Kimberley C. Patton
- Title
- Professor in the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion
- kimberley_patton@harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617-496-3395
- Fax
- 617-496-8459
- Department
- Comparative and Historical Study of Religion
- School
- Harvard Divinity School
- Regions of Interest
- Latin American Region-wide or Comparative Work
- Countries of Interest
- Peru, Mexico
- Areas of Expertise
- Religion
- Mailing Address
- Harvard Divinity School 502 Andover Hall 45 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138
- Office Location
- 502 Andover Hall
- Research Interest
- History of world religions; comparative mythology; ritual and iconography of religions
- Web Page
- http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/patton.html
- Courses
- The Deep: Purity, Danger, and Metamorphosis Angels: Messengers of God Sacred History and Historicity: Myth, Epic, Structure, and the Enterprise of Archaeology Seminar: The Tree at the Center of the World Seminar: Sacrifice: Ritual, Reflexivity
- Publications
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Author of The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia, 2006)
Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Reflexivity, and Paradox (Oxford, forthcoming 2007). Co-editor of and contributing author to A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in a Postmodern Age (Berkeley, 2000)
Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (Princeton, 2005)
A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2006).