Eugene Taylor (28 October 1946 – 30 January 2013) was a scholar on

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Biography

Taylor was educated at

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Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the religious studies, academic study of religion or for leadership role ...

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(PhD in the History and Philosophy of Psychology). He was the 1983 William James Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. Taylor died in 2013 and was the subject of many remembrances and obituaries. Taylor held the rank of yondan (4th degree black belt) and was the founder the Harvard Aikido Club in 1981 and a shidoin (instructor) in the United States

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Federation. In 1993 he founded the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Comparative Religions; was a founding member of The New Existentialists; and was the Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of Swedenborgian Churches (see Church of the New Jerusalem (Cambridge, Massachusetts)). Dr. Taylor was Senior Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (appointed official historian) and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Taylor was known for the size and scope of his personal library of an estimated 8000 volumes.John Kaag, "Haunted by Spirits", 23 November 2015, on chronicle.com
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Publications

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References

1946 births 2013 deaths Psychologists of religion 20th-century American psychologists Harvard Divinity School alumni Boston University alumni Southern Methodist University alumni Historians of psychology {{US-psychologist-stub