Hampshire College

Ryan Bongseok Joo, assistant professor of Asian religions, holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (1996), an M.T.S. in the History of Religion from Harvard Divinity School (1999), and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Religion of Princeton University (2007).

A native of Korea, Ryan Joo has studied in China, Taiwan and Japan with funding from the Fulbright-Hays fellowship program, the Japan Foundation and the Center for Chinese Study at the National Taiwan Library. His scholarly interests include medieval Chinese and Korean Buddhism, religion and material culture, Buddhist modernism and transnationalism, and the interaction between religion and state. He is currently working on a book provisionally titled Buddhist Immortals, Eminent Ancestors and Disguised Bodhisattvas: the Cult of Arhat in Medieval China.

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Professor Joo will be on leave for the fall 2011 semester.

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
HACU-0245: Decoding Zen Buddhism: Philosophy, History and Practice (Spring 2012)
HACU-0192: Introduction to the Academic Study of World Religions (Spring 2012)
Introduction to Modern Buddhism: Orientalism Buddhist Psychotherapy Brain Activities of Tibetan Monks (Spring 2010)
Topics in Comparative Religion (Spring 2010)