Timothy Fitzgerald is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling. He has published many articles and three books, The Ideology of Religious Studies (Oxford University Press, 2000), Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: A Critical History of Religion and Related Categories (Oxford University Press, 2007) and (ed.) Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations (Equinox, 2007). He did research on untouchables and Buddhism in India and lived for several years in Japan.