Arvind Sharma

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. Sharma's works focus on Hinduism, philosophy of religion. In editing books his works include Our Religions and Women in World Religions, Feminism in World Religions was selected as a Choaphy ChoiceOutstanding Academic Book (1999).

Arvind Sharma was born on 13 January 1940 in Varanasi, India.

He served in civil services in Gujarat until 1968 he went to US to pursue higher studies in economics at the University of Syracuse, obtaining a Masters in economics in 1970.While pursuing the role of non-economic factors in economic development he became interested in religion and joined Harvard Divinity School in 1972.After obtaining a Masters in Theological Studies, he earned his PhD from the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in 1978.

While at Harvard he was recruited in 1976 by the newly founded Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. In 1980 he moved to the University of Sydney.In 1994 he was appointed the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, where he teaches.

The archives fonds of Arvind Sharma is held at McGill University Archives (MUA)