July 30, 2019
by Steve Angle
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Lafayette College in Easton, PA, announces a full-time, tenure-track position in the Department of Religious Studies at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2020, with specialization in religious traditions of East Asia. Details are available here.
April 28, 2019
by Yihan Lin
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Schneewind, S. (2018). Shrines to living men in the Ming political cosmos. Cambridge, MA: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 9780674987142. Please see the publisher website for more information.
March 13, 2019
by Hans-Georg Moeller
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The Issue is Not the Issue: A Podcast with Hans-Georg Moeller and Dan Sarafinas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfs0MY7rs8J6jWlCdneoPVQ Hans-Georg Moeller and Dan Sarafinas discuss contemporary debates on “political correctness” and related moral and social issues. They point to concepts such as virtue … Continue reading
February 18, 2019
by Yihan Lin
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SUMMARY Heaven is Empty offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s … Continue reading
December 28, 2018
by Steve Angle
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As far as I can tell, Berkeley is still looking for potential candidates for short-term lecturer positions in “Chinese Religious Traditions”…
December 28, 2018
by Hans-Georg Moeller
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Hans-Georg Moeller and Dan Sarafinas discuss contemporary debates on “political correctness” and related moral and social issues. They point to concepts such as virtue speech (“virtue signalling”), civil religion, and the role of critique to better understand their nature. Episode 1–Virtue Speech: … Continue reading
October 6, 2018
by Steve Angle
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Vol. 46, no. 2 (November 2018) of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now online at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjch20/current?nav=tocList. Read on for the Table of Contents, which includes reviews of Michael Ing’s The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought and Geoffrey Redmond’s translation … Continue reading
October 2, 2018
by Steve Angle
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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES, OBERLIN COLLEGE FACULTY TENURE TRACK POSITION AVAILABLE Title: East Asian Religions Job Summary: The East Asian Studies Program and Religion Department at Oberlin College invite applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in East … Continue reading
August 10, 2018
by Steve Angle
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Larry Whitney at BU recently told me about fascinating videos of the Autumnal Sacrifice to Confucius at the Confucius temple in Tainan, Taiwan. Thomas A. Wilson video recorded the sacrifice in 1998 and it’s been posted on his website here.
May 26, 2018
by Steve Angle
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Animals and Religion in Asia (Tel Aviv University, May 27-29, 2018)
