Heine, Steven
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Overview
overview
- I specialize in Japanese religions, especially Zen Buddhism and the thought of Dogen, founder of the Soto sect, in the medieval period (13th century). I also research a variety of topics in Japanese and East Asian culture and literature from classical through modern times in comparative perspectives. My teaching includes these topics, but also covers much broader themes such as worldwide mysticism, folk religions east and west, religion and psychology, and the impact of modernization on religious traditions. I am director of the Institute for Asian Studies and associate director of the new Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies at FIU, and I especially enjoy working with faculty and students dealing with issues of globalization and the impact of Asia on other regions, historically and in the contemporary world. Asian Studies has a new B.A. degree and many Religious Studies courses fulfill those requirements. In addition, I am the interim director of the newly designed Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. For spring and fall 2001, I had a research leave to work on a project funded by the National Endowment for Humanities on the role of Zen Buddhist koan literature in medieval China and Japan.
research interests
- Japanese Religions, Comparative Religious Thought, Religion and the Social Sciences
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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2021Just Sitting and Just Saying: The Hermeneutics of Dogen's Realization-Based View of Language. RELIGIONS. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/rel12020081 Web of Science: 000623140900001
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2019Zen Master Dogen: Philosopher and Poet of Impermanence. DAO COMPANION TO JAPANESE BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY. 8:381-405.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2924-9_15 Web of Science: 000488002100016
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2016DOGEN. BUDDHIST WORLD. 550-563.Web of Science: 000384432900035
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2015Ideal Time and Utopian Space in the Chan Pivot Experience. JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. 42:454-476.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1540-6253.12217 Web of Science: 000216467900003
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2014Does Even a Rat Have Buddha-Nature? Analyzing Key-Phrase (Huatou) Rhetoric for the Wu Gongan. JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. 41:250-267.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1540-6253.12120 Web of Science: 000367290600002
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2004Koans in the Dogen tradition: How and why Dogen does what he does with koans. PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST. 54.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2003.0052 Web of Science: 000187286400001
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2003Ch'an Buddhist Kung-ans as models for interpersonal behavior. JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. 30.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1540-6253.00135 Web of Science: 000186534700016
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1998Motion and emotion in medieval Japanese Buddhism - The link between motion and emotion. JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. 25.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6253.1998.tb00507.x Web of Science: 000075933800002
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Book
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2014
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2010
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Book Review
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2017Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki, Vol I: Zen. Ed. 67.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2017.0047 Web of Science: 000401973200020
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2017Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon. Ed. 65.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2017.1309139 Web of Science: 000424627000010
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2017Zen Dust: The History of the Koan and Koan Study in Rinzai (Lin-chi) Zen. Ed. 67.Web of Science: 000401973200021
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2016Entangling Vines: A Classic Collection of Zen Koans. Ed. 2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/jbp.2016.0015 Web of Science: 000409929200016
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2016Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia. Ed. 71.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/mni.2016.0011 Web of Science: 000383524800010
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2015Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought. Ed. 65.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2015.0082 Web of Science: 000369120700025
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2015Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions.. Ed. 4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00401007 Web of Science: 000356716300006
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2015Sword of Zen: Master Takuan and His Writings on Immovable Wisdom and the Sword Taie. Ed. 77.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/hisn.12062_40 Web of Science: 000355880900043
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2015The Chan Whip Anthology: A Companion to Zen Practice.. Ed. 65.Web of Science: 000369452300016
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2015The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Ed. 65.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2015.0052 Web of Science: 000354003900014
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2014Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. Ed. 64.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2014.0080 Web of Science: 000343781600022
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2013Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. Ed. 39.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/jjs.2013.0013 Web of Science: 000315239600009
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2013Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Ed. 63.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2013.0007 Web of Science: 000313844300007
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2012Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West. Ed. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2012.718262 Web of Science: 000311781400016
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2009Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen. Ed. 89.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/595925 Web of Science: 000261379000041
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2008Buddhisms and Deconstructions. Ed. 58.Web of Science: 000260651200013
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2007Japan in Asia: History thoughts and cultural criticism after 1945.. Ed. 33.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/jjs.2007.0015 Web of Science: 000244281800016
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2006Double exposure: Cutting across Buddhist and western discourses.. Ed. 56.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2006.0011 Web of Science: 000234926700024
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2005Japanese buddhism: A cultural history.. Ed. 55.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2004.0043 Web of Science: 000227105000008
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2004Beyond personal identity: Dogen, Nishida, and a phenomenology of no-self. Ed. 54.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2004.0029 Web of Science: 000224921500007
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2004The power of denial: Buddhism, purity, and gender. Ed. 31.Web of Science: 000223508800008
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2003Critical sermons of the Zen tradition: Hisamatsu's talks on Linji. Ed. 58.Web of Science: 000183386400015
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2003Letting go: The story of Zen Master Tosui. Ed. 58.Web of Science: 000183386400014
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2001The weaving of mantra: Kukai and the construction of esoteric Buddhist discourse.. Ed. 60.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2659732 Web of Science: 000169266100040
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2001Sourcebook for modern Japanese philosophy: Selected documents. Ed. 51.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2001.0023 Web of Science: 000168193300012
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2001Dogen and the paradoxes of being a Buddhist: Introduction, translation and comment with respect to Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye). Ed. 60.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2659547 Web of Science: 000168347000046
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2001Buddhism and ecology: The interconnection of dharma and deeds. Ed. 51.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2001.0008 Web of Science: 000167255900015
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2001Obaku Zen: The emergence of the third sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan.. Ed. 27.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3591975 Web of Science: 000170756900009
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1999An artless art: The Zen aesthetic of Shiga Naoya. Ed. 34.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/002190969903400209 Web of Science: 000081332800009
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1998Lack and transcendence: The problem of death and life in psychotherapy, existentialism, and Buddhism. Ed. 48.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1400026 Web of Science: 000076557600010
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1997Revolution and subjectivity in postwar Japan - Koschmann,JV. Ed. 52.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2385641 Web of Science: A1997XR02200011
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Editorial Material
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2007Sites and rites: sacred space in Asia. MATERIAL RELIGION. 283-286.Full Text via DOI: 10.2752/175183407X219804 Web of Science: 000248858900008
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Review
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2014Ishii Shudo's Contributions to Dogen Studies Examining Chinese Influences on the Kana and Kanbun Texts. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES. 387-404.Web of Science: 000347678900005
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2011Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front: On Deconstructing and Reconstructing Traditional Zen Narratives. RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW. 157-164.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01522.x Web of Science: 000295049400001
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2010Yes! We Have No Buddha-Nature Three Recent Publications on Zen Dialogues. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES. 367-376.Web of Science: 000284041400008
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2008A Day in the Life Two Recent Works on Dogen's Shobogenzo "Gyoji" [Sustained Practice] Fascicle. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES. 363-371.Web of Science: 000265734900006
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2008From Art of War to Attila the Hun: A critical survey of recent works on philosophy/spirituality and business leadership. PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST. 126-143.Web of Science: 000252534200008
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2007A critical survey of works on Zen since Yampolsky (Philip Yampolsky). PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST. 577-592.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/pew.2007.0047 Web of Science: 000250590500011
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Prostak, Michaela Leah, Monstrous Maternity: Folkloric Expressions of the Feminine in Images of the Ubume 2018
- Richko, Rebecca L, Social and Economic Factors Influencing Japanese Women's Decision about Childbearing in Post-Bubble Japan 2016
- Jamass, Maria M, Images and Perceptions of Muslims and Arabs in Korean Popular Culture and Society 2014
- Romeu, Maria Gabriela, The Japanese History Textbook Controversy Amid Post-War Sino-Japanese Relations 2013
- Avila, Sandra, Buddhism and its relation to women and prostitution in Thai society 2008
Research
principal investigator on
- Japan Foundation Grant - Institutional Support - YR 4 awarded by Japan Foundation 2016 - 2017
- Tokyo: High City and Low City awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2015 - 2016
- Japan Foundation Grant - Institutional Support awarded by Japan Foundation 2015 - 2016
- Japan Foundation Grant - Institutional Support awarded by Japan Foundation 2013 - 2015
- Staff Expansion awarded by Japan Foundation 2009 - 2011
- Staff Expansion. awarded by Japan Foundation 2008 - 2009
Contact
full name
- Steven Heine
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