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14-405: Ellwood may refer to: People [ edit ] Ellwood (surname) Ellwood (given name) Places [ edit ] Ellwood City, Pennsylvania Ellwood, Gloucestershire Ellwood, Ottawa Ellwood Oil Field , Goleta, California Ellwood (Leesburg, Virginia) , a historic house Music [ edit ] Ellwood (band) ,

28-529: A band from Solvang, California See also [ edit ] Elwood (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ellwood . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellwood&oldid=1246178042 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

42-589: A language of their own. In Cycles of Faith he further considers that the history of individual religions may have an internal dynamic of their own, as well as responding to outer history. In 1965 Ellwood married Gracia Fay Bouwman, also a student in the University of Chicago Divinity School and subsequently an instructor in Evansville College, Indiana. They had two children, Richard Scott Lancelot (b. 1974) and Fay Elanor (b. 1977). In 1976 he joined

56-794: A professor of religion at the University of Southern California , Los Angeles, serving there until retirement in 1997. In 1988 he received a Fulbright Research Grant to study new religious movements in New Zealand, and spent six months there working in the national library in Wellington . He also taught briefly in the Universities of Cape Town and Natal in South Africa, and after retirement at Auburn University in Alabama. He

70-660: A theory of the comparative development of world religions. The Politics of Myth was a discussion of the controversial political histories of C.G. Jung , Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell . A late series of three books offered a comparative view of mythologies. Ellwood's approach to comparative religion has been fundamentally structuralist, phenomenological, and empathetic. He has sought through religion's material expression in art, architecture, rite, and practices to understand empathetically its inner meaning for adherents, always allowing for an immense range of individual responses, but recognizing also that religious forms have as it were

84-1451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ellwood (surname) Ellwood is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Annabel Ellwood (born 1978), Australian tennis player Sir Aubrey Ellwood (1897–1992), British Royal Air Force commander Ben Ellwood (born 1976), Australian tennis player Charles A. Ellwood (1873–1946), American sociologist Craig Ellwood (1922–1992), American modernist architect David T. Ellwood (fl. 1970s–2010s), American academic Doug Ellwood (fl. 1960s), New Zealand rugby league player Eddy Ellwood (born 1964), British world champion bodybuilder and professional strongman Fionnuala Ellwood (born 1964), Irish-born actress Frank Ellwood (born 1935), American football player and coach Isaac L. Ellwood (1833–1910), American rancher, businessman and barbed wire entrepreneur Katie Ellwood (fl. 2000s–2020s), British film and television director Paul M. Ellwood Jr. (1926–2022), American health care organization pioneer Reuben Ellwood (1821–85), American politician Richard Ellwood (born 1965), English cricketer Robert S. Ellwood (born 1933), American academic Thomas Ellwood (1639–1714), English religious writer Tobias Ellwood (born 1966), British politician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

98-466: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert S. Ellwood 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 and is now professor emeritus. Robert Scott Ellwood Jr.,

112-745: The Theosophical Society in America , serving as vice president of that organization 2002-05. He has also served as a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the United States of America , a small denomination informally affiliated with Theosophy . He offered a few books of popular spirituality through the Theosophical publishing house, Quest Books. After retirement he and Gracia Fay moved to Krotona ,

126-705: The University of Colorado in 1954. He then attended Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, CT, an Episcopal seminary now affiliated with Yale Divinity School. He graduated and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1957. He pastored Christ Church, Central City, NE 1957-1960. In 1961-62 Ellwood served as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy. While stationed in Okinawa and Japan he became interested in Japanese religion, and world religions generally. Reading

140-421: The surname Ellwood . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellwood_(surname)&oldid=1242313282 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

154-552: The works of Mircea Eliade led to an interest in Eliade's structuralist and phenomenological approach to religion as a way of understanding similarities and differences in religions. As a consequence, in 1963 he entered the University of Chicago Divinity School 's history of religion program led by Eliade, receiving the Ph.D. in 1967 after a final year of study in Japan. In 1967 Ellwood became

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168-681: Was based on his Ph.D. dissertation. Subsequently, given the tremendous spiritual ferment in California in the late 1960s, he became interested in new religious and spiritual movements in America, doing an informal survey of them in Los Angeles and publishing Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America . He also wrote on the history of American religion in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as textbooks on world religions, religious studies, and Japanese religion. Cycles of Faith presented

182-703: Was born July 17, 1933, in Normal, Illinois , the son of Robert Sr. and Knola Ellwood. Robert Sr. was a teacher in the high school affiliated with Illinois State Normal University , and a pioneer in the development of sociology as a high school subject. In 1945 the family moved to Chadron, Nebraska , where Robert Sr. became chair of the Education Department at the Nebraska State Teachers College located there. Robert Jr. graduated from Chadron Preparatory School in 1951, and from

196-505: Was named Distinguished Emeritus Professor by U.S.C. in 2002, and Alumnus of the Year by the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2009. As professor of religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ellwood mainly taught courses on Eastern religions and the history of religion. His first book, The Feast of Kingship , about the Daijōsai or Japanese imperial accession ceremony,

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