Sarah M. Pike | |
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Occupation(s) | professor, Author, and Scholar |
Academic background | |
Education | PhD, (with distinction) Religious Studies, Indiana University (PhD minor, Women's Studies), 1998
MA, Religious Studies, Indiana University, 1989 BA, cum laude, Religion, Duke University, 1983 |
Alma mater | Indiana University, Duke University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Orsi |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Comparative Religion |
Institutions | California State University, Chico |
Sarah M. Pike is an American author and professor of comparative religion in the Department of Religious studies at California State University, Chico.[1][2] Her interests include paganism, environmentalism, religion and ecology, and ritual studies.[1] Her research on neopaganism and radical environmentalism has been lauded as being significant to the study of festival and group behaviour.[2][3] She is the president of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, co-chair of the American Academy of Religion, Ritual Studies Group, and director of the California State University, Chico Humanities Center.[4][5]