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DR. BRADLEY S. CLOUGH
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies
LA 101
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812 USA
Office Phone: 406-243-2837
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Courses Include:
Religions of the World: A Comparative Introduction
to Dimensions of Human Spirituality
Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
Introduction to the Religions of Asia
Buddhist Thought and Practice
Hearts of Wisdom: Great Works of Indian Buddhist
Philosophy
Hindu Religious Traditions
Religions of India: Hinduism and Buddhism
History of India
Between Hindu and Muslim in South Asia
The Life and Works of Gandhi
Buddhism in East Asia
Tibetan Civilization
Japanese Religions
Approaches to the Study of Zen Buddhism
Contemporary Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia
Sacred Biography and Autobiography in the World’s
Religions
The Experiential Dimensions of Religion
Meditative Traditions of Asia
Prayer and Contemplation in the World’s
Religions
Pilgrimage in the World’s Religions
Wisdom Books and Culture
Between Hindu and Muslim in India and Pakistan
Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Sanskrit
A variety of “core curriculum” courses
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies ((Religious Studies, Asian
Present
Studies)
The University of Montana
2008-
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Abdulhadi H. Taher Chair in Comparative Religion,
The American University in Cairo
2003-2008
Assistant Professor, Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College
1999-2003
Adjunct Professor, Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College
1994-1998
Lecturer, Columbia University and Barnard College
Visiting Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College
1990-91, 1993-94
Fall 1990
EDUCATION:
September 1987-May 1998
Columbia University
Graduate Program in Religious Studies (Buddhist Studies specialization)
Degrees: Master of Arts (1989), Master of Philosophy with honors (1992)
Doctor of Philosophy (1998)
Dissertation: Noble Persons’ Paths: A Study of Early Indian
and Theravada Buddhist Soteriologies (advisor; Dr. Alex Wayman)
September 1978-May 1982
St. Lawrence University
Degree: Bachelor of Arts cum laude
Major: Eastern Religious Studies (with honors)
EXPERIENCE ABROAD:
Nepal: Manuscript Research on Ashvaghosha’s Buddhacarita
Summer 2006
(AUC Travel Research Grant)
India: Manuscript Research on Ashvaghosha’s Buddhacarita
Fall 2005
(AUC Pre-Tenure Research Award)
Sri Lanka: Research on Buddhist Ethics (Freeman Foundation)
Summer 2002
Long-Term Research Grant)
Sri Lanka: Research on Buddhist Ethics (Freeman Foundation
Winter 2002
Short-Term Grant)
Sri Lanka: Archive Research and Translation Work (Bard College Summer 2001
Research Committee Grant)
Sri Lanka: Research on the Meditation Revival in Sri Lanka
Winter 2000
(ACLS/Center for Contemplative Mind in Society)
India: Program Director for the New York State Independent
Fall 1997
College Consortium for Study in India
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Sri Lanka: Dissertation Research in the Colombo and Kandy Winter/Spring 1993
Areas (Columbia University Research and Travel
Dissertation Grant)
India: Instructor and Advisor for the Antioch College Program in
Fall 1992
Buddhist Studies (Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, and Dharamsala)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
AUC Travel Research Grant
2006
AUC Pre-Tenure Research Award
2005
Freeman Foundation Long-Term and Short-Term Research Grants
2002
Bard College Research Committee Grant
2001
American Council of Learned Societies, Research and Course
1999-2000
Development Grant (Contemplative Practices Fellowship Grant)
Research and Travel Dissertation Grant, Columbia University
1992-93
Teaching Fellow, Columbia University
1990-91, 1993-94
Presidents Fellow, Columbia University
1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90
PUBLICATIONS:
Noble Persons’ Paths: Diversity and Controversy in Early Indian
and Theravada Buddhist Soteriologies. Buddhist Traditions Series,
(New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publications) (forthcoming).
2009
“Ideologies and Practices of Buddhist Extremism,” Vincent J. Cornell
2009
and Kurt Anders Richardson,eds., The Wrathful God: Religious Extremism
in Comparative Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers)
(forthcoming)
“Buddhist Intolerance: The Case of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism,”
2008
Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, eds., Tolerance and Intolerance
In the World’s Religions (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation
Press).
“Introduction” to issue “Philosophical, Literary, and Historical
Perspectives on Sacred Space,” forthcoming in the Cairo Papers in
the Social Sciences series, American University in Cairo Press
*co-editor of this volume with Dr. David Blanks
2007
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“Communitas or Contestation?: Buddhist-Hindu Practices and
Interactions at ‘The Holiest Place in Sri Lanka’,” Cairo Papers in the
Social Sciences issue on “Philosophical, Literary, and Historical
Perspectives on Sacred Space” (forthcoming).*
*co-editor of this volume with Dr. David Blanks
2007
Book Review of Greg Bailey and Ian Mabbett’s The Sociology of
Early Buddhism, for History of Religions (Volume 46, Number 2,
November 2006).
2006
Book Review of John Clifford Holt’s The Buddhist Visnu: Religious
Transformation, Politics, and Culture, for the Journal of
Vaishnava Studies (Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2006)
2006
Book Review of Rohan Bastin’s The Domain of Constant Excess:
Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka, in The
Australian Journal of Anthropology (Volume 16, Number 3, December
2005, pp. 401-403).
2005
“Altruism in Contemporary Buddhism: Thich Nhat Hanh’s
Socially Engaged Buddhism,” in Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner,eds.,
Altruism in the World’s Religions (Washington: Georgetown University
Press), pp. 115-138.
2005
“Gandhi the Rama-bhakta,” Journal of Vaishnava
Studies (Vol. 12, Number 2, Spring 2004, pp. 151-174).
2004
Entries on the Buddhist figures Moggallana, Buddhaghosa, Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa, and Mahasi Sayadaw for the Encyclopedia of Holy
Persons (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publications).
2004
Book Review of Carol S. Anderson’s Pain and Its Ending: The Four
Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon, for History of Religions
(Volume 42, Number 4, May 2003, pp.389-391).
2004
“Gandhi, Non-violence, and the Bhagavad-Gita, In Steven J. Rosen,
ed., Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad-Gita (Hampton, VA:
Deepak Heritage Books, 2002), pp. 59-80.
2002
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“Family Life in Buddhism.” In Jacob Neusner. ed., Comparing
Religious Traditions: Ethics of Family Life (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/
Thompson Learning, 2001)., pp. 124-158.
2001
Book Review of H.L. Seneviratne’s The Work of Kings: The New
Buddhism in Sri Lanka, for the Journal of Asian Studies (Volume 60,
Number 1, February 2001, pp. 279-282).
2001
“For the Benefit of All: The Contemporary Reinterpretation and
Reintegration of Early Buddhist Principles of Social Economics.” In Bruce
D. Chilton and Jacob Neusner, eds., Religion and Economics: New
Perspectives (Binghampton: Global Publications, State University of New
York at Binghampton, 2000), pp. 69-86.
2000
Book Review of J.T.F. Jordens’ Gandhi’s Religion: A Homespun Shawl,
for the Journal of Asian Studies (Volume 59, Number 1, November
2000, pp. 1070-1071).
2000
Book Review of Vivek Pinto’s Gandhi’s Visions and Values: Moral Quest
for Change in Indian Agriculture, for the Journal of Asian Studies (Volume
59, Number 1, February 2000, pp. 206-208).
2000
Evil and Suffering in Buddhism,” in the Bard Journal of Social Sciences
(Volume 7, Number 5, Spring 2000), pp. 4-16.
2000
“The Historical King Ashoka/Priyadarshi,” in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music’s Stagebill, for the drama, “Uttar-Pryadarshi” (October 2000,
p. 31 [longer five-page version available at www.asiasociety.org]).
2000
Chapters On “God” and “Sacred Texts and Authority” in Buddhism
1997-98
for the Pilgrim Library of World Religions series, Volumes I and II,
edited by Jacob Neusner (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1997 and 1998).
Volume I, God, pp. 56-84, and Volume II, Sacred Texts and Authority,
pp. 60-89. “Literary Sources of Buddhism,” pp. xxiii-xxviii in both volumes.
Entries on “Disciples” and “Salvation” for the Encyclopedia of Women
and Religion, edited by Serenity Young (New York: Macmillan Publishing,
1998).
1998
Book Reviews of Sharon Salzberg’s Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary
Art of Happiness and Charles Tart’s Living the Mindful Life for the Journal
of Religion and Health Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 1995, pp. 90-94).
1995
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Book Review of Dudjom Rinpoche’s The Nyingma School of Tibetan
Buddhism (translated by Matthew Kapstein) for the Southern Asian
Institute of Columbia University Bulletin, Spring 1995, pp. 8-9.
1992
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
“Encounters Between Buddhism and Zoroastrianism in the Kushan
Empire,”Central and Southwest Asian Studies Speaker Series, The
University of Montana
2009
“Hinduism’s ‘Eternal Virtues’ and Contemporary Problems,” Center for
Ethics Lecture Series, The University of Montana, April 20, 2009.
2009
“Remembering Lives and Reading Minds: The Importance of Yogic Powers
in Early Theravada Buddhism,” Annual American Academy of Religion
Conference, Chicago, Il.
2008
“The Ambivalence of the Buddhists: The Role of Miracles in the Formation
of Early Communities, According to South Asian Sources,” Annual American
Academy of Religion Conference, Chicago, Il.
2008
“The Importance of the Abhijnas in Indian Buddhism,” XVth Congress of the
International Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University
2008
“The Rise of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism,” The American University in
Cairo, Annual Research Conference
2008
“Buddhist Ideologies of Extremism,” conference on “The Wrathful God:
Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective,” Emory University
2008
“The Erotic, Heroic and Peaceful: Aesthetic Theory and Its Application
in the Poetics of Ashvaghosha’s Buddhacarita,” Dean’s Seminar, The
American University in Cairo
2007
Host and Reader, “A Night of Sufi Poetry and Music,” 800th Anniversary
of the Birth of Rumi Festival, The American University in Cairo
2007
“Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War,” Core Seminar Lecture,
The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
2006 and 2007
“Argument and Authority in South Asian Theravada Discourse on
Meditation,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin
2006
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Lectures on “Buddhism and Jainism” and “Modern Religions in South
Asia,” Belief Study Group/Bridges Foundation, Cairo, Egypt.
2006
Panelist, “History, Religion, and Gender Politics in The DaVinci Code”
Dean’s Seminar, The American University in Cairo
2006
“A Buddhist Leader Helping to Rectify Popular Misperceptions of
2006
Islam in the West?: A Report on a Meeting between the Dalai Lama
And North American Muslim Leaders,”
The AUC Forum in the Study of Religion, The American University in Cairo
“How Can Historians of Religion Rectify Popular Misperceptions of
Inter-religious Relations?”
Conference: “A Gathering of Hearts, Illuminating Minds,” San
Francisco, California.
2006
“Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War and Other Short Stories,”
Core Seminar Lecture, The American University in Cairo
2006
“Teaching Comparative Religion in the Middle East: Reflections on
Experiences, Challenges, Failures, and Successes” (talks delivered
on September 13, 2005 and October 1, 2005, at Penn State
University and Bard College, respectively)
Communitas or Contestation?: Buddhist-Hindu Practices and
Interactions at "The Holiest Place in Sri Lanka”
Conference: “From Cairo to Calcutta: Philosophical, Literary and
Historical Perspectives on Sacred Space,” The American University in
Cairo.*
*co-organizer of this conference (with Dr. David Blanks)
“Les Varietes de L’Hindouisme”
Institut Dominicain D’Etudes Orientales, Cairo, Egypt
2005
2005
2005
“The Five Pillars of Islam and the Rise of Islamism”
Community Services Association, Cairo, Egypt
2005
“Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War and Other Short Stories,” Core
Seminar Lecture, The American University in Cairo
2004
Respondent, Panel on “Ethnographic Encounters with the Miraculous”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX
2004
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“Altruism in Buddhism: Thich Nhat Hanh and Socially-Engaged
Buddhism,” Conference on Altruism in the World’s Religions,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2004
“Contemporary Religion in Egypt: Islam, Coptic Christianity, and
Muslim-Copt Relations,” Community Services Association, Cairo,
Egypt
2004
“Gender, Identity, and Conflict: Unification in the Women’s Peace
2004
Movements in Sri Lanka.” Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies,
The American University in Cairo.
“Hinduism and the Tradition of the Aghori Holy Men.”
Core Seminar Lecture, The American University in Cairo.
2003 and 2004
“Sources of Tolerance in the World’s Religions.” Cairo-American
College”
2004
“New Research Directions in African Religions,” African History Month
Day, The American University in Cairo
2004
“The Enterprise of Comparative Religion: Studying Religion in a
Plural World.” Inaugural Lecture for the Abdulhadi H. Taher Chair
In Comparative Religion, The American University in Cairo.
2003
“Buddhist Women in Sri Lankan Peace Movements.” The Annual
Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2003
“New Developments in Sri Lankan Buddhism.” Panel Organizer
and Contributor, Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting.
2003
“Debates on Meditation in Buddhist History.” Conference on
Comparing Meditation Traditions, Institute for Advanced Theology,
Bard College.
2002
“Buddhist-Confucian Encounters and Contributions to Chinese
Culture.” Presentation with Bryan van Noorden of Vassar College,
For the “Bard in China” program
2001
“Teaching the Contested Histories of Tibet.” Panel on Pedagogies
in Teaching Asian Histories,” Asia Network Annual Conference.
2000
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“For the Benefit of All: Contemporary Reinterpretation and Reintegration
of Early Buddhist Principles of Social Economics,” Conference on
“Economic Behavior and Religious Belief,” Bard College.
1999
“What Becomes a Bhikkhu Most?: Vocational Diversity in the Sri Lankan
1998
Buddhist Sangha,” American Academy of Religion Annual National Meeting.
“Removing ‘Teleological Fallacies’: Towards a New Understanding of
Early Buddhist Meditational Theories and Practices,” Bard College
Faculty Seminar
1997
“Finding a Place for Hinduism and Buddhism in Inter-Religious Dialogue:
Towards a World History of Religion in the Singular,” Conference on
Inter-Religious Dialogue, Bard College.
1996
“The Power of the ‘Buddha’s Voice’: Buddhaghosa’s Authority in
Theravada Buddhism,” Columbia University Seminar on Buddhist Studies.
1996
“New Research in South Asian Religions.” Panel Organizer and Presenter,
American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Boston, MA.
1995
“Conflicts Between Learning and Practice in the History of Theravada
1994
Buddhism,” American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, New York, NY.
“Buddhism in India: Basic Concepts and Forms.” Part of lecture series
entitled, “INDIA: AN INTERVIEW,” co-sponsored by the Institute for
Asian Studies and the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University,
New York, NY.
1994
“Many Paths to Nirvana: Exploring Early Buddhist Soteriology,” Annual
Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1993
“Soteriological Controversy in Theravada Buddhism,” Association of
Asian Studies regional Meeting, Hartford, CT.
1993
“The Role of the ‘Higher Knowledges’ in Early Buddhism,” American
Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Washington, DC.
1992
LANGUAGES ABILITIES:
Reading Fluency (advanced): Sanskrit, Pali, classical Tibetan, French and German
Spoken Fluency: Hindi (intermediate), Sinhala (intermediate).
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COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY/PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION SERVICE:
Search Committee for Associate Vice-President for Student Affairs,
2009
The University of Montana
Sub-Committee on Ethics and Human Values in the Curriculum,
2008-present
The University of Montana
Acting Chair, History Department, AUC
2008
Research Proposal Review Board, Chair (AUC)
2007-2008
Advisory Committee, American Studies program, AUC
2005-2008
Board of Directors, American Institute of Sri Lanka Studies
2003-2007
Coptic Studies Chair Committee, AUC.
20032008
Director, AUC Forum in the Study of Religion, AUC
2003-2008
Steering Committee, Comparative Religion Group, American
2003-present
Academy of Religion
Board Member, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College
1998-present
Committee on Revision of the Core Curriculum, Bard College
2002-2003
Co-Director, Core Seminar Program, Bard College
1998-2002
Committee on Research and Travel, Bard College
1998-2002
(Chair, 2000-2002)
Board Chairperson, New York Independent College Consortium
1998-1999
for Study in India (board member 1994-2003)
Committee on Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Bard College
1995-1997
Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Asian Thought and Religion
1995-1997
Student Representative, Committee on Asia and the Middle East,
1990-1994
Columbia University
Rapporteur, Columbia University Seminar on Asian Thought and
1988-1994
Religion
Graduate Student Representative (Humanities), Columbia University 1988-1990
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Academy of Religion
American Institute of Sri Lanka Studies
International Association of Buddhist Studies
Association of Asian Studies
Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College
Pali Text Society
International Association of Ladakh Studies
1992-present
1992-present
1992-present
1993-present
1996-present
2002-present
2009-present