Rene Gothoni

Rene Gothoni is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Helsinki, a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a life member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. He is also President of the Finnish Society of Friends of Mount Athos. His publications include Attitudes and Interpretations in Comparative Religion (2000), The Unknown Pilgrim (2006) and Words Matter: Hermeneutics in the Study of Religions (2011). He also edited How to Do Comparative Religion (2005), The...See more

Rene Gothoni is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Helsinki, a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a life member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. He is also President of the Finnish Society of Friends of Mount Athos. His publications include Attitudes and Interpretations in Comparative Religion (2000), The Unknown Pilgrim (2006) and Words Matter: Hermeneutics in the Study of Religions (2011). He also edited How to Do Comparative Religion (2005), The Monastic Magnet: Roads to and from Mount Athos (with Graham Speake, 2008) and Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy (2010). See less