About Professor Nielsen

	Niels C. Nielsen, Jr.'s field of study and research is philosophy and religious studies. His text, Religions of the World is a widely used class book. His study of The Religion of Jimmy Carter had international sales, with Dutch and German translations. He has also written on Religion After Communism in Russia.

Niels C. Nielsen, Jr. is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Rice is an independent university, neither a state supported school or a church sponsored institution. He was founding chairman of its department of religious studies from 1968 to 1990.

His B.A. degree is from George Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, and his B.D. and Ph.D from Yale. He taught in the Yale University Department of Religion before coming to Texas. His professional affiliations include the American Academy of Religion, American Philosophical Society, American Society for the Study of Religion, Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and the Society for European Culture. His doctoral research at Yale was in contemporary theology. Subsequently he has written in the fields of world religions and religion in Eastern Europe; he traveled extensively researching in these fields.

His publications include:

• PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN POST-WAR JAPAN, Rice University
• GEISTIGE LANDERKUNDE, Glock and Lutz, Nurnberg
• A LAYMAN LOOKS AT WORLD RELIGIONS, Bethany, St. Louis
• SOLHENITSYN'S RELIGION, Nelson, Nashville, Danish, Swedish and Chinese translations
• THE RELIGION OF JIMMY CARTER, Dutch and German translations
• THE CRISIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, St. Martin's Press
• RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, ed., 3 editions., Orbis, Maryknoll
• REVOLUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE, Westview Press, Boulder, Colo.
• FUNDAMENTALISM, MYTHOS AND WORLD RELIGIONS, Suny, Albany, NY
• CHRISTIANITY AFTER COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA, Social, Political and Cultural Struggle in Russia, ed.