1C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E Norman J. Girardot [as of January 2013]

Institutional AddressReligion Studies Dept.Maginnes Hall 9Lehigh UniversityBethlehem, PA USA 18015Cell : 484 515 8818; FAX (610) 758-3391; E-Mail njg0@lehigh.edu

Home Address54 E. Church ST.Bethlehem PA 18018

Educational Background__College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.) 61_65, BS cum laude__Dartmouth Medical School 65_66__University of Chicago, History of Religions, MA (68), Ph.D. (74)

dissertation director: Mircea Eliade & Anthony Yu__Language study and research, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC), 70_71

Employment–University Distinguished Professor, Lehigh University, 99– -- Acting Chair, Religion Studies Dept., 2005 --Full Professor, Religion Studies Dept., Lehigh University, 89----Chair and Professor, Religion Studies Dept., Lehigh University, 87-89__Chair and Associate Professor, Religion Studies Dept., Lehigh University, 80-87__Visiting Assistant Professor, Religion Dept., Oberlin College, 79_80__Assistant Professor, Theology Dept., Notre Dame University, 72_79__Editorial Assistant, History of Religions, 68_70--Personal Assistant/Secretary to Professor Mircea Eliade, University of Chicago 67-70

Honors and Awards-- primariy author and co-principal investigator of two Henry Luce Foundation Grants (total of 720k)--Deveronarts keynote speaker on “The Legacy of James Legge,” Huntly, Scotland 2009-- Lehigh University Chinese Bridge Project, $300,000 grant from the Luce Foundation, Principal Investigator, 2009-2011-- The “Mircea Eliade Centennial” Jubilee Medal, awarded by the President of Romanian, Traian Basescu, in Bucharest, Romania on September 21, 2006, “as a sign of appreciation for praiseworthy activity and remarkable contribution to the history of religions.”– Libsch Award for Outstanding Research, Lehigh University, 2004– Victorian Translation of China winner of the John King Fairbank Prize for outstanding book on China of the American Historical Association, 2004– Berz Lectureship at George Washington University, April 2003

– Victorian Translation of China Award for Excellence in Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion, 2003– fellowship in Arts Commentary: Critical Issues in the Arts, Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1/2001– resident fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Rabun Gap, GA. August 1999--National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Projects Division, Interpretive Research, 93-95 [2 year collaborative fellowship for a total of $250,000; extended to August 1996]--Chiang Ching-kuo Fellowship in Chinese Studies, 93-95--Pacific Cultural Foundation Writing Fellowship, 93-95--American Council of LearnedSocieties Fellowship, 93-94, declined--Consortium Professor, Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges, 87-88, 98__National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 82-83__Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 67-68__University of Chicago Fellow, 69-71--Nomination for Fulbright Research Grant, 79-80--declined__Phi Beta Kappa– many faculty research grants at Lehigh (most recent 99); Hewlitt grant 99, Ventures funding 2001

Professional Activities--international editorial board, Journal of Daoist Studies, 2007--- executive editor and International Board, International Journal of Humanistic Ideology, Studies into the Nature and Origin of Humanistic Ideas, 2008--- consultant for the Encyclopedia of Outsider Art, edited by Colin Rhodes, University of Chicago Press, 2008-- inaugural member of American Academy of Religion special national awards committee on art and religion 2006--- member of American academy of Religion national book award committee 2006—-- Lehigh chapter representative for the national triennial meeting of Phi Beta Kappa, Atlanta, 2006-- expert consultant for the creation of an outsider art center at North Carolina State University, 2006 -- – evaluator for Research Grants Council of the University Grants Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005– official expert evaluator for the Comparative Section, American Academy of Religion, 11/2000– expert evaluator for National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundations, multiple times; The British Academy; the Whiting Foundation; and the Rockefeller Foundation– president, Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, 1999– 2000–Principle Advisor for Asian Religions, Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of World Religions, Wendy Doniger, consulting ed. (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1999).– National Advisory Board, Forum on Religion and Ecology, 1998–

-- National Advisory Board, Folk Art Society of American 1989–

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-- member, American Society for the Study of Religion--International editorial board, Journal of Chinese Religions--executive committee, History of the Study of Religions Group, American

Academy of Religion 1997---invited member of departmental review/visiting committee: Allentown College, College of William & Mary, Western Maryland College --invited expert evaluator for tenure & promotion: York University/Canada, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, University of Missouri, College of William and Mary, Santa Clara University, University of Georgia, Rutgers University, Boston University, Trinity University, Queen’s College, Emory University, Duke University, etc.

-- expert evaluator of the Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion--chair, Nominations Committee, American Academy of Religion, 89-91__executive committee, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religions, 84-86--executive committee, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, 87-89__executive committee, Comparative Studies of Religion, 84-90__member, American Academy of Religion__member, Association for Asian Studies__member, Society for the Study of Chinese Religions--member, Columbia University Seminar on Traditional China--member, In'tuit, Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art--organizer of two national conferences ("Coincidentia Oppositorum: the Scholarly and Literary Worlds of Mircea Eliade"/University of Notre Dame; Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association of Asian Studies/Lehigh University)__book review board for East Asian Religion, Religious Studies Review 78-82__book review board for History of Religions, 85-87--China area co-editor, Harpers Dictionary of Religions__consultant: Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Encyclopedia of Religions, Oxford Companion to Religions, The Reader's Adviser, Harpers Dictionary of Religions, etc.-- expert evaluator for University of Chicago Press in outsider art and Asian religions, 2005, 2006__reader: University of Chicago Press, University of Notre Dame Press, Scholars Press, Macmillan, Greenwood Press, State University of New York Press, University of South Carolina Press, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, Three Pines Press, Tharcher Press, Wylie-Blackwell, University of California Press, etc.--ms. evaluation: History of Religions, Journal of the History of Ideas, Taoist Resources, Journal of Chinese Religions, Ritual Studies, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Politics, Material Religion, Religion, etc.__lectures/talks/symposia: American Academy of Religions (many times), Mid-Atlantic Relgion Association of Asian Studies, Notre Dame University, St. Mary's College, Chestnut Hill College, Yale University, Oberlin College, Guelph University/Canada, Holy Cross College, Columbia University, Moravian College, Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, Occidental College, Colby College, University of Chicago, College of William and Mary, George Washington University, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/Beijing (Institute for the Study of

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World Religions), Hong Kong Baptist University/Hong Kong, Newark Art Museum, University of Georgia, Lehigh University (two International Relations Colloquia), Lancaster University/England, Muhlenberg College, Aberdeen University/Scotland, Third International Elvis Presley Conference/Memphis TN, St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, American Museum of Folk Art/New York, Cambridge University/England, University of North Carolina/Charlotte, Georgia State University, University of Pittsburgh, Magdalene College/Oxford University, Boston University, Central Washington University, National Public Radio (Radio Times), North Carolina State University, Kutztown University, Nanjing University, Nanjing China; Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing China; Tongji University Shanghai China; MLA conference presentation LA 2011; Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, etc.

Professional Activities at Lehigh-- director summer 2012 Chinese Bridge cohort in China-- overseer of Chinese pavilion construction, Spring/Fall 2012-- organizer & chair, panel of Black Mountain College/South Mountain College, Oct 2012-- co-curator, African Visions of Barack Obama exhibition, main gallery, LUAG, Sept-Dec, 2012-- organizer & performer for Cage Style Happening November 6, 2012, LUAG-- poetic presentation on Ricardo Viera, 2012 -- featured speaker, Dialog Lehigh Learning with Purpose: Inquiry & Problem solving drive the undergraduate experience, Office of Research and Advancement Office Nov 11, 2011-- co-director of summer in China Lehigh Chinese Bridge Project Cohort (Shanghai & Beijing), 2011-- co-Principal Investigator, Henry Luce Foundation Grant, Chinese Bridge Project, 2010-12, 2012-2013-- planning and professor of record for special triple cross-listed course as part of the Chinese Bridge Project—Spring 2012 the Chinese Pavilion-- ongoing faculty advisor for The Lehigh Review-- director and faculty coordinator, ArtsLehigh, 2005-2008-- coordinating PI for the Chinese Bridge Project proposal 2007--- Cultural Entrepreneurship Panel, South Side Initiative Conference, Lehigh University 2008-- organizer of interdisciplinary colloquium “Bridging Disciplines: Beauty & Utility” 2006-- member of Creativity Task Force, College of Arts & Sciences, 2005– Mellon Global Citizenship Committee, 2003-04-- Advisory Board, Lehigh University Press, ongoing– Research Advisory Group, ongoing– chair, Dean’s Committee on Reconceptualizing/Revisioning the Arts at Lehigh Committee, 2001– Luce and Mellon Committees, 2001– Venture’s Fund for Course Development, Raw Vision 2002

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--departmental chair, 1980-1989--chair, General Studies Program, Engineering College 1983-1985--chair, Art Council, 1987-1990

-- member, Cosmos Club-- member, Williams Prize Committee-- member, Dean Search Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1989

--editorial board, Lehigh University Press, 1986----member, Faculty Fellows, Taylor College ongoing--member, College of Arts and Science Policy Committee, 1988-1991--member, College of Arts and Science Promotions Committee, 1988-90, 1996---co-convener (with L. Silberstein) of Faculty ‘Interpretation Seminar,’ mid-1980s--acting chair, East Asian Studies Committee, 1985-1987--member, Asian Studies Committee, 1992-

-- advisory committee, Jewish Studies Center, 1985-1989--acting director, College Scholars Program, 1990-1991

-- member, Faculty Committee, College Scholars Program, 1992---founding member, Faculty Editorial Board, Lehigh Review, 1992

-- member, managing editorial board, Lehigh Review, 1992---coorganizer of Eckardt Memorial Dinner, 1993--"Favorite Faculty Member" Lehigh University STAR Academy, 1995--experimental course development: “The Daoist Phantasmagoria”/1995, “Jesus/Buddha/Confucius and Elvis”/1996, “Deep Play: Doing Myth and Ritual at Lehigh”/1997: “Raw Vision: Creativity and Ecstasy in the Work of Shamans, Mystics, and Outsider Artists” Spring & Fall 2000

-- President, Lehigh Beta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1997-98-- Promotions Committee, Modern Foreign Languages Department, 1997-98-- Arts & Sciences College Promotions Committee, 1997-99

–organizer of Lehigh Millennium Arch site and establishment of Art Enclave on campus–organizer, curator of “Four Outsider Artists; The End is a New Beginning” Zoellner, LUAG, Nov 2000-Feb 2001May, 1998– Director of the Dissertation for Ma Xiaohong, “The First Taoist Pantheon: T’ao Hung-ching (456-536 CE) and His Chen-Ling-Wei-Yeh-T’u” Ph.D. Temple University, degree received -- 2005-2007 reader for the Ph.D. dissertation in history of mission studies of Jonathan Seitz, Princeton University-- 2004-5 reader for M.A. dissertation in American Studies, Lehigh University, for Matthew Burns– reader for six Lehigh University dissertations in English and Educational Psychology (“Martin Amis: Fiction, Form, and the Postmodern” by John Dern and “Psychological Aspects of Artistic Creativity” by Adam Cox); Jason Schwartz; 2003 PH.D. dissertation reader for Tom Bierowski in the English Dept; reader for Anne DeLong in the English Department 2006--

Publications/Productions/Performances 1. Books

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-- co-editor with Bryan Rennie, Remembering/Reimagining/Revalorizing Mircea Eliade (Bucharest: Romanian Association for the History of Religions, 2011) A Special Issue of Archaevs

-- [Chinese translation of The Victorian Translation of China. James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage] Chaojin dongfang: Liyage ping chuan 朝觐东方：理雅各评传, translated by Duan Huaiqing, Guanxi Normal University Press, 2011.

 -- [Chinese translation of Daoism & Ecology] Daojiao yu shengtai: yuzhou jingguan de neizai zhi dao 道教与生态 : 宇宙景观的内在之道. Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press, 2008.

-- [New Edition] Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism. The Theme of Chaos (Hundun). Magdalena NM: Three Pines Press, 2008

– author, The Victorian Translation of China. James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage. Berkeley & London: University of California Press, 2002

Winner of national awards from the American Academy of Religion and the American Historical Association

Many reviews including (not complete): Times Literary Supplement, Taipei Times, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Religious Studies Review, Journal of Religion, Taijiquan Journal, First Things, Daoist Studies, Journal of Religion and Society, Social Sciences Abroad, etc.Review essay in Social Sciences Abroad (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing) No. 1 (2006): 81-83Wang Hui, Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context. James Legge and His Two Versions of the Zhongyang Bern: Peter Lang, 2008.

– N. J. Girardot, James Miller, & Liu Xiaogan. Daoism and Ecology. Ways Within a Cosmic Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Press, 2001.

Many reviews including (not complete): Deane Curtin in Environmental Ethics 26 (2004): 105-106.Bruce Monserud in Worldviews 7 (2003): 355-361.

--special editor for China, The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, ed. Jonathan Z. Smith & William Scott Green (San Francisco, HarperSanfrancisco, 1995).

--co-translator, Isabelle Robinet, Taoist Meditation (Albany: SUNY, 1993).-- reviews:

Scott Lowe, China Review International 1 (1994): 214-218D.L. Overmyer, Studies in Religion 24 (1995): 123

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S. Whitfield, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3rd Ser. 4 (1994): 454-455.D. Lancashire, 192-194T. Peterson, Taoist Resources 5 (1994): 70-72F. Pregadio, Journal of Chinese Religions 23 (1995): 217-220Yuet Kung Lo , Journal of Oriental Studies 34 (1996): 103-105.

__author, Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983

-- paperback edition with new preface, University of California Press, 1989

-- designated as "best selling paperback" by University of California Press

-- reviews of Myth and Meaning:a. review essays

--Leon Thomas, Comptes rendus: Myth and Meaning. Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, CCIII(1986):300-305.--M. Levering, "Imagination and Myth: The Chuang Tzu and Myth." Religious Studies Review 10(1984): pp. 234-237.--R. Neville, "From Legumes a la Grecque to Bouillabaisse in early Taoism." Philosophy East and West 35(1985): pp. 431-443; and "Comments on Girardot's 'Response'," Philosophy East and West 36(1986):271-273.--J. Berthrong, Journal of Chinese Religions 12(1984): 95-104.--Eugene Eoyang, "Chaos Misread: Or, There's Wonton in My Soup!" Comparative Literature Studies 26 (1989): 271-284.--Anne M. Birrell, "Studies on Chinese Myth since 1970: An Appraisal" Parts I and II History of Religions 33 (1994): 380-393; 34 (1994): 70-94.--Hakim Bey, “The Way of Godzilla, An Anarchist Appraisal of N. J. Girardot’s Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hun-tun),” IOAM & SoHo Arts Weekly– S. Field, “In a Calabash,” Talus 9/10 (1997): 52-97.

b. reviews and notes--Wong Yuk, T'oung Pao 73(1987):324-325.--J. Berling, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54(1986): 173-174.--S. Field, Journal of Asian Studies 65(1986): 819-821.--R. Janelli, Journal of American Folklore 97(1984):475-476.--V. Mair, Pacific Affairs (1985):318-319.--Choice Mar. 1984.--S. Allan, Bulletin of the Schools of Oriental and African Studies 48(1985).--D. Harper, Parabola Winter, 1984.-- Theology Digest 31(1984).--Yes!Guides 1984.

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--C. Bell, "On Chinese Chaos," History of Religions 24(1985):280-281.-- J. O'Leary, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 25(1986):138-139.

--Christopher Justice, Nexus: The Canadian Journal of Anthropology 1/8 (1990)--L. Kohn, Asian Thought and Society 14 (May-Oct, 1989): 215-216

__coeditor, Imagination and Meaning: The Scholarly and Literary Worlds of Mircea Eliade, New York, Seabury-_Winston/Harper and Row Press, 1982

--reviews and notes:--M. Calinescu, Journal of Religion 65(1985):250-257--J. Cullum, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 51(1983): 718-719.-- Virginia Quarterly Review 58(1982): 116.--J. Buchanan, Religious Studies Review 9(1983): 22-24.-- Philosopher's Index 17(1982), no. 11.-- The Christian Century Feb. 1983.--H.B.P., The Living Church Oct. 10, 1982, p. 17.--R. Allen, The Clergy Journal 5-6(1983): 74.

__coeditor, China and Christianity, Notre Dame: Center for Social and Pastoral Ministry, 1979.

--reviews and notes:--O. Lattimore, The Heythrop Journal Dec. 1980, p. 109-110.--V. T. Johnson, Worldmission 1980.

2. Symposia/Catalogs/Exhibitions

--co-curator and catalog essay African Visions of Barack Obama, main gallery, LUAG, Sept-Dec. 2012

-- curator for Art/Life/Spirit: At Home with Mr. Imagination, exhibition and catalog, GoggleWorks, Reading PA, 2007

-- co-curator for Small Worlds: The Intimate Vision of Dale Gibbons, exhibition, GoggleWorks, Reading PA 2007

– co-curator and catalog essay author for Howard Finster (1916-2001): Revealing the Masterworks (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Art Galleries, 2004)

-- review “Howard Finster Retrospective Exhibition, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA, October 2004,” in Material Religion (March 2006), pp. 140-142

– co-curator and catalog essay author for “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Religious Folk Art in America” Savannah College of Art and Design, in cooperation with the Folk Art Society of America, October 2002

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--coeditor, Special symposium issue, The Mythic Imagination, double issue of History of Religions 16 (1977): 279-426

__coeditor, Special symposium issue on "Myth and Symbol in Chinese Tradition," Journal of Chinese Religions, Boulder: Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, 1985-86

__coeditor, "Current Perspectives in the Study of Chinese Religions" special double issue symposium of History of Religions 17(1978):207_434.

--co-curator of two folk art exhibitions at Lehigh University (The Finsters at Lehigh, 1986; Natural Scriptures, 1990)

--author, coeditor/co-curator, The Finsters at Lehigh. Catalog and monograph. Bethlehem: LUAG, l986.

--author and coeditor, Natural Scriptures: Visions of Nature and the Bible in the Work of Hugo Sperger, Mini and Garland Adkins, Jessie and Ronald Cooper, and Howard Finster. Catalog and monograph. Bethlehem: LUAG, 1990.

-- museum exhibition “James Legge and the Victorian Encounter with China,” Marishal Museum, Aberdeen University, Scotland

– curator and brochure writer, “Four Outsider Artists: The End is a New Beginning,” Zoellner LUAG, Nov 2000-Feb 2001

– catalog Four Outsider Artists: The End is a New Beginning, Bethlehem, PA: LUAG, 2001

3. Conferences & Quasi-Shamanistic Productions of Public Ritual Events

-- lectures at Nanjing University, Tongji University, Hangzhou Academy, and USTB China, 2011, 2012

-- “The Legacy of James Legge” keynote presentation for the Deveronarts Conference on the “Palace of Puzzles: The Legacy of Legge—China and the West” in Huntly, Scotland, 2009.

-- “A shorter Inquisition into the Art Seminar,” presentation as a parat of the Arts, Literature, & Religion section of the American Academy of Religions, Chicago 2008

-- presentation at the Nek Chan conference in Chandighar India 2007

-- featured presentation “My Eliade: The Utilitarian Splendor of the Strange, the Sacred, and the Sublime,” at the special symposium “Eliade and his Legacy” as a part of the joint meeting of the International Association for the History of Religions, the European

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Association of the History of Religions, and the Romanian Association for the History of Religions, Bucharest Romania, September 2006

-- featured presentation “Transformation Through the Arts” and workshop “Para-Shamanistic Performance Art Practices In and Out of the Classroom: A Myth and Ritual Approach to Higher Education” for the symposium Vibrant Spirits: Outsider, Folk, and Contemporary Artistic Visions, Nov 10, 2006, Kutztown University

-- installation artwork EAT ART, collaboration with Ricardo Viera, at Northampton Community College, September 2006

-- installation artwork SEEING WITH MR. I’S EYES, collaboration with James Difonzo, at GoggleWorks, Reading PA, 2006-2007

-- Pearlstein symposium participant and speaker, LUAG “Too Sexy for Words: The Daoist Body” 2006

-- featured symposium speaker at North Carolina State University “Alexander Bodardy’s Cosmological Art and Religion: A Hairy Approach with Images” 2005

– conference organizer and speaker, “The Measure and Meaning of a Master: Outsider Art & Howard Finster, November 5, 2004, Lehigh University

– The Lake Woebegone and Old South Mountain Review: The Bobb Carson Show, April, 2003

-- conference co-chair, “China: The Religious Dimension” Center for Continuing Education, University of Notre Dame, June 29-July2, 1977

--conference organizer and chair, “Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Scholarly and Literary Worlds of Mircea Eliade,” University of Notre Dame, April 13-15, 1978

--conference chair, “New Religious and Spiritual Movements,” University of Notre Dame, June 27-28, 1978

-- “Flash Card Fever” (in Chinese), Play for Indiana University Summer Chinese Program, Bloomington Indiana, c. 1969

-- Bullroaring Festival, University of Notre Dame, c. Spring 1976

-- Lehigh University Blessing of the Hounds c. Fall 1982

-- Lehigh University Cudgel of Concord Inauguration of New A&S College c. 1984

-- Revival of Alfred Packer legacy and creation of Lehigh Review Acrostic, 1992;

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-- Lehigh University Levitation of Rauch Business School and First Materialization of Elvis Presley Spring 1992

-- Lehigh University DaoDay as part of the Daoist Phantasmagoria and materialization of Lao Tzu from Cosmic Egg, Spring 1995

-- Lehigh University First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine Revival, April 1996

-- Lehigh University ZacDay, Official-Unofficial Celebration-Actualization of the Zoellner Arts Center, April 24, 1997

--”What Really Happened in Bethlehem” Lecture/Performance for the Third International Elvis Presley Conference, Memphis Museum Of Art, August 1997

– organizer of Lehigh Millennium Folk Arch and Art Enclave, May, 2000

– “Ecce Elvis: Shrines to the King,” shrine exhibition, November 2001, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA

4. Articles and Review Essays--"Part of the Way: Four Studies on Taoism," History of Religions 11(1972):319-337.

__"The Problem of Creation Mythology in the Study of Chinese Religion," History of Religions 15(1976): 289_318.

__"Initiation and Meaning in the Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Journal of American Folklore 90(1977):274_328.

review essay: S. Jones, Journal of American Folklore 92(1979):69-76.

--"Response to Jones: 'Scholarship is Never Just the Sum of All Its Parts,'" Journal of American Folklore 92(1979): 73-76.

--"Taoism," Encyclopedia of Bioethics, ed. W. Reich (New York: The Free Press, 1978), vol. 4, pp. 1631-1638.

review essay: L. Goodman, Philosophy East and West 31(1981): 225-238.

__"'Returning to the Beginning' and the Arts of Mr. Hun_tun in the Chuang Tzu," Journal of Chinese Philsophy 5(1978):85_91.

-- “Confucius and Religion,” The Review of Politics 26 (1974): 614-16.

--”Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 5 (1978): 85-91.

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__"Chaotic Order and Benevolent Disorder in the Chuang Tzu," Philosophy East and West 28(1978):299_321.

--"Introduction: Spiritual Roots of Chinese Tradition," in China and Christianity, 1979, pp. 2-7.

__"Chinese Religion and Western Scholarship," in China and Christianity, 1979, pp. 83_113.

--(coauthor) "Introduction," Current Perspectives in the Study of Chinese Religions, 1979, pp. 207-208.

__"Imagining Eliade: A Fondness for Squirrels," in Imagination and Meaning: The Scholarly and Literary Worlds of Mircea Eliade, 1982, pp. 1_16.

--"Preface," Imagination and Meaning: The Scholarly and Literary Worlds of Mircea Eliade, 1982, pp. ix-x.

__"'Let's Get Physical': The Way of Liturgical Taoism," History of Religions 23(1983):169_180.

__"Behaving Cosmogonically in Early Taoism," in R. Lovin and F. Reynolds, eds. Cosmogony and Ethical Order, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. 67_97. 

--"Female Initiation Rites," in P. Chittenden and M. Kiniry eds. Making Connections Across the Curriculum (New York: St. Martins Press, 1986), pp. 627-629.--"The Worlds Folk Art Church: Reverend Howard Finster and Family," in The Finsters at Lehigh 1986, pp. 7-30.

--"Just the Facts in Howard Finster's Mythic Life," in The Finsters at Lehigh 1986, pp. 31-35.

__"Introduction: Myth and Symbol in Chinese Tradition," in Myth and Symbol in Chinese Tradition, 1985-86, pp. 1-14.

__"Chinese Religion: History of the Study," Encyclopedia of Religions, Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 312-323.

__"Chinese Religion: Mythic Themes," Encyclopedia of Religions, Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Pp.

__"Chaos," Encyclopedia of Religions, Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 213-218.

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__"Marcel Granet," Encyclopedia of Religions, Vol. 6. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 94-95.

--"Hsien," Encyclopedia of Religions, Vol. 6. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 475-477.

--"Response to Neville: 'In the Night Kitchen,'" Philosophy East and West 36(1986):263-270.

--"Eastern Religion and Philosophy," in The Reader's Adviser, 13th ed., edited B. Chernow and G. Vallasi (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1988), Vol. 4, pp. 375-412.

--"Why Huai-nan Tzu?" Journal of Chinese Religion 16 (1988): 106-111

--Review essay of Howard Finster, Man of Visions by J.F. Turner, NY, 1989) Folk Art Messenger, 3 (Winter 1990): 8-9

--"Meditations on the 'Art with No Name'" in Natural Scriptures: Visions of Nature and the Bible. Bethlehem: LUAG, 1990.

--"Cave Man Bill Traylor," Folk Art Messenger 5 (Spring 1992): 6-7.

--"Kristofer Schipper and the Resurrection of the Taoist Body," pp. ix-xviii, in K. Schipper, The Taoist Body, trans. by Karen C. Duval (Berkely & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

--"Translators' Preface," pp. xi-xii in Isabelle Robinet, Taoist Meditation, The Mao Shan Tradition of Great Purity (Albany: SUNY, 1993).

--"Visualizing Taoism: Isabelle Robinet and the Mao-shan Revelations of Great Purity," pp. xvii-xxix in Isabelle Robinet, Taoist Meditation, The Mao Shan Tradition of Great Purity (Albany: SUNY, 1993).

--"'Very Small Books about Very Large Subjects': A Prefatory Appreciation of the Enduring Legacy of Laurence G. Thompson's Chinese Religion. An Introduction," Journal of Chinese Religions 20 (Fall 1992): 9-15.

-- "The Course of Sinological Discourse: James Legge and the Nineteenth Century Invention of Taoism" Proceedings of the 33rd International Congress of Asian and North African Studies 4 (1992):1-7.

--”Foreword” (with Harriet Parmet) to Collecting Myself, A Writer’s Retrospective by A. Roy Eckardt (Atlanta GA: Scholars Press, 1993), xvi-xviii

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--co-author/interviewer with Ricardo Viera, "Howard Finster" in "Art and Old Age" thematic issue of Art Journal 53 (Spring 1994): 48-50.

-- “Chang Chueh,” “Chang Hsiu,” “Chang Lu,” “Chi-chiu,” “Ching,” “Gingseng,” “Hu-lu,” “Hun-tun,” “Jade,” “K’un-lun,” “Miniature Garden,” “Nei-tan,” “P’an-ku,” “P’u,” “San-ch’ing,” “San-ch’ung,” “Shou-i,” “Sun Wu-kung,” “T’ai-hsi,” “Tao-yin,” “Wai-tan,” “Wang Che,” “Wu-tsang,” “Yang Hsi,” “Yang-hsing,” “Lei Feng,” “Tsou Yen,” “Ku poison,” “Ling,” “Tai Chen,” “Hsiung Shih-li,” “Term Question, Chinese,” “Moon Blocks,” “Ch’iu Ch’u-chi” HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, ed. Jonathan Z. Smith (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).

--"Legge, James, " Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, ed. by Donald Lewis (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995)

--But Seriously: Taking the Elvis Phenomenon Religiously,” ReligiousStudies News 11 (November 1996): 11-12.

-- “Howard Finster,” catalog essay for Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, ed. By Elsa Longhauser (New York: Chronicle Books, 1998).

--Review essay of Christopher Herbert, Culture and Anomie, Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1991) in Religion 28 (1998): 212-216.

-- “A. Roy Eckardt (1918-1998): Pioneer in the Academic Study of Religion and Christian-Jewish Studies” ReligiousStudies News (1998)

– [short articles on] “An yu, ko-wu, Kokutai, Korean religions, ling, Lu Hsun-ch’ing, Lung-men Taoism, munmyo, oracle bones, Pai-yun kuan, pao, pao-chuan, San-ch’ing, shan-shu, Shang-ch’ing Taoism, Ssu-man Ch’eng-chen, Tao-an, tso-wang, Tu Kuang-t’ing, Yamato, yang-hsing, yi-gi, Yi Saek, Yi Yulgok, ch’i-kung, Ch’u Tz’u, ching-tso, Chang Tojon, feng-shui, giri, Hanullim, himoragi, honji-suijoku, hsin-hsueh, hsuan, hun-tun” in Wendy Doniger, ed., Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of World Religions (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1999).

– “Ritual Combat During the Babylonian Era of Sinology,” The Oracle, The Journal of Yijing Studies (Feb. 1999) 2:8-24.

– “‘Finding the Way’: James Legge and the Victorian Invention of Taoism. Religion 29 (1999): 107-121.

– “Who is Worthy to Open the Book,” pp. 63-70 in Carol Crown, ed. Wonders to Behold. The Visionary Art of Myrtice West (Memphis, TN: Mustang Publishing, 1999)

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– review essay on Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religions. By Ingvild Saelid Gilhus. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. History of Religions 39 (2000): 372-376.

– “Ecce Elvis: ‘Elvis Studies’ as a Postmodernist Paradigm for the Academic Study of Religions,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68 (2000): 603-614.

– “Smiles and Whispers: Nostalgic Reflections on Mircea Eliade’s Significance for the Study of Religion,” pp. 143-164 in Bryan Rennie, ed., Changing Religious Worlds, The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade (Albany: SUNY, 2001)

– “Elvis Cults,” in Wade Clark Roof, ed., Contemporary American Religion (New York: Macmillan, 2000)

–“The Victorian Text of Chinese Religion: With Special Reference to the Protestant Paradigm of James Legge’s Religions of China,” Cahiers d’Extreme-Asie 12 (2001): 21-57

– co-author, “Introduction: The Named and the Nameless,” pp. xxxvi-lxiv, in Daoism and Ecology. Ways Within a Cosmic Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Press, 2001.

– “Envisioning Howard,” Folk Art Messenger 14 (Fall-Winter 2001-2002): 7

– “The Legacy of Howard Finster,” Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Nov. 1, 2002.

– CD ROM & Video: Four Outsider Artists. The End is a New Beginning.

– “Max Muller’s Sacred Books and the Nineteenth-Century Production of the Comparative Science of Religions,” History of Religions 41 (2002): 213-250.

– “James Legge and the Strange Saga of British Sinology and the Comparative Science of Religions in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Series 3, 12, 2 (2002): 155-165

– “The Dao of the Tao of the West: A Short Introduction to the Panel and Papers,” Religious Studies Review 28 (October 2002): 303-304

– Weak Knee Art,” in catalog brochure for The Best of Naemi, The Art of the Mentally Ill. Bethlehem PA: Banana Factory, 2003.

– “Friedrich Max Muller,” Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th edition (Tubingen: 2003)

– “Eyes To See,” in Juan Martin and Ricardo Viera, eds., NAEMI, National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill Miami FL: NAEMI, 2003, p. 1.

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– “Weak Knee Art,” in Juan Martin and Ricardo Viera, eds., NAEMI, National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill Miami FL: NAEMI, 2003, pp. 13-14.

– “Where There is No Vision the People Perish: Visionary Artists and Religious-Based Environments in the American South,” in Carol Crown, ed., Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004), pp. 89-102

– “Bad and Nasty Art: Quantity and Quality in the Career of Howard Finster,” in Howard Finster (1916-2001): Revealing the Masterworks (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Art Galleries, 2004), pp. 4-60.

– “Co-Curators: Conversations with Themselves,” in Howard Finster (1916-2001): Revealing the Masterworks (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Art Galleries, 2004), pp. 4-60.

– “James Legge,” for Colin Mathews, ed., the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 200) print & on-line editions

– Foreword in Russell Kirkland, Taoism. The Enduring Tradition (New York & London: Routledge, 2004), pp. vii-x

– “ArtsLehigh: The Art of Education,” Lehigh Alumni Bulletin 2004

– “Mr. Imagination Moves On,” Envision 9 (2004): 15

– DVD on Howard Finster: Revealing the Masterworks. LUAG 2005.

– “It Does Not Die: Personal Reflections on the End Time of Mircea Eliade” in Mihaela Gligor & Mac Linscott Ricketts, eds., Encounters with Mircea Eliade (Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cartii de Stiinta, 2005), pp. 60-88 (and photos: cover, p. 242)

– “Echos From Hollow Places. The Art of Echo Ray McCallister,” pp. 47-52 in Juan Martin, ed., Echo Ray McCallister The Silent Outsider (Miami: NAEMI, 2005)

– “Visual Culture and Relgion: Outsider Art,” pp. 9624 in Lindsay Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005)

– “Celestial Worlds in the Work of Self-Taught Visionary Artists With Special Reference to Howard Finster’s Vision of 1982,” pp. 73-86 in Nicholas Campion ed., The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Magdalen College, Oxford 3-9 August 2003, Special Double Issue of Culture and Cosmos (Bristol UK: Culture and Cosmos, 2005)

-- “Mr. Imagination,” Raw Vision 63 (Summer 2007): 18

-- “Howard Finster’s Shamanistic Christianity: The Vision of 1982,” Raw Vision 63 (Summer 2007): 28-35

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-- “My Way: Teaching the Daode Jing and Daoism at the End of the Millennium” in Gary d. DeAngelis & Warren G. Frisina, eds., Teaching the Daode Jing. New York & London: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 105-129.

-- "Internal Guidance Systems," Raw Vision 65 (2008-09): 57

-- “Dalai Lama: Service to Community.” Pp. 4-5 in His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Bethlehem: Lehigh University, 2008

-- Preface to the Three Pines Edition: The Myth of Myth and Meaning. N. J. Girardot. Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism. Three Pines Press, 2008

-- “An Inquisition into the Art Seminar,” in James Elkins & David Morgan, eds., The Art Seminar. Re-Enchantment. New York & London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 200-208.

-- “Voir rouge/Seeing Red,” in Celine Muzelle ed., Aloise: comme un papillon sur elle. Shiga: Harekumo, 2009. Pp. 153-183.

--“Deeper into the Woods: Paul Lancaster’s Visionary Universe,” in Grey Carter, ed. Paul Lancaster Immersed in Nature. Chicago: Pegboard Press, 2009. Pp. 20-29.

“Legge, James 1815-1897” Encyclopedia of Modern China, edited by David Pong. New York: Gale Cengage, 2009. Vol 2, pp. 451-452.

-- “The Word Made Flesh: Howard Finster as Preacher-Painter-Performance Artist.” in Glen Davies ed., Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster. Champaign-Urbana: Krannert Museum of Art, 2009: 103-118.

-- “My Eliade: Personal Reflections on the Splendor of the Strange, the Sacred, and the Sublime,” Archaevs XIV (2010): 11-26.

-- “The Legacy of James Legge (1815-1897): Pilgrim’s Progress & the Irony of Empathy” in Deng Dafei and He Hai, eds., Palace of Puzzles. Huntly: DeveronArts, 2011, pp. 107-119.

-- “By Way of a Foreword” in Deng Dafei and He Hai, eds., Palace of Puzzles. Huntly: DeveronArts, 2011, pp. 1-2.

-- “Introduction to the Special Thematic Issue on Remembering/Reimagining/Revalorizing Mircea Eliade,” in Archaevs XV (2011), pp. 7-14

-- “Howard Finster and the Bible” forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, Berlin)

-- seven articles forthcoming for the Encyclopedia of Outsider Art (University of Chicago Press)

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-- “At Home Then and Now with Mr. Imagination,” forthcoming for the International Journal of Self-Taught and Outsider Art (University of Sydney)

-- “Mr. Imagination” for Raw Vision, Summer 2012

-- “Remembering Mr. Imagination (1948-2012) My First and Last Encounters with a Metal Angel,” Folk Art Messenger, Summer 2012.

-- “African Visions of Barack Obama” Catalog essay for LUAG (Fall 2012).

5. Book Reviews and Notes

Many reviews and notes in History of Religions, Religious Studies Review, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, The Journal of Politics, Philosophy East and West, Parabola, Buddhist-Christian Studies, Journal of Chinese Religions, Folk Art Messenger, Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, etc.

ADDENDUM FOR 2010

1) Activities During 2010 (not including ongoing university committees, journal editorial boards, etc)

“Eat Art: The Ritual Meal,” an art installation/performance by the EatArt Collaborative (NJG & RV) for More Serious Business, Art of the Valley August 30-October 1 2010 Northampton Community College Bethlehem PA

Expert evaluator for book manuscript submitted to Brill Publishing (ms entitled China’s Creation and Origin Myths: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Local and Global)

development of new course in Spring of 2010 (Rel/Art 189 Religion and Visual Arts)

On Leave Fall Semester 2010—research and writing of book ms entitled Envisioning Howard Finster: The Myth and Meaning of a Stranger from Another World (contract with the University of California Press)

research at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; at the Thomas Scanlin Finster archive in Dahlonega GA; and in Summerville GA.

continuing Principal Investigator for the Henry Luce Foundation Grant for the Lehigh Chinese Bridge Project

proposal writing for a renewal of the Luce Foundation Grant

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member of the AAR awards panel on Religion and the Arts, Atlanta November 2010

research and preparation for special interdisciplinary seminar/studio course (ARCH/ASIA/REL 297 The Chinese Bridge Studio) for the Spring 2011

2) Publications

N. J. Girardot, “My Eliade: Personal Reflections on the Splendor of the Strange, the Sacred, and the Sublime,” Archaevs XIV (2010): 11-26.

ADDENDUM FOR 2011

1. I’m especially pleased and honored to note that this year my award winning book, The Chinese Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage (U of California Press, 2002; winner of the John King Fairbanks Award for Best Book on China from the American Historical Association and the Outstanding Historical Study of Religion of the American Academy of Religion) was published in Chinese translation. The translation details are: Chaojin dongfang: Liyage ping chuan 朝觐东方：理雅各评传, translated by Duan Huaiqing, Guanxi Normal University Press, 2011. This is the second of my books to be translated into Chinese. The first was a Chinese rendition of my co-edited work on Daoism and Ecology (Harvard UP, 2001): Daojiao yu shengtai: yuzhou jingguan de neizai zhi dao 道教与生态 : 宇宙景观的内在之道. Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press, 2008. In this same vein, my early work on the Daoist tradition (Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism, U of California Press, 1983, 1989) has gone into a third edition (Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism: the Theme of Chaos, Three Pines Press, 2008).

2. For the year 2011, several articles (“By Way of a Foreword” and “The Legacy of James Legge (1815-1897): Pilgrim’s Progress and the Irony of Empathy”) appeared in The Palace of Puzzles, ed. Deng Dafei & He Hai Henanwenda Publishing Company, 2011.

3. Also in 2011 I gave an invited presentation at the January 2011 MLA/Modern Language Associtaion convention in LA: “The Dao That Can be Dao’ed Is Not the Dao: James Legge’s Translation of the Daodejing” – special session on The Tao Te Ching and Its Translators. I have also been actively involved with the 2011 national meeting of the AAR/American Academy of Religion in Atlanta (as a member of the “Arts & Religion” award committee).

4. I am currently writing a book entitled Envisioning Howard Finster: The Myth and Meaning of a Stranger from Another World (under contract with the University of California Press) which will be the first full-length interpretive study of the famous/infamous Baptist preacher/outsider painter/apocalyptic visionary Howard Finster (1916-2001).

5. I co-edited a special issue of the journal Archaevs: études d’histoire des religions |studies in the history of religions (sponsored by the International Association for the History of Religions and the Romanian Association for the History of Religions) on the theme of “Remembering/Rethinking/Revalorizing Mircea Eliade.” This special issue has now (November 2011) appeared as an electronic journal, as a hard copy journal, and in book form.

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6. Various articles are currently in press with the Encyclopedia of Outsider Art (University of Chicago Press). These include:

-- “Howard Finster,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

--“Religion in Outsider Art,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

--“Shamanism,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

--“Arnett, William,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

--“Guyton, Tyree,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

--“Zagar, Isaiah,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

--“Mr. Imagination,” in Colin Rhodes, ed. The Encyclopedia of Outsider Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

7. Other articles are forthcoming for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter Berlin) and the International Journal of Self-Taught and Outsider Art (University of Sydney), and Archaevs (Romanian Association for the History of Religions).

8. I have just started work as a co-curator of a special exhibition for the Lehigh University Art Galleries of popular African art commemorating Barack Obama (set to open in October of 2012).

9. Spring and summer of 2011 saw the two year culmination of the Luce Foundation grant to support the interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inter-college Chinese Bridge Project. I am one of the directing PIs of the overall program (along with Connie Cook), but I would like to highlight three special accomplishments: a) first is the successful implementation of a cross-listed and team taught special studio/seminar course (ARCH/ASIA/REL 297 THE CHINESE BRIDGE PROJECT: DREAM AND REALITY, spring 2011 with Prof. Viscardi; the master carpenter, Marcus Brandt; and Dr. Wang Dongning) which resulted in the construction of a Chinese style bridge on the Lehigh campus; b) the execution of the first Lehigh Qing Ming/Clear and Bright Spring Festival to celebrate the Chinese bridge ; and c) serving as co-director of the summer 2011 student cohort of students in China (Shanghai, Qingyuan, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Beijing).

10. I was the faculty adviser for the production of the student produced booklet on the building of the Lehigh Chinese bridge (the head student editor was Andrew Maier). This is quite a beautiful publication and should be available in the CAS dean’s office.

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11. While in China this summer, I and Prof. Viscardi gave several lectures to faculty and students at Tongji University, Nanjing University, and the University of Science and Technology at Beijing on the history of the Lehigh Chinese Bridge Project. I also gave special lectures to the Center for Advanced Humanistic studies at Nanjing University (“The Legacy of James Legge: 19th and 21st Century Lessons for China and the West”) and at the University of Science and Technology at Beijing (“Daoism and Ecology: A Perspective from the Comparative Study of World Religions”).

12. I want to highlight the fact that I was heavily involved in the rewriting of a proposal to renew the Luce grant for another two years. We have been successful in that effort and we are currently engaged in extending the “bridging paradigm” to various partnership programs at Lehigh (especially the IDEAS program).

13. I should also note that I was the founder (1992) and ongoing adviser for the Lehigh Review which is now coordinated by a wonderful English graduate student, Katie Burton. Katie and her team of students has been producing some very impressive and professional issues that highlight not only student scholarly writing but also student art and graphic design (see the 2011 issue and those from the past few years).

14. I served as an expert evaluator and blurb writer for several international journals (Religion, Dao: Journal of Chinese Philosophy) and for various presses (University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Brill, Wiley-Blackwell)

ADDENDUM FOR 2012

All kinds of things already mentioned in the PAR report and since I’m retiring there doesn’t seem to be any need to be more explicit. Thank you very much. I am now about 85% finished with my Envisioning Howard Finster: The Myth and Meaning of a Stranger from Another World ms for the University of California Press. Most important is to note my involvement with the Chinese pavilion project. My next major project will be a feature-length documentary film on Mr. Imagination.

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