Introduction

Jon R. Stone

1-17

Methods in my life

Ninian Smart

18-35

From great neck to swift hall

confessions of a reluctant historian of religions

Wendy Doniger

36-51

There is no religion there

Frits Staal

52-75

Climbing the foothills of understanding

John Hick

76-97

From history to religion

Jacob Neusner

98-116

Theological autobiography

James Robinson

117-150

Half a life in religious studies

confessions of an "historical historian"

Martin E. Marty

151-174

On theory-driven methods

Rodney Stark

175-196

On studying religion

Andrew M. Greeley

197-212

Of churches, courts, and moral order

Phillip E. Hammond

213-239

Religion as life and text

postmodern re-figurations

Edith Wyschogrod

240-257

Retracings

Mark C. Taylor

258-276

Who are you really, and what were you before?

reflections on a thinking life

Giles Gunn

277-299

The rest is history

Ivan Strenski

300-324