publications

An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion (Continuum, 2010).

From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions (Ashgate, 2007).

A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion (Continuum, 2006).

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