PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2008  Lecture, “The History and Philosophy of the Chinese New Year Festival,” Asian Festival of the Institute of Texan Cultures

           Lecture, “Daoism,” Asian Studies in the High School Curriculum (Trinity University Seminar on Teaching about Asia for San Antonio Area Secondary School Teachers), sponsored by the Freeman Foundation

 2007  Lecture, “Confucianism and Human Rights,” Trinity University International Studies Colloquium on Human Rights

           Lecture, “Laozi, the Daodejing, and the Western Reception of Daoism,” Asian Studies in the High School Curriculum (Trinity University Seminar on Teaching about Asia for San Antonio Area Secondary School Teachers), sponsored by the Freeman Foundation 

           Lecture, “Religion and Everyday Life in China,” Asian Studies in the High School Curriculum (Trinity University Seminar on Teaching about Asia for San Antonio Area Secondary School Teachers), sponsored by the Freeman Foundation

2006  Lecture, “Family and Cosmos in Chinese Religions,” Asian Studies in the High School Curriculum (Trinity University Seminar on Teaching about Asia for San Antonio Area Secondary School Teachers), sponsored by the Freeman Foundation, in association with the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia and Columbia University

2005  Lecture, “Yin-Yang Souls and Spirits,” Asian Studies in the High School Curriculum (Trinity University Seminar on Teaching about Asia for San Antonio Area Secondary School Teachers), sponsored by the Freeman Foundation, in association with the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia and Columbia University

2004  Member, Board of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions

Pre-publication review:  Mary Fisher, Living Religions

Pre-publication review:  Yang and Hochsmann, Zhuangzi

2003  Co-chair, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

          Member, Board of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions

          Pre-publication review:  Hawkins, Readings on Asian Religions

2002  Co-chair, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

          Pre-revision review, McGraw-Hill:  Fieser and Powers, Scriptures of the East

          Eight-week course on “Asian Religions”:  North East Independent School District

2001  Co-chair, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

          Lecture, “What is a Person?  Christian and Confucian Understandings of the Self,” Gemini Ink Lunchtime Lecture Series, San Antonio

          Lectures on “Hinduism” and “Buddhism,” Alamo Heights Junior School

2000  Board member, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

           Six-week course on “Buddhism”:   OASIS, a senior citizens’ organization

           Referee, Journal of Chinese Religions:  “Opening the Wilderness to the Way of Heaven:  A Chinese New Religion”

1999  Board member, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

          Lecture, “Domestic Rites for the Dead in Japan:  A Buddhist Shrine at the San Antonio Museum of Art”

1998  Board member, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

1997  Past-President, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region

          Board member, Chinese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion

          Lecture, “What is the Tao?” (for Ewing Chinn, Dept. of Philosophy)

1996  President, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region

1995  Pre-publication review, State University of New York Press:  Sarah Allan, The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue

          Respondent:  "Feminist Study and Appropriation of Religions," for Feminism Seeking Diversity Conference, Associated Colleges of the South, San Antonio

          President-Elect, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region

          Self-study Committee, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region

          Referee, Buddhist-Christian Studies:  "Emptiness as a Paradigm for Understanding World Religions"

          Referee, Journal of Chinese Religions:  "A Poetic Exposition on Heaven and Earth (Tian-di fu) by Chenggong Sui"

1994   Vice President, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region

           Lecture, "Religious Observances of the Chinese Spring Festival," San Antonio Museum of Art

           Pre-publication review, Wadsworth Publishing Company:  Laurence Thompson, Chinese Religions:  An Introduction (The Religious Life of Man Series)

1993  Section Chair, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region:  Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

          Referee, Philosophy East and West:  "Scriptures and Commentaries:  The Case of Ching and Chuan in Han China"

          Tenure Review Committee, for Robert Campany, Department of Religion, Indiana University

          Lecture, "Buddhism in Japan," TI-IN Network, San Antonio, TX

          Lecture, "Asian Cosmologies and Nature" (for Jim Stoker, Dept. of Art)

          Lecture, "Chinese Views of Death" (for Mackenzie Brown, Dept. of Religion) 

1992  Lecture, "Images of Dualism and Complementarity in Chinese Religions," Chapter AL of the Philanthropic and Education Organization, San Antonio

          Lecture, "Land of the Kami:  The Boundaries of Sacred Space in Japanese Shinto," TI-IN Network, San Antonio, TX

          Section Chair, American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region:  Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Lecture, "Chinese Responses to Matteo Ricci" (for John Martin, Dept. of History)

Lecture, "Chinese Conceptions of Souls and Death" (for Mackenzie Brown, Dept. of Religion)

1991  General Program Chair, 20th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

           Panel Organizer, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion (Kansas City, MO.), Society for the Study of Chinese Religions; Panel Title:  "Religious Uses of the Text:  The Emergence, Production, and Distribution of Written Materials in China"

           Referee, Journal of Chinese Religions:  "Taoist Ritual in Taiwan"