Jeffrey J. Kripal

Jeffrey J. Kripal
EducationConception Seminary College (BA)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Known forArchives of the Impossible
Scientific career
Fieldsstudy of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions
InstitutionsRice University

Jeffrey John Kripal (born 1962) is an American religious studies scholar. He is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. While chairman of the Religion Department at Rice, he helped found their "GEM" program, with a doctoral concentration in "Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism".

His work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions. Kripal is the founder of the Archives of the Impossible.

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