Joseph A. Adler (B.A., University of Rochester; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) has taught East Asian
religions at Kenyon since 1987. His field of research is Neo-Confucian
religious thought in China, and he is currently working on two of the
seminal figures of that movement, Zhou Dunyi (11th century) and Zhu Xi
(12th century). He is the author of Chinese Religious Traditions;
translator of Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change,
by Zhu Xi; co-author of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching;
and contributor to Confucianism and Ecology, Sources of
Chinese Tradition (2nd. ed.), Confucian Spirituality (vol.
2), New Qing Imperial History, The Encyclopedia of Religion
(2nd ed.), and Teaching Confucianism. He founded the Confucian
Traditions Group of the American
Academy of Religion in 1992, and from 1997 to 2000 he chaired the
Department of Religion at Kenyon. In 1990 he spent six months in Taiwan
on a language and research fellowship, and in 1996-97 he was Resident
Director of the Japan
Study Program , a study-abroad program at Waseda
University in Tokyo. In 2008 he
became Professor of Asian Studies,
and he currently is Director of the Asian
Studies Program.
Religious Studies Department
Joseph A. Adler (B.A., University of Rochester; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) has taught East Asian
religions at Kenyon since 1987. His field of research is Neo-Confucian
religious thought in China, and he is currently working on two of the
seminal figures of that movement, Zhou Dunyi (11th century) and Zhu Xi
(12th century). He is the author of Chinese Religious Traditions;
translator of Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change,
by Zhu Xi; co-author of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching;
and contributor to Confucianism and Ecology, Sources of
Chinese Tradition (2nd. ed.), Confucian Spirituality (vol.
2), New Qing Imperial History, The Encyclopedia of Religion
(2nd ed.), and Teaching Confucianism. He founded the Confucian
Traditions Group of the 