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Professor E. O. James

Professor E. O. James PROFESSOR E. O. JAMES I888-1972 Edwin Oliver James, doyen of British scholars in the field of the history of religions, died in hospital on 6 July 1972 after a motor car accident at the age of 84 years. Educated at University College School he started his academic career as a chemist, but quite soon turned to anthropology, which he read at Exeter College, Oxford, under the late R. R. Marett; and later he researched for his Ph.D. degree at University College, London, under the late Sir VV. Flinders Petrie. About this time he was also associated with Elliott Smith and W. J. Perry, whose controversial pan-Egyptian diffusionism he was never entirely happy with and of which Petrie strongly dis- approved. James rarely adopted a doctrinaire position, but was content to present different scholars' theories and suggest a mid-way assess- ment. Always a devout and faithful Churchman of the older Anglo- Catholic school, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of Ripon in igi2, and served in a number of English parishes as far afield as Yorkshire, the East End of London and the Thames Valley for over twenty years. During this period he began his voluminous http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Numen Brill

Professor E. O. James

Numen , Volume 19 (1-3): 81 – Jan 1, 1972

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Brill
Copyright
© 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0029-5973
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1568-5276
DOI
10.1163/156852772X00070
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PROFESSOR E. O. JAMES I888-1972 Edwin Oliver James, doyen of British scholars in the field of the history of religions, died in hospital on 6 July 1972 after a motor car accident at the age of 84 years. Educated at University College School he started his academic career as a chemist, but quite soon turned to anthropology, which he read at Exeter College, Oxford, under the late R. R. Marett; and later he researched for his Ph.D. degree at University College, London, under the late Sir VV. Flinders Petrie. About this time he was also associated with Elliott Smith and W. J. Perry, whose controversial pan-Egyptian diffusionism he was never entirely happy with and of which Petrie strongly dis- approved. James rarely adopted a doctrinaire position, but was content to present different scholars' theories and suggest a mid-way assess- ment. Always a devout and faithful Churchman of the older Anglo- Catholic school, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of Ripon in igi2, and served in a number of English parishes as far afield as Yorkshire, the East End of London and the Thames Valley for over twenty years. During this period he began his voluminous

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