Stephen C. Berkwitz (Southwest Missouri State University)

Stephen P. Berkwitz
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Southwest Missouri State University
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804  USA

phone: 417-836-4147
fax:   417-836-4757
email: scv919f@smsu.edu
url:   http://www.smsu.edu/relst/faculty/Berkwitz/berkwitz.htm

Description of work:

Courses taught include undergraduate and Masters level courses in 
Buddhism, Method and Theory in Religious Studies, Religion and Cultural 
Studies, and World Religions.

Research interests in Pali and Sinhala Literature, Buddhist historiography,
Sri Lankan Buddhist Culture, Globalization and Buddhist Reform in Sri Lanka

Publications:
"Emotions and Ethics in Buddhist History: The Sinhala Thupavamsa and the 
Work of Virtue"
Religion 31, No. 2 J(April 2001): 155-173.
KEYWORDS: Buddhism, historiography, Buddhist ethics

"What the Buddhologists Taught: A Review Essay" JJMethod & Theory in the 
Study of Religion 13, No. 3
(Sept. 2001): 310-333.
KEYWORDS: Buddhist Studies, Methodology

"Terror and Violence through Buddhist Lenses" Bulletin of the Council of 
Societies for the Study of Religion 30, No. 4 (Nov. 2001): 75.
KEYWORDS: Teaching Buddhism