Jordan Paper

Curriculum Vitae

(revised 1 July 2005)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Essentials

 

NAME: Jordan Paper

 

E-MAIL: jpaper@yorku.ca

PRESENT POSITIONS

York University (Toronto)

Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Senior Scholar, Faculty of Arts

Religious Studies Program

East Asian Studies Program

 

University of Victoria (British Columbia),

Associate Fellow: Centre for Studies in Religion & Society

Adjunct Professor: Faculty of Graduate Studies

            Indigenous Governance Program

EDUCATION & DEGREES

A.B. 1960, University of Chicago

                        Psychology, 1956-60

                        Divinity School, 1960-61

                        Oriental Institute, 1961-63

M.A. 1965, University of Wisconsin (Madison),

                        East Asian Civ.1963-65

            Stanford University (Taipei Center), Chinese, 1965-66

Ph.D. 1971 University of Wisconsin (Madison),

                        Chinese Lang. & Lit., 1966-67

UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT (full-time):

1967-72, Assistant Professor, Indiana State University, Dept. of History

1972-04, Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, York University, Division of Humanities

1973-74, Visiting Professor, Ching-i University (Taichung, Taiwan)

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING (past experience):

Expert witness in judicial proceedings -- Chinese religion, religious legitimacy

Chinese art -- authenticity and dating: pottery, bronzes, seal stones, etc.

OFFICES IN SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS

            Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions:

                        [founding first] General Secretary (1987-92)

            International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR):

                        Member, Standing Committee for Relations with China (1988-92)

                        Canadian Representative, International Committee (governing body) (1993-95)

            American Academy of Religion:

                        [founding first] Chair, Native American Religions Group (1988-91)

            Canadian Society for the Study of Religion:

                        Member-at-large, Executive (1989-92)

                        Chair, Programme Committee (1990-92)

                        Treasurer (1992-95, 1995-98)

            North American Association for the Study of Religion:

                        Vice-President and Program Chair (1993-94)

[first multi-year] President (1994-1996)

 

Teaching

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING (prior to retirement at York University)

List of Courses Most Recently Taught

            (2nd) Introduction to the Study of Religion

            (3rd) Female Spirituality: Comparative Perspectives

            (3rd) Religions of Native American Peoples

            (3rd) Mysticism

            (4th - seminar) The Sacred in Art: Comparative Perspectives

 

Course Development Awards

1991-92 Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning Grant ($2000) to develop visual

materials for "Female Spirituality: Comparative Perspectives"

1993-94 Released time (2 course) to develop computer lectures for course on Chinese religion & aesthetics

1996-97 Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning Released Time Grant (1 course)

            to develop course (Introduction to Chinese Religion - 2 levels) offered entirely on computer

GRADUATE SUPERVISION

Ph.D

1987-1989: Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley): "Visual Art as Metaphor:

            Understanding Christianity and Anishnabe Spirituality"

1991-1997: York University, Faculty of Environmental Studies:

            "Places of Power: Sacred Sites, Gaia's Pilgrims, and the Politics of Landscape"

1999-2002: York University, School of Women's Studies: "Re-Awakening Deborah:

            Locating the Feminist in the Liturgy, Ritual, and Theology of Contemporary Jewish Renewal"

2004-2005: University of Victoria, Interdisciplinary Studies: “’Congruence’ in Couple Relations: The Importance of Spirituality

            to Couple Therapy”

 

M.A.

1983-2002: York University, Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies

            Supervisory committees: topics -  Native American history, religions; psychology of mysticism; female deities; comparative rituals and

political institutions; female spirituality (Celtic, folk Italian, Native American, Feminist Goddess); art and religion (North American)

2004-continuing: University of Victoria, Indigenous Governance Program

 

M.F.A. 1983-85: York University, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.F.A. supervisory committees

M.S.W. 1995-96: York University, Atkinson College, M.S.W. thesis supervisory committee

 

Research

RESEARCH FUNDING (since arriving at York University)

External Research Grants

1985-86: Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) research grant (2 years):

            "The Modern Pan-Indian Sacred Pipe: A Diachronic and Ethnographic Analysis"

1992-1995: SSHRC research grant (3 years): "Female Spirits and Spirituality: Comparative Perspectives"

1995-96: Faculty Research Award for Chinese (Taiwan) Studies, Assoc. of Universities and Colleges of Canada

 

Internal Research Grants

Faculty of Arts Research Grants: 1973?74, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1996, 1999, 2002.

Faculty of Arts Leave (non-sabbatical) Fellowship, 1987-88

York University Sabbatical Leave Fellowship: 1992-93, 1999-2000

Faculty of Arts Special Computer Matching Grant: 1997 (for project:

"Diffusion and Hermeneutics of a Pan-Cultural Earth Goddess Image")

 

Other External Grants

SSHRC grants to participate in international congresses -1983 (Japan), 1986 (Germany), 1987 (Scotland), 1988 (Germany),

1989 (Taiwan), 1990 (Finland), 1992 (China), 1994 (Czech Republic), 1995 (Mexico), 2000 (South Africa)

1985: Canadian Federation for the Humanities subvention: The "Fu-tzu": A Post-Han Confucian Text

1986: SSHRC grant for lecturing abroad - China

1996: SSHRC conference grant - $10,000: Conference on Female Spirituality

SSHRC grant for international representation - 1990 (Rome), 1993 (Paris) [program terminated 1995]

ONGOING RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS

Major - An Other than Christian Approach to the Understanding of Religion: Natural Religion

Minor - The District Magistrate as Priest: Local State Religion Personnel in Traditional China

 

Publications

 

PUBLICATIONS (total: 106, excluding review essays and reviews)

 

Peer Reviewed Books and Monographs- based on long-term original research:

1987 The "Fu-tzu": A Post-Han Confucian Text, T'oung Pao Monographie XIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill), viii+108 pages

1988 Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press; copublished

with Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989) [2nd printing: 1994], xv+161 pages + XVI color plates, large folio

1995 The Spirits are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion (Albany: State University of New York Press), xx+315

            pages

1997 Through the Earth Darkly: Female Spirituality in Comparative Perspective (New York: Continuum), xxi+290 pages

2004 The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis (Albany: State University of New York Press), xiv + 169 pages

2005 The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology (Albany: State University of New York Press), xiv + 155 pages

2007 Native North American Religious Traditions: Dancing for Life (Westport, Conn.: Praeger), xv + 191

2012 The Theology of the Chinese Jews (ca. 1000-1860) (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press), xi + 157

 

Other Books and Monographs - Reference works, textbooks, museum exhibition catalogues:

1973 An Index to Stories of the Supernatural in the "Fa yüan chu lin" (Taipei: CMRASC Occasional Series No. 19)

1973 Guide to Chinese Prose (Boston: G. K. Hall), 137 pages

1984 Guide to Chinese Prose, 2nd ed., completely revised (Boston: G. K. Hall), xx+149 pages

1985 "Clouds as Waves, Petals as Rain": Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy,  Painting and Prints [exhibition catalogue]

            (North York, Ont.: Art Gallery  of York University)

1998 Chinese Way in Religion, 2nd ed. [1st ed. by L.G. Thompson] (Belmont,  Calif.: Wadsworth), xx+216 pages

1998 Chinese Religion Illustrated (Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth) [CD-ROM]

2002 with Barry Till, Refined Tastes: The Literati Style of China and Japan [exhibition catalogue] (Victoria, BC:

            Art Gallery of Greater Victoria),  112 pages

 

Chapters in Books

1984 "Amerindian Spirituality," chap. 1 in L. Holton, ed., Spirit of Toronto (Hamilton, Ont.: Images)

1986 "Fu Hsüan," William Nienhauser, Jr., ed., Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (Bloomington:

            Indiana University Press)

1991 Entries on Native American Religions, Editorial Board, World Scriptures: A Comparitive Anthology of Sacred Texts

            (New York: Paragon House)

1993 Entries on Native American Religions, Michael Pye, ed., Macmillan Dictionary of Religion (London: Macmillan)

1994 "Religion," Patrick D. Murphy & Wu Dingpo, eds., Handbook  of Chinese Popular Culture (Westport, Conn.:

            Greenwood Press): 77-92

1998 "An Early Clan Origin Myth: Shih (Scripture of Odes), Ode 245,"  Jordan Paper, ed., The Chinese Way in Religion, 2nd. ed.

            (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Press)

1998 "A Condemnation of Buddhism: Han Yü's 'Memorial to the Throne  of a Bone of the Buddha,'" Jordan Paper, ed.,

            The Chinese Way in Religion,  2nd. ed. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Press)

1998 "'The Garden for Pleasure in Solitude': By Ssu-Ma Kuang,"Jordan Paper, ed., The Chinese Way in Religion, 2nd. ed.

            (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth  Press)

1998 "'Red Cliff Fu I': By Su Shih," Jordan Paper, ed., The Chinese  Way in Religion, 2nd. ed. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Press)

1998 "Menarche (First Menstruation) Rituals," Encyclopedia of Women  and Religion (New York: Macmillan)

2005 "A Religio-Ecological Perspective on Religion and Nature," The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (London:

            Thoemmes Continuum).

2005 "Anishnabeg Culture," The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (London: Theommes Continuum).

2005 "Chinese Traditional Concepts of Nature," Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (London: Theommes Continuum).

2005 "Sacred Pipe," Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO)

2005 "Tobacco, Sacred Use of" Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO)

2005 "Female Spirituality." Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO)

2005 "Ceremony and Ritual, Anishnabe," Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO)

2007, Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, ed. "Menarche: cultural and spirtual meanings," Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference) Religion in Canada ( San Francisco: Harper-Collins).

In press "Native Traditions, "Encyclopedia of Religion in Canada ( San Francisco: Harper-Collins).

           

 

Articles in Refereed Books

1977 "A Shaman in Contemporary Toronto," Peter Slater, ed., Religion and Culture in Canada (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Press): 471-89

1989 "Fu Hsüan as Poet: A Man of His Season," Tse-Tsung Chow, ed., Wen-lin, Vol. 2 (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press): 45-60.

1990 "Through The Earth Darkly: The Female Deity in Native American Religions," Christopher Vecsey, ed., Religion in Native

            North America (Moscow: University of Idaho Press): 3-19

1994 "Slighted Grandmothers: The Need for Increased Research on Female Spirits and Spirituality in Native American Religions,"

            Annual Review of Women in World Religions III, A. Sharma & K. Young, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press): 88-106

1999 "Conversion From Within and Without in Chinese Religion," M. Darrol Bryant & Christopher Lamb, Religious Conversion:

            Contemporary Practices and Controversies (London: Pinter/Cassell): 102-14.

2001 "Chinese Religion, 'Daoism', and Deep Ecology," David Barnhill & Roger Gottlieb, eds., Deep Ecology and World Religions

            (Albany: State University of New York Press): 107-126.

2005 with David Lai & Li Chuang Paper, “Chinese in Canada: Their Unrecognized Religion,” in Paul Bramadat & David Seljack, eds., Religion and Ethnicity in Canada (Toronto: Pearson Longman): 89-110

2006 with Kenn Pitawankwat, “The Anishnabe Term for Ritual,” in Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek & Michael Strausberg, eds., Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts (Leiden: Brill)

2008 “Bear,” Kaarina Kailo, Wo(men) and Bears: The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited (Toronto: Innana Press), 235-41

2008 “Her Gift,” Kaarina Kailo, Wo(men) and Bears: The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited (Toronto: Innana Press), 242

2011 “The Native American Earth Mother: From the Inca to the Inuit,” in Patricia Monaghan, ed., Goddesses in World Culture, Vol. 3 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger),  27-42

2012 “Aboriginals” in Jamie Scott, ed., The Religion of Canadians (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 1-31

2012 “The Theology of the Chinese Jews: An Understanding of God that is Simultaneously Jewish, ‘Confucian” and Daoist,” Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, eds., Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (Springer), in press.

2012 “Ethnohermeneutics” and the Anthropology Of Religion （民族诠释学与宗教人类学), 宗教人類學 (Anthropology of Religion [Beijing]) 3, in press.

forthcoming, “Problems in the Anthropology of Religion: The Case of Çatalhöyük,” 宗教人類學 (Anthropology of Religion [Beijing]) 4.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

1971 "The Ch'un meng so yen (Trifling Tale of a Spring Dream), An Erotic Literary Chinese Tale," Nachrichten (Hamburg) 109: 69-85

1974 "The Early Development of Chinese Cosmology," Chinese Culture15, 2:15-25

1975 "Confucianism in the Post-Han Era," Chinese Culture 16, 2: 37?44

1977 "Dating the Chuang-tzu by Analysis of Philosophical Terms," Chinese Culture 18, 4: 33-40

1978 "The Meaning of the T'ao-t'ieh," History of Religions 18: 18-41

1980 "From Shaman to Mystic in Ojibwa Religion," Studies in Religion 9: 185-99

1982 "From Shamanism to Mysticism in the Chuang-tzu," Scottish Journal  of Religious Studies 3: 27-45

1983 "The Forgotten Grandmothers: Amerindian Women and Religion in Colonized North America," Canadian Woman Studies 5: 48-51

1983 "The Post-contact Origin of An American Indian High God: The Suppression of Feminine Spirituality," American Indian Quarterly 7, 4 (Fall): 1-24

1984 "A Critical Look at a 'Critical Look': Castaneda Recrudescent," Journal of Mind and Behavior 5: 501-504

1985 "Riding on a White Cloud: Aesthetics as Religion in China," Religion 15: 3-27

1985 "Sa-men hsin-yang yü shen-mi ching-yen: Tsai tsao-ch'i Chung-kuo yü hsien-tai Ou-chi-pei-wa tsung-chiao chung te kuan-hsi,"

            trans. by Lai Chien-ch'eng, Shih-tzu hou 24 [in 3 parts]: 1: 28-31, 2: 26-31, 3: 22-27

1986 "The Feng in Protohistoric Chinese Religion," History of Religions 25: 213-235

1986 "Shamanism and the Mystic Experience: The Relationship in Early Chinese and Modern Ojibwa Religions" (Part 1),

            Fo hsüeh i ts'ui (Selected Translations in Buddhist Studies) 1,1: 1-45

1986 "The Divine Principle, The Bible From a Korean Perspective," Studies in Religion 15: 450-460

1987 "Art and Religion in Contemporary China," Journal of Chinese Religions 15: 51-60

1987 "Cosmological Implications of Pan-Indian Sacred Pipe Ritual," Canadian Journal of Native Studies 7,2: 297-307

            (special issue, Amerindian Cosmology,  published jointly as Cosmos 4 [1988])

1987 "The Ritual Core of Chinese Religion," Religious Studies and Theology 17 (2&3): 19-35

1989 "The Sacred Pipe: The Historical Context of Pan-Indian Religion," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56: 643-665

1989 "Hung Hsiu-ch'üan tui Sheng-ching hsin-yüeh de p'i chieh" [Hung Hsiu-ch'üan's interpretation of the New Testament], trans. by

            Lai Chien-ch'eng, Shih-tzu hou 28 [in two parts] 8: 25-30; 9

1989 "The Normative East Asian Understanding of Christian Scriptures," Studies in Religion 18: 451-65

1990 "The Persistence of Female Spirits in Patriarchal China," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6: 25-40

1990 "Notes on Recent Developments Regarding Religion in Taiwan," Journal of Chinese Religions 18: 163-65

1990 "Comparative Cosmology and the Concepts of Good & Evil, Male &  Female," Explorations 8: 17-28

1990 "'Sweat Lodge': A Northern Native American Ritual for Communal Shamanic Trance," Temenos 26: 85-94

1992 "Further Notes on Contemporary Chinese Religion--1992," J. of Chinese Religions 20: 215-220

1993 "Methodological Controversies in the Study of Native American Religions," Studies in Religion 22: 365-77

1993 "A Material Case for a Late Bering Straight Crossing Coincident with Potential Trans-Pacific Crossings," Sino-Platonic Papers 39: 1-17

1993 "Wai lai zongjiao yu zhongguo wenhua: Bijiao moshi," Zhou Guoli,  trans., Shijie zongjiao ziliao 1993/1: 15-20

1995 with Li Chuang Paper, "Matrifocal Rituals in Patrilineal Chinese Religion: The Variability of Patriarchality,"

            International J. of Comparative Religion and Philosophy 1/2: 27-39.

1996 "Mediums and Modernity: The Institutionalization of Ecstatic Religious  Functionaries in Taiwan," Journal of Chinese Religions

            25: 105-29

1996 "A Note on Contemporary Religion in Taiwan: Domestic Architecture," Journal of Chinese Religions 25: 101-104

1996 with Kenn Pitawanakwat, "Communicating the Intangible: An Anishnabe Story," American Indian Quarterly 20: 451-67

1997 - "'Tutengzhi' - yige guoshi de gainan" ("Totemism" as an Outdated Concept), Sun Qigang, trans., Zhongguo Lishi Bowuguan Guankan (Bulletin of the National Museum of Chinese History) 1997/1

1997 "Female Rituals and Female Priestly Roles in Traditional Chinese Religion," Canadian Woman Studies 17/1 (Winter): 97-99

1999 "Eremitism in China," Journal of Asian and African Studies 34: 46-55

1999 "Introduction -- Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Wordly Engagement," Journal of Asian and African Philosophy 34: 1-3

2006 "To Approach an Other: Ethnohermeneutics and the Study of Religion,” Caminhos (Brazil), 4/1: 73-94.

2012 "Response to Kelly James Clark and Justin T. Winslett, ‘The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion: Pre-Qin High Gods and Punsihers and Rewarders’ 79/4: 928-960,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80/2, 518-21.

Forthcoming, "A New Approach to Understanding Chinese Religion,” 華人宗教研究 (Studies in Chinese Religion [Taipei]).

 

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1980 "'Religion' and Chinese Culture: A Functional Definition and Suggested Approach," Michael Pye and Peter McKenzie, eds.,

            History of Religions (Leicester, England: Leicester Studies in Religion II)

1984 "The Feng in Proto-historic Chinese Religion: The Application of Later Texts to Early Bronze Decor," Yamamoto Tatsuro, ed.,

            Proceedings of the 31st International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa (Tokyo: Toho Gakkai): Vol. 1

1989 Hubert Siewert (et al), "The Institutional Context of the History of Religions in China," Michael Pye, ed., Marburg Revisited,

            Institutions and Strategies in the Study of Religion (Marburg: diagonal-Verlag)

1990 "Landscape and Sacred Space in Native North American Religions," Joan M. Vastokas, ed., Perspectives of Canadian

            Landscape: Native Traditions (North York, Ont.: York University, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies): 44-54

1990 "Chinese Landscape Painting as Religious Iconography and Experience," Joan M. Vastokas, ed., Perspectives on Canadian

            Landscape: Impact of Asia (North York, On.: York University, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies): 44-54

1991 "Religious Studies: Time to Move From A Eurocentric Bias?" Klaus Klostermaier & Larry Hurtado, eds., Religious Studies:

            Issues, Prospects and Proposals (Atlanta: Scholars Press): 73-84

1992 "The Iroquoian and Pan-Indian Sacred Pipes: Comparative Ritual and Symbolism," Charles F. Hayes III, ed., Proceedings of the 1989 Smoking Pipe Conference: Selected Papers (Rochester: Rochester Museum & Science Center): 163-170

1993 "Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change: A Western Eurocentric Paradigm?" Luther H. Martin, ed., Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change: Eastern Europe and Latin America (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter): 61-72

1994 "Slighted Grandmothers: The Need for Increased Research on Female Spirits and Spirituality in Native American Religions,"

            Ugo Bianchi, ed., The Notion of "Religion" in Comparative Research: Selected Proceedings of the XVI IAHR Congress

            (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider): 215-224

1995 "Foreign Religions and Chinese Culture: Comparative Paradigms," Dai Kangsheng, Zhang Yinying, Michael Pye, eds.,

            Religion and Modernization in China: Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Association for the

            History of Religions, Beijing, China, April 1992 (Cambridge, England: Roots and Branches): 167-78

1995 with Li Chuang Paper "Chinese Religion," Harold Coward, ed., Population and the Environment: Population Pressures,

            Resource Consumption, Religions and Ethics (Albany: SUNY Press): 173-91

1996 "Religions in Contact: The Effects of Domination from a Comparative Perspective," Iva Doleñalová, BÍetislav Horyna, & Dalibor

            Papoušek, eds., Religions in Contact: Selected Proceedings of the Special IAHR Conference, Brno, August 1994 (Brno:

            Czech Society for the Study of Religion): 39-56

2001 "'Daoism' and 'Deep Ecology': Fantasy and Potentiality," Norman Girardot & Livia Kohn, eds., Daoism and Ecology (Cambridge,  Mass.: Harvard University Press): 3-21

2004 “Wisdom as Non-Wisdom in the Zhuangzi, the Prajnaparamita, and Meister Eckhart,” in    Vincent Shen & Willard Oxtoby, eds., Wisdom in China and the West (Washington DC: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy): 21-31.

2006 “Humans and Animals: The History from a Religio-Ecological Perspective,” Kimberly Patton & Paul Waldau, A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (New York: Columbia University Press): 325-32.

2009 “The Role of Possession Trance in Chinese Culture and Religion: A Comparative Overview from the Neolithic to the Present," in Philip Clart & Paul Crow, eds., The People and The Dao: New Studies in Chinese Religion in Honor of Daniel L. Overmeyer," Monumenta Serica Monograph LX: 327-48.

 

Other Publications

1985 "Further Notes on the Ratcliffe "Dragon" Pipe", Iowa Archaeological Society Newsletter 35/2:1-2.

2009 "Chinese Policies Regarding Religion And Chinese Judaism,” Points East 24/1 (March): 1, 6-8.

 

Reviews and Review Essays published in the Journal of the American Antiquity, American Indian Quarterly, American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Journal of Mind and Behavior, International Journal of Comparative Religion, North American Religion, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Journal of Religion, China Review International, Great Plains Quarterly, Philosophy East and West, The Journal of Religion, De Numine (too many to record).

 

Presentations

PRESENTATIONS

Plenum & Similar Addresses

Plenum Address: International Association for the History of Religions Conference  on Circumpolar and Northern Religion in celebration of

            the 350th anniversary of the University of Helsinki, 1990.

Plenum Address: (First) International Academic Conference on Religion, sponsored by the Chinese Association for the Study of Religion,

            (Beijing) 1992.

Keynote speaker in re China: International Summer Institute - "Population and the Environment: Population Pressures, Resource

            Consumption, Religions and Ethics," Whistler, B.C., 1993

Bishop White Lecture - Royal Ontario Museum: "Eating with the Ancestors: The Experience of Chinese Religion," 1994

Keynote speaker in re China: conference on "Religion and Ecology: Forging an Environmental Ethic Across Traditions," Cambridge,

            Mass., 1997

Plenum Address: "The Monotheistic Basis of Contemporary Western Feminism: A Polytheistic Critique," Annual Meeting of the

            Canadian Society for the    Study of Religion, Ottawa, 1998

Lead Paper: "'Daoism' and 'Deep Ecology': Fantasy and Potentiality," Institute for the Study of World Religions, conference on

            "Daoism and Ecology," Harvard University, 1998

Lead Paper: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Germany) conference on Chinesische Historiographie und Gesichtskultur in

            vergleichender Perspektice: Religion, Ritual and Myth: "The European Construction of Chinese Religion," 1999

Distinguished Lecture Series: "Chinese Religion and Healing," Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria , 2002

Keynote Address with discussants: The Insider-Outsider Conundrum in Religious Studies: Reflections on a Half-Century's Personal Experience,"

            International Association for the History of Religions regional conference: "Religion on the Borders," Stockholm, 2007.

Special Address: "Judaism as a Global Religion, and Its Denial by Contemporary Western Jews,"

            Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Vancouver, 2008.

Invited Speaker: "The Impact of the West on the Understanding of Chinese Religion,” Republic of China Centenary International

            Conference on Retrospects and Prospects: Religion in Taiwan, Taipei 2011.

Invited Speaker: "Problems in the Anthropology of Prehistoric Religions: The Case of Çatalhöyük,” Symposium on the

            Anthropology of Religion, Institute for World Religions, Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 2012.

 

 

Lectures Abroad

1986 China

1) National Historical Museum, Beijing;

2) National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, & local art associations in Jiangsu & Jiangsi Provinces

 

1986 Sweden: University of Stockholm, Institute for Comparative Religions

 

1992 China: National Historical Museum, Beijing

 

1992 Scandinavia

1) University of Stockholm, Institute for Comparative Religions

2) University of Aarhus, Department of Theology

 

1995 China (Beijing):

1) Institute for the Study of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

2) National Institute for Folklore Studies (Study of Chinese Popular Religion)

3) National Historical Museum

 

1999 England (Oxford): Westminister College

 

2003 Brazil;

1) Pontifíca Universidade Católica de São Paulo

2) Universidade Católica de Goiás

 

2012 China (Beijing)

Beijing Normal University, Institute for Folklore Studies (Chinese Religion):

Lecture Series l: Chinese Judaism – “The Enigma of the Chinese Jews,” “The Theology of the Chinese Jews”

Lecture Series ll: New Perspectives on Chinese Religion – “The Christian Imposition on Chinese Religion, “Chinese Religion from a Global Perspective”