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NAME: Jordan Paper
E-MAIL: jpaper@yorku.ca
PRESENT POSITIONS
Professor Emeritus of
Humanities and Senior Scholar, Faculty of Arts
Religious
Studies Program
East
Asian Studies Program
Associate Fellow: Centre for
Studies in Religion & Society
Adjunct Professor: Faculty
of Graduate Studies
Indigenous Governance Program
EDUCATION & DEGREES
A.B. 1960,
Psychology, 1956-60
Oriental Institute, 1961-63
M.A. 1965,
East Asian Civ.1963-65
Ph.D. 1971
Chinese Lang. & Lit., 1966-67
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT (full-time):
1967-72, Assistant
Professor,
1972-04, Assistant,
Associate, Full Professor,
1973-74, Visiting Professor,
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
Canadian Representative, International
Committee (governing body) (1993-95)
[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)
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
(prior to retirement at
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 (
Understanding Christianity and Anishnabe
Spirituality"
1991-1997:
"Places of Power: Sacred Sites, Gaia's
Pilgrims, and the Politics of Landscape"
1999-2002:
Locating the Feminist in the Liturgy, Ritual, and
Theology of Contemporary Jewish Renewal"
2004-2005:
to Couple Therapy”
M.A.
1983-2002:
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:
M.F.A. 1983-85:
M.S.W. 1995-96:
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 (
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
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 (
1989
(
1985: Canadian Federation
for the Humanities subvention: The "Fu-tzu":
A Post-Han Confucian Text
1986: SSHRC grant for
lecturing abroad -
1996: SSHRC conference grant
- $10,000: Conference on Female Spirituality
SSHRC grant for
international representation - 1990 (
ONGOING MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS
1) “The Theology of
the Chinese Jews”: present project
2) "Pacific Rim
Traditional Religions" long-term project
3) "Religious
Constructs in the Development of Human Cultures": potential project
PUBLICATIONS (total: 96, 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 (
1988 Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion (
with
1995 The Spirits are
Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion (
pages
1997 Through the Earth
Darkly: Female Spirituality in Comparative Perspective (
2004 The Mystic Experience: A
Descriptive and Comparative Analysis (
2005 The Deities Are
Many: A Polytheistic Theology (
Other Books and
Monographs - Reference works,
textbooks, museum exhibition catalogues:
1973 An Index to Stories
of the Supernatural in the "Fa yüan chu
lin" (
1973 Guide to Chinese
Prose (
1984 Guide to Chinese
Prose, 2nd ed., completely revised (
1985 "Clouds as
Waves, Petals as Rain": Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy, Painting and Prints [exhibition
catalogue]
(North York, Ont.:
1998 Chinese Religion
Illustrated (
2002 with Barry Till, Refined
Tastes: The Literati Style of China and Japan [exhibition
catalogue] (
Art Gallery of Greater
In preparation Native American Religious Traditions (Praeger, expected publication date - 2007)
Chapters in Books
1984 "Amerindian
Spirituality," chap. 1 in L. Holton, ed., Spirit of
1986 "Fu Hsüan," William Nienhauser,
Jr., ed.,
1991 Entries on Native
American Religions, Editorial Board, World Scriptures: A Comparitive
Anthology of Sacred Texts
(
1993 Entries on Native
American Religions, Michael Pye, ed., Macmillan
Dictionary of Religion (
1994 "Religion,"
Patrick D. Murphy & Wu Dingpo, eds., Handbook of
Chinese Popular Culture (
1998 "An Early Clan
Origin Myth: Shih (Scripture of Odes), Ode 245," Jordan Paper, ed., The
(
1998 "A Condemnation of
Buddhism: Han Yü's 'Memorial to the Throne of a Bone of
the Buddha,'" Jordan Paper, ed.,
The
1998 "'The Garden for
Pleasure in Solitude': By Ssu-Ma Kuang,"Jordan
Paper, ed., The
(
1998 "'Red Cliff Fu I':
By Su Shih," Jordan Paper, ed., The
1998 "Menarche (First
Menstruation) Rituals," Encyclopedia of Women and Religion (
2005 "A Religio-Ecological Perspective on Religion and
Nature," The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (
Thoemmes Continuum).
2005 "Anishnabeg Culture," The Encyclopedia of Religion
and Nature (
2005 "Chinese
Traditional Concepts of Nature," Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
(
2005 "Sacred
Pipe," Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions (
2005 "Tobacco, Sacred
Use of" Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions (
2005
"Female Spirituality." Encyclopedia
of American Indian Religious Traditions (
2005 "Ceremony and
Ritual, Anishnabe," Encyclopedia of American
Indian Religious Traditions (
forthcoming "Native Traditions," Encyclopedia of
Religion in Canada (
Articles in Refereed
Books
1977 "A Shaman in Contemporary
1989 "Fu Hsüan as
Poet: A Man of His Season," Tse-Tsung Chow, ed.,
Wen-lin, Vol. 2 (Hong Kong: Chinese
1990 "Through The Earth Darkly: The Female Deity in Native American
Religions," Christopher Vecsey, ed., Religion
in Native
North America
(
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. (
1999 "Conversion From
Within and Without in Chinese Religion," M. Darrol
Bryant & Christopher Lamb, Religious Conversion:
Contemporary Practices and Controversies (
2001 "Chinese Religion,
'Daoism', and Deep Ecology," David Barnhill & Roger Gottlieb, eds., Deep
Ecology and World Religions
(
2005 with David Lai & Li Chuang
Paper, “Chinese in
forthcoming, “Aboriginal/First Nations Spritualities,”
in Jamie Scott, ed., The Religion of
Canadians (
forthcoming, with Kenn Pitawankwat, “The Nishnabe
Term for Ritual,” in Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek & Michael Strausberg,
eds., Theorizing Rituals (Leiden: Brill)
forthcoming, “Understanding Death and Dying From a Relgio-Ecological Perspective,” in Christopher M. Moreman, ed., Teaching
Death and Dying (Oxford University Press)
Articles in Refereed
Journals
1971 "The Ch'un meng so yen (Trifling Tale of a Spring Dream), An Erotic
Literary Chinese Tale," Nachrichten (
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
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
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
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
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
1990 "Notes on Recent
Developments Regarding Religion in
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
25: 105-29
1996 "A Note on
Contemporary Religion in
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
1997 "Female Rituals
and Female Priestly Roles in Traditional Chinese Religion," Canadian
Woman Studies 17/1 (Winter): 97-99
1999 "Eremitism in
1999 "Introduction --
Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Wordly
Engagement," Journal of Asian and African Philosophy 34: 1-3
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 (
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 (
1989 Hubert Siewert (et al), "The Institutional Context of the
History of Religions in
Institutions and Strategies in the Study of Religion (
1990 "Landscape and
Sacred Space in Native North American Religions," Joan M. Vastokas, ed., Perspectives of Canadian
Landscape: Native Traditions (North York, Ont.:
1990 "Chinese Landscape
Painting as Religious Iconography and Experience," Joan M. Vastokas, ed., Perspectives on Canadian
Landscape: Impact of Asia (North York, On.:
1991 "Religious Studies:
Time to Move From A Eurocentric Bias?" Klaus Klostermaier & Larry Hurtado,
eds., Religious Studies:
Issues, Prospects and Proposals (
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 (
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 (
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
(
1995 "Foreign Religions
and Chinese Culture: Comparative Paradigms," Dai Kangsheng,
Zhang Yinying, Michael Pye,
eds.,
Religion and Modernization in
History of Religions,
1995 with Li Chuang Paper "Chinese Religion," Harold Coward,
ed., Population and the Environment: Population Pressures,
Resource Consumption, Religions and Ethics (
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,
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 (
2004 “Wisdom as Non-Wisdom in the Zhuangzi, the Prajnaparamita,
and Meister Eckhart,” in Vincent Shen
& Willard Oxtoby, eds., Wisdom in
forthcoming "Humans and Animals: The History from a Religio-Ecological Perspective," Kimberly Patton &
Paul Waldau,
A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science,
and Ethics (
forthcoming “The Role of Possession Trance in Chinese
Culture and Religion: An 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
Other
Publications
1985 "Further Notes on
the Ratcliffe "Dragon" Pipe",
Reviews and Review Essays published in the Journal of the American Antiquity,
American Indian Quarterly, American Oriental Society, Journal
of the
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
Quarterly,
Philosophy East and West, The Journal of Religion, De Numine
(too many to record).
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
Plenum Address: (First)
International Academic Conference on Religion, sponsored by the Chinese
Association for the Study of Religion,
(
Keynote speaker in re
Consumption, Religions and Ethics," Whistler, B.C.,
1993
Bishop White Lecture -
Keynote speaker in re
Plenum Address: "The
Monotheistic Basis of Contemporary Western Feminism: A Polytheistic
Critique," Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion,
Lead Paper: "'Daoism'
and 'Deep Ecology': Fantasy and Potentiality," Institute for the Study of
World Religions, conference on
"Daoism and Ecology,"
Lead Paper: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (
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,
Lectures Abroad
1986
1) National Historical
Museum,
2)
1986
1992
1992
1)
2)
1995
1) Institute for the Study
of World Religions,
2) National Institute for
Folklore Studies (Study of Chinese Popular Religion)
3) National Historical
Museum
1999
2003
1)
Pontifíca Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2)
Universidade Católica de Goiás