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| first_name = Edwin Oliver
| name = James
| honorific_prefix = Prof.; Rev.| honorific_suffix = DLitt PhD DD FSA
| image = File:James,_Edwin_Oliver.jpg
| birth_date = 1888
| death_date = 1972
| address = Dovedale, Wytgham Street, Oxford<br />St Peter's Vicarage, Limehouse, E14 [1917]<br />Holy Trinity Vicarage, Reading [1921]<br />St Thomas's Vicarage, Reading [1923]<br />St Thomas's Vicarage, Oxford [1925]<br />Prof. of the History and Philosophy of Religion, The University, Leeds [1933]<br />Newlands, Crawley Ridge, Camberley, Surrey [1949]| occupation = anthropologist<br />academic<br />church
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1915.03.11
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1972 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Prehistoric Society<br />Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== House Notes ===
1915.02.23 nominated; proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by R.R. Williamson<br /><br />1972.07 death noted
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Edwin Oliver James (1888 – 1972) was an anthropologist in the field of comparative religion. He was Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, Fellow of University College London and Fellow of King's College London. During his long career he had been Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Leeds, Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and Wilde Lecturer at the University of Oxford.<br /><br />James received his education at Exeter College, Oxford and at University College London, where he studied under the noted egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie.<br /><br />(Additional information from the back flap of James' The Ancient Gods (1960) - David W. Daniels)