BRADLEY S - University of Montana



DR. BRADLEY S. CLOUGH

Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies

LA 101

The University of Montana

Missoula, MT 59812 USA

Office Phone: 406-243-2837

Bradley.clough@mso.umt.edu

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 2008-Present

Studies)

The University of Montana

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Abdulhadi H. Taher Chair in Comparative Religion, 2003-2008

The American University in Cairo

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 1990-91, 1993-94

Visiting Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College 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 2009

and Theravada Buddhist Soteriologies. Buddhist Traditions Series,

(New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publications) (forthcoming).

“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 2007

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

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“Communitas or Contestation?: Buddhist-Hindu Practices and 2007

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

Book Review of Greg Bailey and Ian Mabbett’s The Sociology of 2006

Early Buddhism, for History of Religions (Volume 46, Number 2,

November 2006).

Book Review of John Clifford Holt’s The Buddhist Visnu: Religious 2006

Transformation, Politics, and Culture, for the Journal of

Vaishnava Studies (Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2006)

Book Review of Rohan Bastin’s The Domain of Constant Excess: 2005

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka, in The

Australian Journal of Anthropology (Volume 16, Number 3, December

2005, pp. 401-403).

“Altruism in Contemporary Buddhism: Thich Nhat Hanh’s 2005

Socially Engaged Buddhism,” in Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner,eds.,

Altruism in the World’s Religions (Washington: Georgetown University

Press), pp. 115-138.

“Gandhi the Rama-bhakta,” Journal of Vaishnava 2004

Studies (Vol. 12, Number 2, Spring 2004, pp. 151-174).

Entries on the Buddhist figures Moggallana, Buddhaghosa, Bhikkhu 2004

Buddhadasa, and Mahasi Sayadaw for the Encyclopedia of Holy

Persons (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publications).

Book Review of Carol S. Anderson’s Pain and Its Ending: The Four 2004

Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon, for History of Religions

(Volume 42, Number 4, May 2003, pp.389-391).

“Gandhi, Non-violence, and the Bhagavad-Gita, In Steven J. Rosen, 2002

ed., Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad-Gita (Hampton, VA:

Deepak Heritage Books, 2002), pp. 59-80.

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“Family Life in Buddhism.” In Jacob Neusner. ed., Comparing 2001

Religious Traditions: Ethics of Family Life (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/

Thompson Learning, 2001)., pp. 124-158.

Book Review of H.L. Seneviratne’s The Work of Kings: The New 2001

Buddhism in Sri Lanka, for the Journal of Asian Studies (Volume 60,

Number 1, February 2001, pp. 279-282).

“For the Benefit of All: The Contemporary Reinterpretation and 2000

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.

Book Review of J.T.F. Jordens’ Gandhi’s Religion: A Homespun Shawl, 2000

for the Journal of Asian Studies (Volume 59, Number 1, November

2000, pp. 1070-1071).

Book Review of Vivek Pinto’s Gandhi’s Visions and Values: Moral Quest 2000

for Change in Indian Agriculture, for the Journal of Asian Studies (Volume

59, Number 1, February 2000, pp. 206-208).

Evil and Suffering in Buddhism,” in the Bard Journal of Social Sciences 2000

(Volume 7, Number 5, Spring 2000), pp. 4-16.

“The Historical King Ashoka/Priyadarshi,” in the Brooklyn Academy 2000

of Music’s Stagebill, for the drama, “Uttar-Pryadarshi” (October 2000,

p. 31 [longer five-page version available at ]).

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 1998

and Religion, edited by Serenity Young (New York: Macmillan Publishing,

1998).

Book Reviews of Sharon Salzberg’s Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary 1995

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).

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Book Review of Dudjom Rinpoche’s The Nyingma School of Tibetan 1992

Buddhism (translated by Matthew Kapstein) for the Southern Asian

Institute of Columbia University Bulletin, Spring 1995, pp. 8-9.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:

“Encounters Between Buddhism and Zoroastrianism in the Kushan 2009

Empire,”Central and Southwest Asian Studies Speaker Series, The

University of Montana

“Hinduism’s ‘Eternal Virtues’ and Contemporary Problems,” Center for 2009

Ethics Lecture Series, The University of Montana, April 20, 2009.

“Remembering Lives and Reading Minds: The Importance of Yogic Powers 2008

in Early Theravada Buddhism,” Annual American Academy of Religion

Conference, Chicago, Il.

“The Ambivalence of the Buddhists: The Role of Miracles in the Formation 2008

of Early Communities, According to South Asian Sources,” Annual American

Academy of Religion Conference, Chicago, Il.

“The Importance of the Abhijnas in Indian Buddhism,” XVth Congress of the 2008

International Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University

“The Rise of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism,” The American University in 2008

Cairo, Annual Research Conference

“Buddhist Ideologies of Extremism,” conference on “The Wrathful God: 2008

Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective,” Emory University

“The Erotic, Heroic and Peaceful: Aesthetic Theory and Its Application 2007

in the Poetics of Ashvaghosha’s Buddhacarita,” Dean’s Seminar, The

American University in Cairo

Host and Reader, “A Night of Sufi Poetry and Music,” 800th Anniversary 2007

of the Birth of Rumi Festival, The American University in Cairo

“Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War,” Core Seminar Lecture, 2006 and 2007

The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.

“Argument and Authority in South Asian Theravada Discourse on 2006

Meditation,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin

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Lectures on “Buddhism and Jainism” and “Modern Religions in South 2006

Asia,” Belief Study Group/Bridges Foundation, Cairo, Egypt.

Panelist, “History, Religion, and Gender Politics in The DaVinci Code” 2006

Dean’s Seminar, The American University in Cairo

“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 2006

Inter-religious Relations?”

Conference: “A Gathering of Hearts, Illuminating Minds,” San

Francisco, California.

“Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War and Other Short Stories,” 2006

Core Seminar Lecture, The American University in Cairo

“Teaching Comparative Religion in the Middle East: Reflections on 2005

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 2005

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” 2005

Institut Dominicain D’Etudes Orientales, Cairo, Egypt

“The Five Pillars of Islam and the Rise of Islamism” 2005

Community Services Association, Cairo, Egypt

“Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War and Other Short Stories,” Core 2004

Seminar Lecture, The American University in Cairo

Respondent, Panel on “Ethnographic Encounters with the Miraculous” 2004

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX

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“Altruism in Buddhism: Thich Nhat Hanh and Socially-Engaged 2004

Buddhism,” Conference on Altruism in the World’s Religions,

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

“Contemporary Religion in Egypt: Islam, Coptic Christianity, and 2004

Muslim-Copt Relations,” Community Services Association, Cairo,

Egypt

“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.” 2003 and 2004

Core Seminar Lecture, The American University in Cairo.

“Sources of Tolerance in the World’s Religions.” Cairo-American 2004

College”

“New Research Directions in African Religions,” African History Month 2004

Day, The American University in Cairo

“The Enterprise of Comparative Religion: Studying Religion in a 2003

Plural World.” Inaugural Lecture for the Abdulhadi H. Taher Chair

In Comparative Religion, The American University in Cairo.

“Buddhist Women in Sri Lankan Peace Movements.” The Annual 2003

Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“New Developments in Sri Lankan Buddhism.” Panel Organizer 2003

and Contributor, Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting.

“Debates on Meditation in Buddhist History.” Conference on 2002

Comparing Meditation Traditions, Institute for Advanced Theology,

Bard College.

“Buddhist-Confucian Encounters and Contributions to Chinese 2001

Culture.” Presentation with Bryan van Noorden of Vassar College,

For the “Bard in China” program

“Teaching the Contested Histories of Tibet.” Panel on Pedagogies 2000

in Teaching Asian Histories,” Asia Network Annual Conference.

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“For the Benefit of All: Contemporary Reinterpretation and Reintegration 1999

of Early Buddhist Principles of Social Economics,” Conference on

“Economic Behavior and Religious Belief,” Bard College.

“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 1997

Early Buddhist Meditational Theories and Practices,” Bard College

Faculty Seminar

“Finding a Place for Hinduism and Buddhism in Inter-Religious Dialogue: 1996

Towards a World History of Religion in the Singular,” Conference on

Inter-Religious Dialogue, Bard College.

“The Power of the ‘Buddha’s Voice’: Buddhaghosa’s Authority in 1996

Theravada Buddhism,” Columbia University Seminar on Buddhist Studies.

“New Research in South Asian Religions.” Panel Organizer and Presenter, 1995

American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Boston, MA.

“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 1994

entitled, “INDIA: AN INTERVIEW,” co-sponsored by the Institute for

Asian Studies and the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University,

New York, NY.

“Many Paths to Nirvana: Exploring Early Buddhist Soteriology,” Annual 1993

Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“Soteriological Controversy in Theravada Buddhism,” Association of 1993

Asian Studies regional Meeting, Hartford, CT.

“The Role of the ‘Higher Knowledges’ in Early Buddhism,” American 1992

Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Washington, DC.

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. 2003-2008

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 1992-present

American Institute of Sri Lanka Studies 1992-present

International Association of Buddhist Studies 1992-present

Association of Asian Studies 1993-present

Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College 1996-present

Pali Text Society 2002-present

International Association of Ladakh Studies 2009-present

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