The Imaginal Institute

 

 

David L. Miller, Ph.D.
Founding Fellow

David L. Miller, Ph.D., is the Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Syracuse University and is a retired core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Since 1963, David has worked at the intersections of religions and mythologies, literature and literary theory, and depth psychology.

A multi-award winning teacher, David has shared his brilliance and humor with learners ranging from undergraduate students to professional psychologists as a teacher and guest speaker throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. From 1975 until 1988 he was a member of the Eranos Circle in Switzerland and he lectured at the Eranos Conference nine times during that period.

David is the author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters, as well as five books . The books include: Gods and Games: Towards a Theology of Play (1970, 1973); The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses (1974, 1981, also in French, Italian, and Japanese editions); Christs: Archetypal Images in Christian Theology (1981, 2005); Three Faces of God (1986, 2005); and Hells and Holy Ghosts (1989, 2004). He is also the editor of two additional books: Interpretation: The Poetry of Meaning (1967) and Jung and the Interpretation of the Bible (1995).

David has served as president of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture (1992-93), and he has been on the editorial boards of Sphinx (London), The Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Atlanta), L'Esprit jungien (Paris), and Mythosphere (Tuscaloosa).  He currently serves on the editorial board of Spring Journal (New Orleans). He has also been the Chairperson of the Publications' Committee of the American Academy of Religion (1991-93), Chairperson of the Advisory Group on the Study of Myth in Higher Education for the Joseph Campbell Foundation (1992-1994), and a member of the Boards of Directors of Scholars Press (1991-1993), the American Academy of Religion (1991-1993), the Joseph Campbell Foundation (2004-    ), and the Foundation of Mythological Studies (2006-    ).

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