Asie du Sud

États-Unis d'Amérique

Assistant Professor

Youngstown State University

mkjerryson@ysu.edu

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555 USA

330-941-3275

http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/religiousstudies/faculty/jerryson.php

Thailand, Mongolia, India

He earned his B.A in Western Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After volunteering for the Peace Corps in Mongolia, Jerryson returned to the University of Wisconsin, Madison and acquired his M.A in Languages and Cultures of Asia with a focus on the socio-political history of Mongolian Buddhism. He furthered his interest in religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning a Ph.D. in Religious Studies with a Global Studies emphasis.

Michael Jerryson looks at the intersections between identity and violence and the ways in which we associate religious identities with peace and violence.

Teaching include courses on Hindu traditions, Buddhist traditions, Religion and Violence, Psychology of Religion, Religion and Race, History of Yoga and Yogis, and Sanskrit

In addition to several articles on Southeast Asian religious traditions, he is author of:

- Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Sangha (2007),
- Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand (2011)
- (co-editor of) Buddhist Warfare (2009)
- (co-editor of)The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (2013).
- (editor of) The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism (forthcoming)

Buddhist warfare ; Buddhist fury ; Mongolian Buddhism ; Hindu traditions ; Yoga ; Yogis ; Sanskrit