Current Faculty Publications:
JAMES DOBBINS
Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Paperback edition. Honolulu:University of Hawaii, 2003.
Ed., "The Legacy of Kuroda Toshio." Special issue of Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23.3-4 (Fall 1996).
"Portraits of Shinran in Medieval Pure Land Buddhism," in Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context, eds. Robert Sharf and Elizabeth Horton. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 19-48, 208-212.
"Envisioning Kamakura Buddhism," in Re-Visioning Kamakura Buddhism, ed. Richard Payne, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998, pp. 24-42.
"Women's Birth in Pure Land as Women--Intimations from the Letters of Eshinni," in The Eastern Buddhist (N.S.) 28.1 (Spring 1995): 108-22.
ANNA GADE
"Taste, Talent, and the Problem of Internalization: A Qur'anic Study in Religious Musicality from Southeast Asia." History of Religions: vol. 41, no. 4 (May, 2002), pp. 328-368.
Perfection Makes Practice: Learning,Emotion and the Recited Qur'an in Indonesia. University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.
DAVID KAMITSUKA
Theology and Contemporary Culture: Liberation, Postliberal, and Revisionary Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999."Paul Tillich," Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religion. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2000."Salvation, Liberation and Christian Character Formation" Modern Theology, Volum 13, Number 2 (1997).
"The Justification of Religious Belief in the Pluralistic Public Realm" Journal of Religion, Volume 79, Number 4 (1996).
JOYCE MCCLURE
"The Contingency of Solidarity: A Pragmatic Critique of Richard Rorty's Philosophy" in Horizons, vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring 2001).
Finite, Contingent, and Free: A New Ethics of Acceptance, forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield.
A.G. MILLER
Theophilus G. Stweard, Black Theology, and The Making of An African-American Civil Society, 1865-1924 Knoxville: University of Tennesee Press, 2002.
PAULA RICHMAN
Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text. Syracuse, NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1988.Cmp. & Tr., Extraordinary Child: Poems From a South Indian Devotional Genre. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.Ed., Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Ed., Questioning Ramayanas: a South Asian tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press and New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
ABRAHAM SOCHER
"Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning," Jewish Social Studies, Vol 6, no. 1 (Fall, 1999).
"R. Avraham de Bottom's Lehem Mishneh and the Intellectual Context of 16th-Century Salonika," in Menahem Ben Sasson and Warren Z. Harvey eds., Studies in a Rabbinic Family: he De Botons (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1998).
GROVER A. ZINN
and William W. Kibler, ed., Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.
Intro. and Tr., Richard of St. Victor: The Twelve Patriarchs; The Mystical Ark; Book Three of the Trinity. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1979.
"Hugh of St. Victor's De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris as an Accessus Treatise for the Study of the Bible." Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion 52 (1997): 111-134.
"Exegesis and Spirituality in the Writings of Gregory the Great," in Gregory the Great: A Symposium, ed. John Cavadini Notre Dame Studies in Theology, 2. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996, pp. 168-180.
"Hugh of St. Victor, Isaiah's Vision, and De arca Noe," in The Church and the Arts, ed. Diana Wood Studies in Church History, 28. 1992, pp. 99-116.
Former Faculty Publications:
RACHEL ELIOR
The Paradoxical Ascent to God, the Mystical Theosophy of Habad. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
''The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background 1939-1996,'' in Toward the Millennium, Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco, eds. Peter Schafer and Mark Cohen. Leiden: Brill, 1998, pp. 383-408.
"Not All is in the Hands of Heaven: Eschatology and Kabbalah," in Eschatology In the Bible and In the Jewish Christian Tradition, ed. Henning Graf Reventlow, The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 243. Bath: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997: 49-61.
"R. Nathan Adler and the Frankfurt Pietists in the 18th century," in Judische Kultur in Frankfurt am Main, von den Anfagen bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Karl Grozinger. Weisbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 1997, pp. 135-177.
HARRY THOMAS FRANK
Bible, Archaeology, and Faith. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1971.
The Bible Through the Ages. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1967.
Discovering the Biblical World. Maplewood, N.J.: Hammond, 1975.
and William l. Reed, eds., Translating & Understanding the Old Testament: Essays in Honor of Herbert Gordon May. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970.
ELIZABETH LEIGH GIBSON
The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporan Kingdom, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism. Tübingen: Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 1999.
"Jewish Antagonism or Christian Polemic: the Case of the Martyrdom of Pionius," Journal of Early Christian Studies 2001.
ELLIOT KIBA GINSBURG
The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah. Albany: State University of New York, 1989.
Tr., Sod ha-Shabbat = The mystery of the Sabbath. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
CLYDE A. HOLBROOK
The Ethics of Jonathan Edwards; Morality and Aesthetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
The Iconoclastic Deity: Biblical Images of God. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1984.
Jonathan Edwards, the Valley and Nature: an Interpretative Essay. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1987.
Religion, a humanistic field. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
WILLARD L. JOHNSON
Poetry and Speculation of the Rg Veda. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Riding the Ox Home: a History of Meditation from Shamanism to Science. London: Rider, 1982.
and Richard H. Robinson. The Buddhist Religion: a Historical Introduction. Encino, CA: Dickenson Pub. Co., 1977.
RUSSELL KIRKLAND
"Responsible Non-Action in a Natural World," in Taoism and Ecology, eds. Norman Girardot, Liu Xiaogan, and James Miller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
"The Historical Contours of Taoism in China," in Journal of Chinese Religions 25 (1997), pp. 57-82
"Person and Culture in the Taoist Tradition," in Journal of Chinese Religions 20 (1992), pp. 77-90.
"The Roots of Altruism in the Taoist Tradition," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54 (1986), pp. 59-77.
MILES KRASSEN
Tr., Toldat Adam, by Isaiah Horowitz. New York : Paulist Press, 1996.
Uniter of Heaven and Earth : Rabbi Meshullam Feibush Heller of Zbarazh and the Rise of Hasidism in Eastern Galicia. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1998.
CHARLES H. LIPPY
The Christadelphians in North America. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989.
Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
and Robert H. Krapohl, The Evangelicals: A Historical, Thematic, and Biographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.
and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience, 3 vols. New York: Scribners, 1988.
EDWARD LEROY LONG
A Survey of Recent Christian Ethics. New York: Oxford, 1982.
Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1992.
To Liberate and Redeem: Moral Reflections on the Biblical Narrative. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1997.
Patterns of Polity: Varieties of Church Governance. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2001.
MIRIAM LEVERING
Levering, Miriam, ed. Rethinking scripture: essays from a comparative perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
"The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of Mo-shan: Gender and Status in the Ch'an Buddhist Tradition," Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 5:1 (1982): 19-35.
"Dogen's 'Raihaitokuzui' and Women Teaching in Sung Ch'an," Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 1998.
"Miao-tao and her Teacher Ta-hui," in Buddhism in the Sung, Peter N. Gregory and Daniel A. Getz Jr. eds. Kuroda Institute/University of Hawaii, 1999, pp. 188-219.
GILBERT MEILAENDER
Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics. University of Notre Dame Press, 1981.
The Theory and Practice of Virtue. University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics. University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
Body, Soul, and Bioethics. University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits. University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.
The limits of love: some theological explorations. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.
GORDON E. MICHALSON
Fallen Freedom: Kant on Radical Evil and Moral Regeneration. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kant and the Problem of God. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
Lessing's "Ugly Ditch": a Study of Theology and History. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.
Co-ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993.
JAMES MORRIS
The wisdom of the throne : an introduction to the philosophy of Mulla Sadra. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1981.
"The Philosopher-Prophet in Avicenna's Political Philosophy" in The Political aspects of Islamic philosophy : essays in honor of Muhsin S. Mahdi, ed. Charles E. Butterworth. Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, 1992
DANIEL OVERMYER
Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. Cambridge MA.: Harvad University Press, 1976.
and David K. Jordan, The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Religions of China: The World as a Living System. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.
Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.
MONICA RINGER
Education, Religion and the Discourse of Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishing, 2001.
LARRY D. SHINN
The Dark Lord: Cult Images and the Hare Krishnas in America. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.
Two Sacred Worlds: Experience and Structure in the World's Religions. Nashville: Abingdon, 1977.
and Roy C. Amore. Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings: Buddhist and Hindu Stories of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
with Keith Crim and Roger A. Bullard, eds., Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981.
and David G. Bromley, eds., Krishna Consciousness in the West. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London, Cranbury NJ: Associated University Presses, 1989.
DONALD SWEARER
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
The Legend of Queen Cama. Camadevivamsa (with Sommai Premchit). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
and Russel Sizemore, eds., Ethics, Wealth and Salvation. A Study in Buddhist Social Ethics. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.
"Bhikkhu Buddhadasa's Interpretation of the Buddha," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LXIV/2 (Fall, 1996): 91-114.
"Buddhist Virtue, Voluntary Povery, and Extensive Benevolence," in Journal of Religious Ethics, 26:1 (Spring, 1998): 71-103.
JAMES MELVIN WASHINGTON
Washington, James Melvin, ed., Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans. New York: HarperCollings Publishers, 1994.
Dixie, Quinton Hosford, and Cornel West, eds., The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption: Essays in Honor of James Melvin Washington. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Frustrated Fellowship: the Black Baptist Quest for Social Power. Macon, GA: Mercer, 1986.
Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: the Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, ed. James Melvin Washington. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991; Harper & Row, 1986.
L. MICHAEL WHITE
The Tabula of Cebes: text and Translation, with Introduction and Notes. By J.T. Fitzgerald and L.M White. Society of Biblical Literature Text and Translations Series, 24; Graeco-Roman Religions Series, 7. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983.
Building God's House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University University Press, 1990.
Social Networks in the Early Christian Environment: Issues and Methods for Social History. Edited by L.M. White. SEMEIA 56; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991.
The Social World of the First Christians" Essays in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks. Edited by L.M. White and O.L. Yarbrough. Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress, 1995.
AMY WORDELMAN
"Everyday Life: Women in the Period of the New Testament," in The Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe (Westminster/John Knox, 1992, reissued expanded edition 1998), pp. 390-396.
DONNA WULFF
Drama as a Mode of Religious Realization: The Vidagdhamadhava of Rupa Gosvami. Chico, California: Scholars Press. American Academy of Religion Academy Series, No.43, 1984.
and John Stratton Hawley, eds., Devi: Goddesses of India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
"On Practicing Religiously: Music as Sacred in India," in Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice, ed. Joyce Irwin, Journal of American Academy of Religion, Thematic Studies 50/1 Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1993: 149-72.
"Religion in a New Mode: Aesthetics and Supreme Realization in Medieval India." in Journal of the American Academy of Religion LIV/4 (Winter 1987), pp. 673-88.
HOSSEIN ZIAI
with Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi and John Walbridge, translators and eds., The Philosophy of Illumination: a New Critical Edition of the Text of Hikmat Al-Ishraq. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1999.
Knowledge and Illumination: a Study of Suhrawardi's Hikmat Al-Ishraq. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990.
