William E. Deal

Professor of Religious Studies

Office: (216) 368-2205
E-mail: william.deal@case.edu

Department of Religious Studies

Case Western Reserve University
11201 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7112

Books

• Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
• Theory for Religious Studies

Courses

• ASIA 110: Introduction to East Asian Culture and Society
  • Internet, Web provide new ways to study Asian culture

• USSY 205: Religious and Ethical Bodies

• RLGN 115: Ethics in Local Perspective
  • Class Acts: Outside the Comfort Zone

• RLGN 120: Comparative Ethics
  • From the 'net to TV

• RLGN 217: Buddhism

• RLGN 341: Religion and Postmodernism

Publications, Scholarship, and Research Available Online

• Conference Paper: Discourses of Religious Space
• Conference Paper: Simulating Pure Land Space: The Hyperreality of a Japanese Buddhist Paradise
• Journal Article: Journal Article: The Lotus Sutra and the Rhetoric of Legitimization in Eleventh-Century Japanese Buddhism
• Journal Article: Journal Article: Nichiren's Rissho ankoku ron and Canon Formation
• Book Review: Brian D. Ruppert, Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan
• Baker-Nord grants to help fund faculty collaborations in humanities

SAGES (Seminar Approach to General Education & Scholarship)

• USSY 205: Religious and Ethical Bodies

Other Activities

• Faculty Adviser for Alpha Phi Omega

Other Stuff I Care About

Critical Theory

Buddhism

Ethics

Teaching