# Bruce Lawrence > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bruce_Lawrence > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bruce_Lawrence.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lawrence > Source revision: 1341262115 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American Professor of Religion (born 1941)}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Bruce B. Lawrence | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1941|8|14}} | birth_place = [Newton, New Jersey](/source/Newton%2C_New_Jersey), U.S.{{cite web|last=Lawrence|first=Bruce |url=http://duke.academia.edu/BruceLawrence/CurriculumVitae|title=Curriculum Vitae|publisher=Duke University|via=Academia.edu|accessdate=July 13, 2020}} | death_date = | death_place = | fields = [History of Islam](/source/History_of_Islam) | workplaces = [Duke University](/source/Duke_University) | alma_mater = {{Unbulleted list |[Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) |[Yale University](/source/Yale_University)}} }} '''Bruce Bennett Lawrence''' (born August 14, 1941) is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at [Duke University](/source/Duke_University). He has taught at Duke since 1971. ==Education== A graduate of [Fay School](/source/Fay_School) and [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University), with a Master of Divinity from [Episcopal Divinity School](/source/Episcopal_Divinity_School) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), he earned his doctorate at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) in History of Religions. There he was trained to engage West Asia (aka the [Middle East](/source/Middle_East)) and [South Asia](/source/South_Asia), with particular reference to the cultures and languages, the history and religious practices marked as [Muslim](/source/Muslim). But he also concerns himself with the non-Muslim religious traditions of Asia, especially [Hinduism](/source/Hinduism), [Buddhism](/source/Buddhism), [Sikhism](/source/Sikhism) and [Jainism](/source/Jainism), at the same time that he pursues the turbulent reconnections of Europe to Asia forged in [colonial](/source/colonialism), then [post-colonial](/source/post-colonialism) encounters. ==Writing== His early books explored the intellectual and social history of Asian Muslims. ''Shahrastani on the Indian Religions'' (1976) was followed by ''Notes from a Distant Flute'' (1978), ''The Rose and the Rock'' (1979) and ''Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology'' (1984). Since the mid-1980s, he has been concerned with the interplay between [religion](/source/religion) and [ideology](/source/ideology). The test case of [fundamentalism](/source/fundamentalism) became the topic of his award-winning [monograph](/source/monograph), ''Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age'' (1989/1995). A parallel but more limited enquiry informed his latest monograph, ''Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence'' (1998/2000). It is the thorny issue of [religious pluralism](/source/religious_pluralism) and [diasporic](/source/diaspora) communities that guide his monograph on Asian religions in America ([Columbia University Press](/source/Columbia_University_Press), November 2002). ''New Faiths/Old Fears'' concerns [Asian religions](/source/Asian_religions) in America, especially since 1965; it examines the challenge of their [spiritual practice](/source/spiritual_practice)s to [North American](/source/North_American) norms and values. He has also written three collaborative works with colleagues from the [Triangle](/source/Research_Triangle_Park) area. The first, ''Beyond Turk and Hindu: Contesting Islamicate India'', was edited with Professor David Gilmartin of [North Carolina State University](/source/North_Carolina_State_University), and published by the [University Press of Florida](/source/University_Press_of_Florida) in December 2000 (with an Indian edition in September 2002). The other was co-written with Professor [Carl Ernst](/source/Carl_W._Ernst) of the [University of North Carolina](/source/University_of_North_Carolina). ''Sufi Martyrs to Love: The Chishti Brotherhood in South Asia and Beyond'', was published from [Palgrave Press](/source/Palgrave_Macmillan), also in November 2002. Most recently, with his Duke colleague and spouse, Dr. [Miriam Cooke](/source/Miriam_Cooke) of Asian and African Languages and Literatures, he has co-edited ''Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop'', published in March 2005 from [UNC Press](/source/UNC_Press) in a series that he also co-edits, with Professor Ernst, on [Islamic civilization](/source/Muslim_world) and Muslim Networks. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070814095608/http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/civilizations/_lawrence.html Lawrence, Bruce B.; ''Debating Civilizations''] *[http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/disc/faculty/bbl Duke Islamic Studies Center] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Bruce}} Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American historians Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:21st-century American historians Category:21st-century American male writers Category:Duke University faculty Category:Episcopal Divinity School alumni Category:Fay School alumni Category:American historians of Islam Category:People from Newton, New Jersey Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Historians from New Jersey Category:20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-1940s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Bruce Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lawrence) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lawrence?action=history)). 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