Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of the World's Spiritual Traditions

Henry Rosemont received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington, and pursued postdoctoral studies in Linguistics (and politics) with Noam Chomsky at MIT. His areas of research and writing are Chinese philosophy & religion – especially early Confucianism – moral and political theory, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language. He has written A Chinese Mirror (1991), Rationality & Religious Experience (2001), and with Huston Smith, the forthcoming Is There a Universal ‘Grammar’ of Religion? (2007). He has edited and/or translated ten other books, including Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology(1984), Leibniz: Writings on China (with D.J. Cook, 1994), Chinese Texts & Philosophical Contexts, and with Roger T.Ames, The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (1998), and The Classic of Family Reverence (2008). From 1982-84, and again in 1993-94 he was Fulbright Senior Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics at Fudan University in Shanghai, where he is now Senior Consulting Professor, and concurrently Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University.