Jonathan R. Herman Associate Professor 1110 34 Peachtree St P.O. Box 4089 Atlanta, GA 30302-4089 phone: 404-413-6107 fax: 404-413-6124 e-mail: jherman2@gsu.edu

• B.A. Grinnell College
• M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School
• M.A. Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
• Ph.D. Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
• 2003-04 American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grant

Dr. Herman is an affiliate faculty member with the GSU Center for Asian Studies, an officer in the Society for the Study of Chinese Religion, and co-chair of the Daoist Studies Program Unit for the Annual Meeting of American Academy of Religion.

Courses regularly offered:

• Buddhism
• Confucianism and Taoism
• Zen and Shinto
• Comparative Study of Mysticism
• Topics in Asian Religion
• Theories of Religion
• World Religions

"We fail morally whenever we placate, cheaply, the demands of our individual or collective human conscience." - Kipton E. Jensen

"The mystical illusion is the result of an abstraction which distorts the semantic or structural field of a religious system." -Hans H. Penner

"It is simply unrealistic to expect religious hitory to conform to scholarly expectations." - Jonathan R. Herman

"The historian's task is to complicate not to clarify." -Jonathan Z. Smith

Selected Publications:

"Talkin' 'Bout My Parents' Generation: Confucian Ethics and Family Values," in Education About Asia 8/2 (Fall 2003).

"Dao Unto Others," in Religious Studies Review 28:4 (October 2002), 19-21.

"Human Heart, Heavenly Heart: Mystical Dimensions of Chu Hsi's Neo-Confucianism," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69/1 (March 2001) 103-128.

"Daoist Environmentalism in the West: Ursula K. Le Guin's Reception and Transmission of Daoism," in Norman Girardot, Liu Xiaogan, and James Miller, eds., Daoism and Ecology, (Cambridge: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Press, 2001), 391-406.

"The Contextual Illusion: Comparative Mysticism and Postmodernism," in Kimberley Patton and Benjamin Ray, ed., A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religions in a Postmodern Age, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), 92-100.

I and Tao: Martin Buber's Encounter With Chuang Tzu, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).

Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and War, (London: Routledge, 2004).