CHRISTOPHER KEY CHAPPLE
(310) 338-2846; e-mail:
cchapple@lmu.edu; fax: 310-338-2706
Personal Data
Home Address:
Home Telephone: (310)
410-9721
Married, 1974; Two children
(Dylan, age 21 and Emma, age 17)
Employment History
Navin and Pratima Doshi
Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, 2007 to present
Associate Academic Vice
President, LMU Extension, January 2003 through December 2006
Oversight of Center for Religion and Spirituality,
Continuing Education, Study Abroad
Office, Center for Global Education,
Visiting Professor (Adjunct),
Professor of Theological
Studies, 1994 to present
Acting Chairperson, Theological
Studies, spring, 2002
Principal Investigator,
Visiting Professor (Adjunct),
Interim Associate Academic
Vice President, 1997-98
Director, Asian and Pacific
Studies, 1996 to 2002
Associate Professor of
Theology, 1989 to 1994
Chairperson, Department of
Theology, 1990 to 1994
Charles S. Casassa Chair of
Social Values, LMU, 1989-91
Director, Casassa
Conferences, LMU, 1990 and 1991
Co-founder and Acting
Director, Asian and Pacific Studies, LMU, 1989-90
Founder and Director,
Southern California Seminar on
Assistant Professor of
Theology, 1985-89, LMU
Lecturer, 1980-85,
Assistant Director, 1980-85,
The Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions
(IASWR), Stony
Field
Religions and Philosophies of
Education
Ph.D., 1980, History of
Religions,
Dissertation: "The Concept of Will in
the Yogavasistha"
M.A., 1978,
Thesis: "Tson Kha Pa and the
Synthesis of Buddhism in
B.A., 1976, summa cum laude, State University of New
York at Stony Brook,
Comparative Literature and Religious
Studies
Teaching Areas
Religions of India, Comparative Religious Ethics, Religion and Ecology, World Religions, Asian American Religions in Los Angeles, Religions of East Asia, Religions of the Near East, Buddhism, Comparative Mysticism, Sanskrit, American Cultures
Language Study
Sanskrit, Tibetan, French,
Spanish, German (reading only)
Honors and Awards
Communitas Award, Church in
Metanexus Institute Local
Societies Initiative, co-Principal Investigator, 2005-2008,
Teilhard Religion
and Science Society, LMU
FIPSE Grant, 2004-2007, Study Abroad Pre- and Post-Experience
Online Training;
Recruitment of Under-represented Minorities to Study
Abroad (Co-Recipient)
Pell Grant Fund for Children
of Needy Student Parents, 2002-2005 (Writing
Team)
Infinity Foundation Grant,
Summer, 1999
Lily Endowment,
Grant Development Grant, LMU,
1997
College Fellow, Spring 1995
National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Stipend, 1992
Chilton Chair Award, 1990
Charles S. Casassa Chair of
Social Values, 1989-91
National Endowment for the
Humanities, Summer Seminar on Buddhism and Culture:
Certificate of Appreciation,
1989 Margaret Demerest
Lecturer,
Summer Research Grant, LMU,
1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000
Research and Travel Award,
International Association Against Painful Experiments on
Animals (
Loyola Scholarship, Fordham
University, 1976-78
Graduate Assistantship,
Fordham University, 1976-77; 1978-79
Lehman Fellowship, State of
Gannett Scholarship, Medill
Publications
Books
Author. Yoga and the Luminous. With a Translation and Grammatical Analysis
of Patanjali’s
Yoga
Sutra.
Associate Editor. Encyclopedia
of Religion and Nature. Bron R. Taylor, Editor.
Continuum, 2005.
Author. Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra’s Collection
of Views on Yoga.
Editor. Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the
Web of Life.
Distributed
by
Hanna Tec, 2005. Indian edition.
Research Series, Vol. 22.
Co-Editor. Hinduism
and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water.
World
Religions,
Editor. Ecological
Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives.
Author. Nonviolence to Animals, Earth,
and Self in Asian Traditions.
Editor.
The Jesuit Tradition in Education
and Missions.
Co-translator. The
Yoga Sütras of Patañjali: An Analysis of the Sanskrit with Accompanying English Translation.
Author. Karma and Creativity.
Editor. Religious
Experience and Scientific Paradigms: Proceedings of the IASWR
Conference,
1982. Stony
Editor. The Bhagavad
Gïta. Winthrop Sargeant, translator.
Second Edition.
SUNY Press, 1984.
Editor. Samkhya-Yoga:
Proceedings of the IASWR Conference, 1981. Stony
Articles, Book Chapters and
Introductions
“Dying and Death: Jaina
Dharma Traditions.” In Dying, Death, and Afterlife in Dharma
Traditions and
Western Religions. Edited
by Adarsh Deepak and Rita DasGupta Sherma.
Contemporary
Issues in Constructive Dharma. Volume
4.
“Inherent Value without
Nostalgia: Animals and the Jaina Tradition.”
In A Communion of
Subjects: Animals
in Religion, Science, and Ethics. Edited
by Paul Waldau and
“The Jain Bhavan in
Research Journal
of Jain Studies. Vol. 34,
No. 2. October 2006. Pp. 18-24.
“Yoga and the Mahabharata:
Engaged Renouncers.” In Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Vol. 14,
No. 2. 2006. Pp. 103-114.
“Meditation in Indian
Philosophy. In Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Ed. Donald
Borchert. Vol 6.
2nd. Edition.
“Ecology and Jainism.” In Encyclopedia
of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 4.
2nd edition.
“Bioethics in Jainism.” In Encyclopedia
of Bioethics. Ed. Stephen
G.Post. Vol. 3. 3rd edition.
“Yoga and the Gita: Isvara-Pranidhana and Bhakti.”
In Journal of Vaishnava
Studies. Volume
14, No. 1. Fall,
2005. Pp. 29-42.
“Death Teaches Us About
Life.” In Jain Spirit, Issue 24, 2005, pp. 80-82.
“Buddha,” “Jainism,” and
“Yoga and Ecology.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
“Raja Yoga and the Guru:
Gurani Anjali of Yoga Anand Ashram,
Gurus in
“Karna in the Mahabharata: An
Ethical Reflection.” The Mahabharata: What is not here is
nowhere else
(yannehasti na tadvacit). Edited
by T.S. Rukmani.
Manoharlal.
2005. Pp. 131-144.
“The Tradition of Animal
Protection in Jaina Religion.” In Earth Ethics: Evolving Values for an
Earth Community.
Volume 12, Number 2. Fall 2004 (appeared 2005). Pp. 12-13.
“Gianismo e
Nonviolenza.” In La Nonviolenza nella
Religioni: Dai Testi Sacri Alle Tradizioni
Storiche. Edited by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher.
2004. Pp. 13-28.
“Religious Dissonance and
Reconciliation: The Haribhadra Story.”
In Ahimsa, Anekanta and
Jainism. Edited by Tara Sethia.
160.
“Purity and Diverstiy in the
Yoga Traditions of Patanjali and Haribhadra.”
In Jainism and Early
Buddhism:
Essays in Honor of Padmanabh S. Jaini. Edited
by Olle Qvarnstrom.
“Jainism.” Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, editor.
and
“Foreword.” Dharma in
Early Brahmanic, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions. Vincent Sekhar, S.J.
Religions”
in Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions, edited by
Joseph
Runzo, Nancy M. Martin, and Arvind Sharma.
“The Guru and Spiritual
Direction” in Tending the Holy: Spiritual Direction Across Traditions,
edited
by Norvene Vest.
“Yoga and the Luminous” in Yoga:
The Indian Tradition, edited by Ian Whicher and David
Carpenter.
“Contemporary Hindu and Jaina
Responses to the Ecological Crisis” in Worldviews, Religion,
and
the Environment: A Global Anthology. Edited by Richard C. Foltz.
Ecology
of the Spirit, 1990.
Reclaiming
a Functional Cosmology” in Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web
of
Life. Edited by
Christopher Key Chapple.
Study
of World Religions,
“Ahimsa in the Mahabharata:
A Story, A Philosophical Perspective, and an Admonishment” in
Holy
War: Violence and the Bhagavad Gita, edited by Steven J.
Rosen. Poquoson,
“Jainism and Ecology” in When Worlds Converge: What Science and
Religion Tell Us
about the Story of the Universe and Our Place In
It. Edited by Clifford N.
Matthews,
Mary
Evelyn Tucker, and Philip Hefner.
“”Religions of
Interaction. Edited by Joseph Bracken.
Interreligious
Dialogue, 2001. Pp. 71-83.
Daedalus: Journal of the
Fall
2001. Pp. 207-224.
“Four Recent Books on Yoga,”
review essay in Religious Studies Review. Volume 27, Number
3,
July 2001. Pp. 239-242.
“Arjuna’s Argument: Family
Secrets Unveiled.” Journal of Vaishnava Studies.
Volume X, No.
2,
Spring 2001.
“Pushing the Boundaries of
Personal Ethics: The Practice of Jaina Vows,” in Ethics in the World
Religions. Edited by Joseph Runzo and Nancy Martin.
197-218.
“Hinduism and Deep Ecology,”
in Deep Ecology and World Religions. Edited by David Landis
Barnhill
and Roger S. Gottlieb.
Pp.
59-76.
Animals,”
in Bioethics and the Use of Laboratory
Animals: Ethics in Theory and Practice. Edited by A. Lanny Kraus and David Renquist. A publication of the American
“Jainism and Buddhism,” A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. Edited by Dale
Jamieson.
“Introduction,” Hinduism and Ecology: Intersections of
Earth, Sky, and Water. Edited by
Christopher
Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker.
distributed
by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions,
Ecology,
pp. 549-567.
“The Body in South Asian
Religious Thought.” Moksha Journal. Vol. IX, No.
2, 2000.
Pp.
55-69.
“Sources for the Study of
Jaina Philosophy: A Bibliographic Essay.”
Philosophy East
and West. Volume 50, No. 3, 2000. Pp. 408-412.
“Life Force in Jainism and
Yoga.” In The Meaning of Life in the World Religions. Edited by
Joseph
Runzo and Nancy M. Martin.
“Reverence for All Life:
Animals in the Jain Tradition.” Jain Spirit. Issue 2, October-
December,
1999. Pp. 56-58.
“Centrality of the Real in
Haribhadra’s Yoga Texts.” In Approaches to Jaina Studies:
Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols. N.K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnstrom, editors.
“Religion, Economics, and
Ecology: A Hindu Response.” In Ethics and World Religions:
Cross-Cultural Case Studies. Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Christine Gudorf,
editors.
"Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga and the Sàìkhya System: A Case
of Vedàntic Inclusivism?"
in Moksha
Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1998 (appeared in 1999). Pp. 11-28.
"The
edited
by Martin Row.
"Yoga-Drishti-Samuccaya (Selection)," in The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, edited by Georg
Feuerstein.
1998. Pp. 204-206.
"Jainism and
Nonviolence" in Subverting Hatred:
The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions,
edited by Daniel Smith-Christopher.
"Thomas Berry, Buddhism,
and the New Cosmology." Buddhist Christian Studies. Vol. 18, 1998. Pp. 147-154.
"Hinduism, Jainism and
Ecology." Earth Ethics: Evolving Values for an Earth Community. Vol.
10, No. 1. Fall, 1998. Pp. 16-18.
"
"Haribhadra's Analysis
of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya,"
in Open Boundaries:
Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History, edited by John E. Cort,
"Toward an Indigenous
Indian Environmentalism," in Purifying
the Earthly Body of God: Religion
and Ecology in Hindu India, edited by Lance E. Nelson,
"Animals and Environment
in the Buddhist Birth Stories," in Buddhism
and Ecology: The Interconnection
of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and
of
World Religions, 1997.
"Renouncer Traditions of
"The Way of the Witness,
Part I, Part II" in Moksha Journal,
Online Edition, www.santosha.com/moksha/mj.htlml,
Winter 1996/97, Fall 1998, reprinted from Moksha Journal, 1987.
"Monist (Ekatva) and
Pluralist (Anekanta) Discourse in Indian Traditions," in East-West Encounters
in Philosophy and Religion, edited by Ninian Smart and B. Srinivasa Murthy
(Long
Beach: Long Beach Publications, 1996), pp. 120-129.
"Buddhism and Nature:
Meditation on Nature and Emptiness," Conference
Proceedings on Environmental
Destruction, Pollution, and Health Issues: A Global Challenge, edited by Skyne Uku-Wertimer, California State
University, Long Beach, 1996, pp. 235- 249.
"Ahiìsà in the Mahàbhàrata," Journal of Vaiéåava Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 109-125.
"Looking for Evidence of
Early Jainas: Archaeology, Folk Religion and Women" in Jinamanjari:
International Journal of Contemporary Jaina Reflections, Vol. 13,
No. 1, April 1996, pp. 1-5. Also served as Theme Guest Editor for this
issue.
"Living Liberation in
Sakhya and Yoga," in Living
Liberation in Hindu Thought, edited by Andrew
O. Fort and Patricia Y. Mumme.
1996. Pp. 115-134.
"Abhidharma as Paradigm
for Practice," in Pali Buddhism,
edited by Frank Hoffman and Deegalle
Mahinda.
"Jainism," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised
Edition, edited by Warren Thomas Reich.
"Kavis or Rishis: The
Legacy of Radhakrishnan and the Discipline of Hindu Studies," in New Essays in the Philosophy of Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan, edited by S.S. Rama Rao Pappu.
"Haribhadra,"
"Mahavira," "Patañjali," in Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of
"
Reprinted,
Plume (Penguin Books), 1996.
"Reading Patañjali
Without Vyàsa: A Critique of Four Yoga
Sutra Passages." In Journal of the
"The Academic Study of
Jainism in the West: A Survey of Recent Books." In Jinamanjari:
Contemporary Jaina Reflections. Vol. 9, No. 1, April 1994. Pp. 43-49.
"Two Traditional Indian
Models for Interreligious Dialogue: Monistic Accommodationism and Flexible
Fundamentalism." In Dialogue and
1993. Pp. 18-30.
Appeared February, 1994.
"Contemporary Jaina and
Hindu Responses to the Ecological Crisis."
In An Ecology of the Spirit: Religious Reflection and
Environmental Consciousness, edited by Michael Barnes.
"Hindu Environmentalism:
Traditional and Contemporary Resources."
In Worldviews and Ecology, edited by Mary Evelyn
Tucker and John A. Grim.
No. 2). Pp.
113-123. Second Edition: Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment.
123.
"Theology and the World
Religions." In The College Student's Introduction to Theology, edited
by
Thomas P. Rausch.
"Practice and
Dispassion: Patanjali on Meditation."
In Darshan (Nos. 77/78, August/September 1993). Pp. 78-83.
"Flexible
Fundamentalism: A Jaina Approach to Interreligious Dialogue." In The
Struggle Over the Past:
Fundamentalism in the Modern World, edited by William M. Shea.
"Nonviolence to Animals
in Buddhism and Jainism." In Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence,
edited by Kenneth Kraft.
"The Immediacy of God's
Presence in the Bhagavad Gita."
In Darshan (April, 1992, pp. 22-26).
"Nonresistant
Death." In Jinamanjari: Contemporary Jaina Reflections (Volume II, Number 2, 1991), pp. 51-62.
"Foreword." The
Bhagavad Gita. B. Srinivasa Murthy,
translator. Second Edition.
"Karma and the Path of
Purification." In Karma: Rhythmic Return to Harmony,
edited by V. Hanson, R.
Stewart, and S. Nicholson.
"Effort in the Mahabharata." In The
Self and Its Destiny in Hinduism,
edited by Purusottama
Bilimoria.
Karma and Creativity.
"Ecological Nonviolence
and the Hindu Tradition." In Perspectives
on Nonviolence, edited by V.K.
Kool.
"The Unseen Seer and the
Field: Consciousness in Samkhya and Yoga."
In The Problem of
Pure Consciousness:
Mysticism and Philosophy, edited by Robert K.C. Forman. New
"Foreword." Quest
for Certainty: A Comparative Study of Heidegger and Sankara. John A. Grimes.
"Action Oriented
Morality in Hinduism." Jeevdhara. Vol. XIX, No. 113 (1989), pp. 362- 376.
"Violence and
Nonviolence: A War to End All Wars?"
Moksha Journal. Vol. IV, No. 1 (1989),
pp.
22-30.
"The Way of the
Witness." Moksha Journal. Vol. III,
No. 1 (1987), pp. 15-31.
"Foreword." The
Bhagavad Gita. Winthrop Sargeant,
translator. Third Edition.
Press,
1987, pp. xiii-xxi.
"Noninjury to Animals:
Jaina and Buddhist Perspectives."
In Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in
Science. Tom Regan, editor.
"Yoga and Cross Cultural
Understanding." In Religions in Dialogue: East and West Meet. Z.
Thundy, K. Pathil, F. Podgorski, editors.
"Introduction and
Bibliography." The Concise Yogavasistha. Swami Venkatesananda, translator.
"Citta-vrtti and Reality in the
Yoga Sutra." In Samkhya-Yoga: Proceedings of the IASWR Conference, 1981. Stony
"The Paurusa Paradigm of
the Yogavasistha." The
Journal of Religious Studies. Vol.
IX (1981),
pp.
47-61.
"Negative Theology of
the Yogavasistha and the Lankavatara Sutra." Journal
of Dharma. Vol. V, No. 1 (1981), pp. 34-45.
Book Reviews
Piotr Balcerowicz, ed. Essays
in Jaina Philosophy and Religion. In
Religious Studies Review.
Volume
31, Nos. 1 & 2, January & April, 2005.
P. 117.
Arvind Sharma. Hinduism
and Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach.
In Journal of the
Paul Waldau. The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and
Christian Views of Animals. In
Buddhist-Christian
Studies, Vol. 24, 2004, pp. 293-295.
John E. Cort. Jains in the World: Religious Values and
Ideology in
Review,
Volume 28, No. 3, July 2002, p. 297.
Johannes Bronkhorst. Karma
and Teleology: A Problem and Its Solutions in Indian Philosophy.
In Religious Studies Review, Volume 27,
Number 4, October 2001, pp. 431-432.
Kerry S. Walters and Lisa
Portness, editors. Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter
Singer. In Worldviews,
Volume 5, pp. 96-97.
Yujraj Krishan. The
Doctrine of Karma: Its Origin and Development in Brahmanical, Buddhist,
and Jaina Traditions. In International Journal of Hindu Studies.
Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 326-327.
Judith Cooney. Sahaja
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