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Books Durga's mosque, Christ After Communism: Spiritual, From Cosmogony to Exorcis, From Cosmogony to Exorcis | ||
Stephen Cavanna Headley (born 5 August 1943 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is a social anthropologist and a priest of the Orthodox Church. He is best known for his books on the anthropology of prayer and the enthnography of Central Java in Indonesia. He writes in French and English.
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Headley was married to the American artist Anne Everett who died in 2013.
Education and academic posts
Headley earned a B.A. degree in Oriental Studies (Chinese and Sanskrit) from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1956 where he studied under Anton Zigmund-Cerbu. He obtained an M. A. degree in Buddhist Studies from Columbia University in 1969 and continued his studies in Paris with a diploma in Sanskrit philology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1972) and a doctorate in social anthropology under Georges Condominas at the Sorbonne in 1979. He also studied theology at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York, 1966–1969) and at the St Sergius Institute of Orthodox Theology in Paris (1969–1973).
He worked at the French National Center for Scientific Research between 1981-2008: between 1998 and 2008 he was working with a research team founded by the anthropologist Louis Dumont.
Between 1973 and 2005 Headley did extensive fieldwork in central Java
Between 2006- 2010 he taught in Moscow and undertook field work on parish life.