Don't like any religions at this point — think they're all nuts to one degree or another.
After he graduated, he began looking beyond Chicago; he studied African religions at the University of Cape Town.
"Religious practice in Brazil is often highly hybridized," said Stephen Selka, an expert on African diaspora religions at Indiana University.
In 1986, the pope sponsored a broad gathering of leaders of all the major religions at Assisi.
"It's sort of white people's Hinduism," said Lee Siegel, a professor of Indian religions at the University of Hawaii.
HUDSON--Dennis D. Emeritus Professor of World Religions at Smith College, died Sunday at his home in Northampton, MA.
Mircea Eliade, a Romanian-born scholar who fostered the study of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, constructed another influential notion of the sacred.
You should respect local traditions, customs, laws and religions at all times and be aware of your actions to ensure that they don't offend".
The first congress of Religionswissenschaft (Science of Religion) took place in Stockholm in 1897, and a similar one in the history of religions at Paris in 1900.
"In the 1930s the first missionaries translated the Scriptures into various Indian languages," says Aída Hernández, a specialist on religions at the Social Anthropology Research Centre (Ciesas).
"I've tried to be more friendly, more interested in them," she said of the other races and religions at her son's school.
