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Christian K. Wedemeyer Office: Swift Hall 310B
1025-35 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773) 702-8265 Email Interests:

Anthropology, Buddhism, Comparative Religion, Law, Magic and the Occult, Philology and Literary Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, First Millennium, Modern, Medieval, East Asia, South Asia, Europe
Associate Professor of the History of Religions; Associate Faculty in South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Chair of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies; Assistant Marshal of the University; also in the College

Christian Wedemeyer is an historian of religions whose interests comprehend theory and method in the human sciences, the history of modern scholarship on religion and culture, and issues of history, textuality, and ritual in the Buddhist traditions. Within these very general domains, much of his research has concerned the esoteric (Tantric) Buddhism of India and Tibet.

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