Jeffrey John Kripal

Jeffrey John Kripal (born 1962) is an American religious studies scholar. He is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. While chairman of the Religion Department at Rice, he helped found their "GEM" program, with a doctoral concentration in "Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism". His work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the his…