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Yale Divinity School
409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06515God, Confucius, and Human Rights
Recorded on Tuesday, Nov. 09, 2004 at 5:15 pm, EST Professor Obenchain is a scholar of comparative religion and culture. In this lecture she discusses current interest on the part of Chinese scholars and students in both religion and in the academic study of religion. To illustrate, she reflects on Chinese ways of understanding the Christian contribution to Confucian cultivation and the Confucian contribution to contemporary Christian moral life, especially as regards human rights. A widely published author and speaker on Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist and other religious traditions in China, she has taught the academic study of religion in China since 1988, primarily at Peking University, where she was visiting professor of religious studies from 1988 to 2002. In 2003 Professor Obenchain was a research fellow at Yale Divinity School. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative History of Religion from Harvard University . She is co-editor of Christ and the Dominions of Civilization, the third volume in a multi-volume collection of papers published by Trinity Press International entitled God and Globalization: Theological Ethics in a Pluralistic World. She has several books in progress, including the Small Dictionary for the Study of Religion, to be published in both Chinese and English under a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation, and a textbook to introduce the study of religion in China, forthcoming from Peking University Press.
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