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Education:
Dr. Covell received his Ph.D. from Princeton University 2001. He also holds
and MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai'i and a BA in Political
Science from UCSD. He was a research student and later postdoc at Tokyo University
and attended the Inter-university Center for Japanese Language Education in
Yokohama.
Recent Publications:
Covell, Stephen G. 2005. Japanese Temple Buddhism. Edited by G. Tanabe,
Contemporary Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
---. 2005. Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. In Buddhism in World Cultures:
Comparative Perspectives, edited by S. C. Berkwitz. ABC-CLIO.
Covell, Stephen G., and Mark Rowe, eds. 2004. Traditional Buddhism in Contemporary
Japan. Vol. 31/2, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.
Current Research:
Dr. Covell's research focuses on contemporary Japanese Buddhism. He has
over ten years experience of living and conducting research in Japan including
stints as a research associate at Taisho University, the Institute for Asian
Cultural Studies at International Christian University and Tokyo University.
He is current research interests and writing projects include:
- a book Buddhist education in contemporary Japan,
- a book on Buddhist preaching in modern Japan,
- a biography of Yamada Etai
- a textbook on death and dying in Asia
Teaching:
Dr. Covell is responsible for teaching COR 3080, Japanese Religions, on
a regular basis. He also regularly teaches COR 6150, a pedagogy course for graduate
students. He has taught seminars on Religion and Ethics in Asia, Death and Dying
in Asia, and Religion and Education. He is also the director of the study abroad
course Japanese Religion and Culture (see http://homepages.wmich.edu/~scovell)
About:
Dr. Covell is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Religion
and director of the Soga Japan Center at Western Michigan University.
Soga Japan Center
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