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Project Website (with 85 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11048/
Charles H. Long was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces and served in World War II. At the University of Chicago he studied with the Joachim Wach, and joined with Professors Mircea Eliade and Joseph Kitagawa in establishing the international journal, _History of Religions_; he also helped established the first curriculum for the study of religion in the College of the University of Chicago. He has been involved in the training of three generations of scholars in religion and African American studies. Some of his many positions and titles include: President of the American Academy of Religion as well as the Society for the Study of Black Religion. Long has also written and edited many books; his latest was _Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Study of Religion_ (1986, 2nd ed., 1999). He has held faculty positions as Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, North Carolina, Duke University and Syracuse University. He has served as a visiting faculty member at universities nationwide. From 1991 to 1996 he served as Director of the Research Center for Black Studies and Professor of History of Religions at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He retired from the University of California in 1996.
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