About the Author

Stefan Arvidsson is assistant professor at the University of Halmstad and a researcher at the University of Lund. Sonia Wichmann received a PhD from the Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"Aryan Idols traces the politics of scholarship on Indo-European (or Aryan, in the discourse that predominated until 1945) religion, especially as it interacted with nationalism and racial theories, culminating in the Nazi period. Arvidsson's research is truly painstaking. He assembles an enormous amount of evidence and produces a powerful, clear, and frequently gripping account of the agendas and subtexts present within the scholarship. I found this book utterly fascinating." - Bruce Lincoln, author of Theorizing Myth"