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Eric Reinders Associate Professor Office: S202 Callaway Memorial Center Mailing address: Department of Religion Emory University Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA 537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214 Atlanta, Georgia 30322  404-727-6186 (Office) 404-727-7597 (Fax) ereinde@emory.edu (Email)

Eric Reinders, Associate Professor (1998). Eric Reinders received his B.A. and
M.Phil. from the University of Hull, in Yorkshire, England. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1997. He specializes
in Chinese religion, particularly Buddhist monasticism, the relations of
monastic and state institutions, and missionary cultures. The primary
theoretical theme of his work is the discourses and practices of the body. He
has published on monastic discipline and on Western perceptions of Chinese
religion. His first book is Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian
Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion (University of California Press, 2004).
He is currently finishing Spirits Over the Ashes (a book on iconoclasm in East
Asia co-written with Fabio Rambelli of Sapporo University), and working on a
book comparing the Buddhist and Christian arguments against certain kinds of
obeisance in China.