Details

Einrichtung / Position

Luther College, Professor der Religionswissenschaft und Religionsphilosophie
Universität Island, Gastprofessor, Fakultät für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft
Tōyō Universität, Internationales Forschungszentrum für Philosophie (国際哲学研究センター), Gastforscher (客員研究員)

Artikel

Wallfahrten, buddhistisch

Haupt-Forschungsgebiete

Zen Buddhismus, Japanische Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie,

Wichtigste Veröffentlichungen

• Beyond Personal Identity (2001), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism [co-editor] (2009), Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy [editor] (2019). Journal of Buddhist Philosophy [editor].

Biographische Angaben

Gereon Kopf studied Catholic Theology for 3 years at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Franciscan School of Theology and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Temple University (1996). He is affiliated with Luther College, the University of Iceland, and Tōyō University. Sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, he visited Ōbirin University (1993-1994), Nanzan University (2002-2004), and Tōhoku University (2021). He taught at Hong Kong University (2008-2009) and at Saitama University (2013).