Dr.
James A. Santucci is Chair and Professor of Comparative Religion
at California State University, Fullerton. Having
received a B.A. degree in history at Iona
College in New Rochelle, N.Y.,
an M.A. degree in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii (Manoa campus) in Honolulu,
and the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Asian Civilizations
at the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). Professor
Santucci became a member of both the Religious Studies (now the
Comparative Religion Department) and Linguistics Departments
at California State University, Fullerton in
1970. In 1993, he became a full-time member
of the Comparative Religion Department. As
a member of this Department, Professor Santucci
is primarily responsible for teaching the courses on Buddhism
(CPRL 280 and 354), Hinduism (CPRL 347A and B), Conceptions of
the Afterlife (CPRL 375), New Religious Movements (CPRL 370),
and World Religions (CPRL 110). He
is also responsible for teaching three courses for the Department
of Linguistics: Descriptive Linguistics (Linguistics 406), Changing
Words, a course on etymology (Linguistics
442), and Sanskrit (Linguistics/Comparative Religion 301). Professor
Santucci has
authored five books, including An Outline of Vedic Literature, La
società teosofica, and An Educator's Classroom
Guide to America's Religious Beliefs and Practices and has authored
over 45 articles. Dr.
Santucci was also a contributor to Agni: The Vedic Ritual
of the Fire Altar (vol. 2), edited by Frits Staal. He
is the editor of Theosophical History and Theosophical
History Occasional Papers as well as a contributor (the Sanskrit
language) to the Intercontinental Dictionary Series, which
was initiated by its Founding Editor, Professor Mary Ritchie
Key (University of California, Irvine ), and currently under
the General Editor, Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig). This Dictionary, as the
successor to Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms
in The Principal Indo-European Languages, seeks to compare all
the major languages of the world: classical as well as modern.
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