Eric Reinders
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
S213 Callaway Memorial Center
Additional Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Religion, Emory University
Mailstop: 1535-002-1AA
537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214
Atlanta, GA 30322
Education
- B.A., University of Hull, Yorkshire, England
- M.Phil., University of Hull, Yorkshire, England
- Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997
Biography
Eric Reinders, Associate Professor. He specializes in Chinese religion, Christian missionary cultures, religion and the body, and religion and fantasy. His first book is Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion (University of California Press, 2004) sought to understand how the bodily experiences of missionaries conditioned their representations of Chinese religion. His second book is Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History (co-written with Fabio Rambelli of UCSB; Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2012) examines the destruction, damage, defacement, and redefinition of sacred objects in East Asia. His third book, Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem in China (Bloomsbury, 2015), dealt mostly with Buddhist debates over bowing, but also compared Buddhist and Christian objections to obeisance. His fourth and least “academic” book, The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki (McFarland, 2016) is a series of philosophical and artistic reflections on the major films of the great director Miyazaki. His current book project will be titled Religion, Fantasy and Translation: Reading Tolkien in Chinese, consisting of both a theoretical inquiry into the intersection of those three key terms, and an exploration of the very different Middle-earths that emerge from the multiple Chinese translations of The Lord of the Rings and others.
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