Robert S. Ellwood

Robert S. Ellwood (Normal, 1933) is an American academic, author and expert on world religions.
He was educated at the University of Colorado, Berkeley Divinity School and was awarded a PhD in History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 1967. He was Professor of World Religions at the University of Southern California from 1967 until 1997.

• The Feast of Kingship: Accession Ceremonies in Ancient Japan (1973).
• Introducing Religion: From Inside and Outside (1978; 2nd ed. 1983; 3rd ed. 1993).
• Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America (1979).
• Mysticism and Religion (1980).
• An Invitation to Japanese Civilization (1980).
• Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind (1982).
• (with Richard Pilgrim), Japanese Religion: A Cultural Perspective (1984).
• The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern (1994).
• The Fifties' Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict (1997).
• The Pilgrim Self: Traveling the Path from Life to Life (1997).
• The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell (1999).
• Introducing Japanese Religion (2008).
• Myth (2008).
• Tales of Darkness: The Mythology of Evil (2009).