Buddhist Warfare
Michael Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer
Author Information
Michael Jerryson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.
Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Contributors:
BERNARD FAURE is the Kao Professor of Japanese Religion at Columbia University. He received his PhD (Doctorat d'Etat) from Paris University in 1984. His work has focused on topics such as the construction of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the Buddhist cult of relics, iconography, sexuality and gender. His current research deals with the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism and its relationships with medieval Japanese religion. He has published a number of books in French and English. His most recent English publications include: The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality, The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender, and Double Exposure. He is presently working on a book on Japanese Gods and Demons.
STEPHEN JENKINS was trained at Harvard University and is currently Chair of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University. His doctoral work and publications focus on problems in the interpretation of compassion in the Indian Buddhist literature.
MICHAEL JERRYSON is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College. His publications have surveyed religious traditions from across Asia, including Singapore and most recently Thailand. One of the more recent publications, Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Sangha, explores the development of Mongolia's state religion until its demise in the twentieth century under the Soviet Union.
MARK JUERGENSMEYER is professor of sociology and global studies, and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or editor of twenty books on global religion and politics including Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, and Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence.
MICHELLE KENDALL is a published translator of The Cradle of Humanity and The Unfinished System of Non-Knowledgy by George Bataille and Sade and Lautreamont by Maurice Blanchot. Currently, she is pursuing her doctorate in French Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
DANIEL KENT received his PhD in religious studies from the University of Virginia with a dissertation entitled "Shelter for You, Nirvana for Our Son's: Buddhist Belief and Practice in the Sri Lankan Army." His dissertation is based on extensive ethnographic research on two different military bases in Sri Lanka. Daniel is currently revising his dissertation for publication, beginning work on a new project on Buddhist-Muslim tensions in contemporary Sri Lanka and teaching courses on Theravada Buddhism at the University of Virginia and Mary Baldwin College.
DEREK MAHER received his PhD in History of Religions and Tibetan Studies from the University of Virginia. He now teaches at East Carolina University, where he is the co-director of the Religious Studies Program. He writes about religious biographical writing, the intersection of religion and politics, and religious history. His annotated translation of Tsepon Shakabpa's One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet is forthcoming from Brill Academic Press and his co-edited volume, Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
BRIAN DAIZEN VICTORIA is a native of Omaha, Nebraska and a 1961 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. He holds a M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Soto Zen sect-affiliated Komazawa University in Tokyo, and a PhD from the Department of Religious Studies at Temple University. In addition to his most recent book, Zen War Stories, Brian's major writings include Zen At War, an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest). Currently, Brian is a Professor of Japanese Studies at Antioch University and Director of the AEA Buddhist Studies in Japan Program.
VESNA WALLACE is a holder of the Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford. She has published several books and a series of articles on Indian esoteric Buddhism and on different aspects of Mongolian Buddhism.
XUE YU has undertaken Buddhist studies for more than 25 years. He studied Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, and Chinese Buddhism in China, Sri Lanka, Japan, and the United States. Having received a PhD degree from the University of Iowa in 2003, he began the research on Buddhism and modern society, particularly, humanistic Buddhism. Xue Yu is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also serves as the Director for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism jointly sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Foguan Shan. His recent book entitled Buddhism, War, and Nationalism investigates the activities of Chinese monks and nuns against Japanese aggressions during the Republic era (1912-1949).
