Richard Foltz

An historian of comparative religious traditions, Richard Foltz is the founding director of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. His books, Religions of the Silk Road: Premodern Patterns of Globalization (revised 2nd edition, Palgrave, 2010) and L'Iran creuset de religions (Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2007), propose historical models for considering the emergence, development and transmission of the world's major religious traditions, emphasizing the contributions of Iranian civilization to world history.