The following is a list of religion scholars.

• Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
• Robert Baker Aitken, author of numerous academic books on Zen Buddhism
• Peter Berger, author of The Sacred Canopy
• Pascal Boyer, author of Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
• Francis Brassard, author of The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatra
• Karen McCarthy Brown, author of Mama Lola: A Voodoo Priestess in Brooklyn
• John Corrigan, co-author of Religion in America, editor of the "Chicago History of American Religion" book series (University of Chicago Press)
• Wendy Doniger (formerly published as Wendy O'Flaherty) is a leading researcher in Hinduism among other topics on religion. She teaches at the University of Chicago.
• H. Byron Earhart
• Mircea Eliade, author of The Sacred and the Profane
• Rajmohan Gandhi, author of Revenge and Reconciliation
• Wouter Hanegraaff, author of New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
• Harvey Hill, author of The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion
• James T. Houk, author of Spirits, Blood, and Drums: The Orisha Religion of Trinidad
• Zora Neale Hurston, author of Mules and Men Hoodoo in American
• Joseph M. Kitagawa
• Martin E. Marty (University of Chicago), author of the series Modern American Religion, editor of The Fundamentalism Project
• Jeff McKenzie, author of Hail Orisha:
  
  
  
  A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
• Meredith McGuire author of Religion: The Social Context
• Glen H. Mullen
• Aihwa Ong
• William E. Paden (University of Vermont), author of Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion and Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion
• Geoffrey Parrinder former professor at King's College London and author of What World Religions Teach Us (1968)
• Rosemary R. Ruether
• Arvind Sharma, author of Women in World Religions
• Rosalind Shaw
• Jonathan Z. Smith (University of Chicago), author of Map is Not Territory; Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown and To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual
• Ninian Smart, author of Dimensions of the Sacred
• Ivan Strenski
• Hue Tam Ho Tai
• S.J. Tambiah, author of World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background
• James Webb, author of The Occult Underground and The Harmonious Circle.
• Mudaliyar L.C. Wijesinha
• Zakir Naik

The following is not a list of religion scholars, but people who are relevant to the science of religion.

• Anthony Giddens
• Friedrich Max Müller
• Edward Burnett Tylor
• James George Frazer
• William James
• Carl Jung
• Sigmund Freud
• Max Weber
• Nathan Söderblom
• Wilhelm Schmidt
• Rudolf Otto
• Arnold van Gennep
• Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski
• Gerardus van der Leuuw
• Friedrich Heiler
• Joachim Wach
• Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard-->