人类学前沿讲座第四讲通知
主持人（Chaired by)：赵旭东 教授
主讲人（Key Speaker）：魏乐博 教授
（Robert Paul Weller , Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University）
讲题（Topic）：现代中国社会的休闲与礼仪
（Leisure and Ritual in Modern Chineses Societies）
时间（Time）：四月十九日(星期六) 下午七点到九点（7:00pm-9:00pm，April 19）
地点：中国人民大学 科研楼A座 212会议室
Venue: Room 212, Building of Keyan, A-Wing, Renmin Univesity of China
联系人：马子媚；电话：13426037825 邮箱：mzm2013@ruc.edu.cn
Contact: Ma Zimei , Tel: 13426037825, Email: mzm2013@ruc.edu.cn
魏乐博教授简历及最近五年核心出版物
罗伯特•威乐（中文名：魏乐博），波士顿大学人类学教授，波士顿大学文华宗教和国际事务研究所研究员，著名中国宗教问题研究专家，南京大学福布莱特访问教授。著有《反思多元主义：礼仪，经验和歧义》（合著，2012），《发现中的自然：海峡两岸的全球化与环境文化》（2006）和《礼仪及其推理：真诚限度论》（2008）。目前关注华人社区中宗教在创造公共社会利益中的角色研究。
CURRICULUM VITAE (Abbreviated)
Robert Paul Weller March 2014
Address:
CURA, Boston University
10 Lenox Street
Brookline, Massachusetts 02446
(617) 353-6714; fax (617) 353-6408; e-mail rpweller@bu.edu
Employment:
1990- Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University (Associate Professor, 1990-2000; Chair, 2006- ), and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
1986-90 Assistant Dean for Study Abroad and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke University
1980-86 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke University
Academic Interests:
Religion and ritual; economic culture; nature and environment; civil association and political change; kinship; peasantries and rural unrest; China and Taiwan
Courses Taught:
Elements of Cultural Anthropology; Language, Culture, and Society; China: Tradition and Transition; Socialism and Society in China; Culture and Environment; Anthropological Approaches to Religion; Symbol, Myth and Ritual; Peasantry and Peasant Movements; Culture and Ideology; Graduate Seminar in Anthropological Theory
Education:
1975-81 The Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology, Ph.D.
(1976-77 Stanford University, Program in East Asian Studies, on leave from Johns Hopkins.)
1974-75 Yale University, Anthropology, transferred.
1970-74 Yale University, Anthropology, B.A.
Honors and Awards (last 5 years only):
2013-14 Guggenheim Fellowship
2013-14 Fulbright Award
2013- Co-chair, 海外文化研究专业委员会学术委员会 [Academic Committee of the Overseas Cultural Studies Committee, China]
2012- Honorary member, Expert Advisory Board, Research Center on Philanthropy and the Public Good, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
2010 Michaelsen Endowed Visiting Scholar for 2010-11, University of California, Santa Barbara
2010- Center Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
Publications--Books and Edited Works:
2012 Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity. With Adam Seligman. New York: Oxford University Press.
2008 Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. With Adam Seligman, Michael Puett, and Bennett Simon. New York: Oxford University Press. (Italian translation, 2011, Rito e modernità: I limiti della sincerità, Armando Editore. Russian translation of ch. 1 as "Да здравствует ритуал!" in Historical Psychology and Sociology of History, 2009(2):171-183).
2006 Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. Cambridge University Press.
2005 Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia: Organizing Between Family and State. Editor. Routledge (paperback edition, 2007).
1999 Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy. Westview. Paperback edition, 2001.
1996 Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Editor, with Meir Shahar. University of Hawai'i Press.
1994 Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen. Macmillan Press and University of Washington Press.
1987 Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Macmillan Press and University of Washington Press.
1987 Symposium on Hegemony and Chinese Folk Ideologies. Editor, with Hill Gates. Special issues of Modern China, 13, nos. 1 and 3.
1982 Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Editor, with Scott E. Guggenheim. Duke University Press. Paperback edition, 1989.
Publications--Articles and Chapters (last 5 years only):
i.p. “The Politics of Increasing Religious Diversity in China.” Daedalus 143 (2), Spring 2014, pp. 1-10.
i.p. “Pluralism and Chinese Religions: Constructing Social Worlds through Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor” (with Adam Seligman). Review of Religion and Chinese Society 1:29-47.
i.p. "Taiwan and Global Religious Trends." Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies.
i.p. "华人的宗教性慈善与社会资本的限制 [Chinese Religious Philanthropy and the Limits on Social Capital]." 宗教人类学[Anthropology of Religion].
2014 “Beyond Globalization and Secularization: Changing Religion and Philanthropy in Lukang, Taiwan.” In Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein, and Christian Meyer, eds., Globalization and the Religious Field in China, 1800-Present. Leiden: Brill.
2013 "Chinese Communist Thought on Religious Diversity." In Joachim Gentz and Perry Schmitt-Leukel, eds., Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought. Palgrave-Macmillan.
2013 "The Religious Dynamics of Region and Nation Across the Strait." In Wen-hsin Yeh (ed.), Mobile Horizons: Dynamics Across the Taiwan Strait. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, pp. 124-146.
2013 "中国的多重全球化与自然概念的多样性 [Multiple Globalizations and Diversities of Nature in China]." In 苏发祥 [Su Faxiang] and 郁丹 [Dan Smyer Yu] (eds.), 中国宗教多元与生态可续性发展研究 [Religious Diversity and Ecological Sustainability in China], Beijing: 学苑出版社 [Academy Press], pp. 3-20.
2012 "Responsive Authoritarianism and Blind-Eye Governance in China." In Dorothy J. Solinger and Nina Bandelj (eds.), Socialism Challenged, Socialism Vanquished: China and Eastern Europe, 1989-2009, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 83-99.
2012 "The Dynamics of Religious Philanthropy in Lukang." 宗教人类学[Anthropology of Religion], 3:246-264.
2012 "Religion, Ritual, and the Public Good in China." In Fenggang Yang and Joseph Tamney (eds.), Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond, Boston: E. J. Brill, pp. 329-349.
2011 "Religion and Environment." In David Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri (eds.), Religion in Chinese Society: Communities, Practices and Public Works. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 124-138.
2010 "The Possibilities and Limitations of Spiritual Capital in Chinese Societies." In Peter L. Berger and Gordon Redding (eds.), The Hidden Form of Capital: Spiritual Influences in Societal Progress. London: Anthem Press.
2010 "Religion: The Dynamics of Religious Growth and Change" (co-authored with Yanfei Sun). In Joseph Fewsmith (ed.), China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 29-50.
2010 "中国的宗教仪式和公益 (Chinese Ritual and the Public Good)". In Shining Gao and Fenggang Yang (eds.), 从书斋到田野：宗教社会科学高峰论坛文集（上）From the Armchair to the Field: Selected Articles from the Beijing Summit on Chinese Spirituality and Society, vol. 1. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, pp. 170-183.
Publications—Short Works (last 5 years only)
2013 Governing Religion with One Eye Closed.” Blog entry on the Immanent Frame, Social Science Research Council (http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2013/10/17/governing-religion-with-one-eye-closed/).
2013 "对话宗教与世俗化 [Dialogue on Religion and Secularization]." Dialogue with Wu Yungui, Fan Lizhu, and Zheng Xiaoyun, 世界宗教文化 [Religious Cultures of the World], 2013 no. 2.
2011 "Chinese Approaches to Ethnic Diversity." Review essay on T. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation, and P. Potter, Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery." Cross-Currents E-Journal, no. 1 (http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/inaugural-issue). Reprinted in print version, Cross-Currents 1(1):259-266, May 2012.
2011 "对话宗教与社会资本 [A Conversation on Religion and Social Capital]." Dialogue with Fan Lizhu, Richard Madsen, Chen Na, and Zheng Xiaoyun, 世界宗教文化 [Religious Cultures of the World], no. 71:35-40.
2011 "对话宗教与慈善公益 [A Conversation on Religion and Philanthropy]." Dialogue with Zhang Shijiang, Liu Peifeng, and Zheng Xiaoyun, 世界宗教文化 [Religious Cultures of the World], no. 68:12-15.
2010 "制度性宗教vs.分散性宗教 [Institutional Religion vs. Diffuse Religion]." Dialogue with Fan Lizhu, Chen Na, Richard Madsen, and Zheng Xiaoyun, 世界宗教文化 [Religious Cultures of the World], no. 65:40-46.
2010 "点评：对于宗教人类学的讨论 [On the Anthropology of Religion]." Afterword to five articles on "Overseas Perspectives" in 宗教人类学 [Anthropology of Religion] 2:101-110.
2010 "序：宗教是一个有用的跨文化概念吗？[Forward: Is Religion a Useful Cross-Cultural Category?], in 李向平 [Xiangping Li], 信仰但不认同 [Believing Without Identifying], Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, pp. 1-3.
Professional Service--Committees, Consulting, Meeting Organization (last 3 years only):
2013 Consultant giving expert testimony, San Francisco Office of the District Attorney, New York County Office of the District Attorney.
2012 Co-Organizer, Berkeley Summer Research Institute, "Bordering China: Sustainability and Modernity," University of California, Berkeley.
2012 Member, Committee on China Grants, American Council of Learned Societies.
2011- Member, Board of Advisors, Harvard-Yenching Institute.
2010- Member, Advisory Board, Institute of Anthropology, Shandong University.
2010- Member, National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Senior Panel.
2010- Member, Editorial Board, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review.
2010 External Evaluator, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.
2010 Organizer and lecturer, CURA Summer Institute on Religion and Modernity in a Globalizing World, Fudan University, Shanghai.
2010 Organizer, Preliminary Workshop on the Religious Ecology of the Lower Yangzi Region, Fudan University, Shanghai.
2005- Advisory Committee, Project to Advance the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China, Purdue University
2005- Board of Advisors, Taiwan Journal of Anthropology
2003- Co-Director, Seminar on Chinese Religions, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
University Service (Selected):
2007-13 Chair, Anthropology
2011-12 Search Committee, Director, Pardee Center
2006-7 Acting Chair, Anthropology
2002-03 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
2002-03 Committee to Reevaluate the Social Sciences, Core Curriculum
1999-00 Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
1998-99 Boston University CAS Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure
1997-07 Boston University Institutional Review Board for Research on Human Subjects
1996-97 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston University.
1993-96 Boston University Committee on Social Science Curriculum
1990- Boston University Committee on East Asian Studies