Department
Department of Religion
Email Address
rnadeau@trinity.edu

Professor Nadeau started full retirement in 2021.

Education

  • Ph.D. - University of British Columbia
  • M.A. - Princeton University
  • B.A. - Oberlin College

Selected Publications

  • “Ancient China,” in The History of Evil in Antiquity (2000 BCE – 450 CE), edited by Tom Angier (Routledge)
  • “Visualizing the Pure Land: Images and Imagination in Buddhist Practice,” in Heavens and Hells: The Cosmology of Pure Land Buddhism, San Antonio Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalogue (co-authored with Asian Art Curator Emily Sano and contributor Alison Miller)
  • Asian Religions: A Cultural Perspective (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (editor) (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
  • “Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Patterns of Religious Organization and the Question of ‘Taiwanese Identity’” (with Chang Hsün), Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society, edited by Philip Clart and Charles B. Jones (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press)

Subjects Taught

  • Chinese Religions
  • Japanese Religions
  • Being Young in Asia

Community Service & Involvement

Fulbright Association

Teaching and Expertise

  • Religions of China and Japan
  • History of Religion on Taiwan

Honors & Awards

Fulbright Senior Scholar (2014), Jennie Farris Railey King Professor of Religion, Trinity University (2012-2018)