Mario Ignacio Aguilar FRAS FRSA FRAI (born 10 March 1959)[1] is the Chair of Religion and Politics at the School of Divinity (St. Mary's College) of the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
[2] He completed his PhD in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Since joining the University of St Andrews in 1994, he has held various positions including, Dean of Divinity (2002-2005).
[3] Aguilar is also the current director and a founding director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics[4] (known as the CSRP) based within St Mary's, and the centre only accepts PhD researchers.
"[6] In addition in July 2012 De Gruyter announced the engagement of Aguilar as the general editor of a three volume Handbook on Liberation Theology.