Anders Hultgård is emeritus professor of religions at Uppsala University, before which he worked at the University of Bergen, and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. He is a member of the Royal Society of Humanities in Uppsala, the Royal Gustaphus Adolphus Academy in Sweden, and 'Correspondant
étranger' de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris.