Dubuisson, Daniel 1950–

PERSONAL: Born February 2, 1950; son of Andre and Micheline Decleir; married July 1, 1977; wife's name Christine (a teacher); children: David, Marie, Cecile. Ethnicity: "White." Education: University of Lille III, doctorate.

ADDRESSES: Home—15 rue A. Briand, 59700 Marcq en Baræul, France. Office—University of Lille III, BP149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].

CAREER: Writer and administrator. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, director of research in Paris, France, and Lille, France, 1997–. Affiliate of University of Lille III.

WRITINGS:

La lé gende royale dans l'Inde ancienne: Rāma et le Rāmāyana, Economica (Paris, France), 1986.

Mythologies de XXe siècle: Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss,Eliade, Presses Universitaires de Lille (Villeneuve d'Ascq, France), 1993, translation published as Twentieth-Century Mythologies, Equinox, 2005.

Anthropologie poétique: esquisses pour une anthropologie du texte, Peeters (Louvain-la-Neuve,France), 1996.

L'occident et la religion: mythes, science et idéologie, Complexe (Brussels, Belgium), 1998, translation by William Sayers published as The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, Johns Hopkins University Press(Baltimore, MD), 2003.

Dictionnaire des grande themes d'histoire des religions, Complexe (Brussels, Belgium), 2004.

Les sagesses de l'home bouddhisme paganisme spiritualité chrétienne, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2005.