Carl Olson
Carl Olson is professor emeritus of religious studies at Allegheny College. Besides over 240 reviews and essays published in scholarly journals and book anthologies, he is the author of twenty-three books, including: The Stain of Erro on the Self (2024); The Nostalgia for Origins: Religion, Evolution, Cognition, and Memory (2024); Religious Ways of Experiencing Life (2016); and Indian Asceticism (2015). Olson has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities chair; The Teacher-Scholar...See more
Carl Olson is professor emeritus of religious studies at Allegheny College. Besides over 240 reviews and essays published in scholarly journals and book anthologies, he is the author of twenty-three books, including: The Stain of Erro on the Self (2024); The Nostalgia for Origins: Religion, Evolution, Cognition, and Memory (2024); Religious Ways of Experiencing Life (2016); and Indian Asceticism (2015). Olson has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities chair; The Teacher-Scholar Professorship of the Humanities; and Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. See less