Jonathan Herman

Associate Professor
Ph. D., Harvard University
Phone: 404-413-6107
e-mail: jherman2(at)gsu.edu

2003-04 American Academy of Religion Collaborative Research Grant

Dr. Herman is an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Asian Studies at Georgia State University, 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.

Area of Intrest:

Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Comparative Mysticism, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Religion and Popular Culture.

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.

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