Fr. Stephen C. Headley (b. 1943) is an Orthodox priest and a cultural anthropologist who worked in Java (Indonesia) for three decades and later in Moscow and South India. He collaborated with a research team of the C.N.R.S., Paris, founded by Louis Dumont, and taught at the Orthodox Seminary of St. Geneviève, Paris. His most recent writings are a three volume theological anthropology on prayer, ritual and secularization. He is the rector of the Orthodox parish of St. Etienne & St. Germain d’Auxerre in Vézelay (Burgundy).