Comparative Religion
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Stephen Covell
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Mary Meader Professor of Comparative Religion, Associate Professor Japanese Religions 2006 Moore Hall (269) 387-4365 scovell@wmich.edu |
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.