Graduate Theological Union

Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religions
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1987

PhD., Columbia University, 1976

Phone: 510/649-2455
E-mail: jberling@gtu.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Chinese Spiritualities
• World Religions and Theological Education
• Globalization
• Interdisciplinarity
• Gay/Lesbian/Queer Theory
• Interreligious Learning for Christians

Selected Publications

• "Confucianism and Peacebuiding," in Religion and Peacebuilding, ed. Harold Coward and Gordon S. Smith, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004).
• Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education (Orbis books, 2004).
• "Beyond 2000: The Global World and Theological Education," Pacifica: Journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity, 11, no. 2 (June 1998): 127-140.
• "Getting out of the Way: A Strategy for Engaging Students in Collaborative Learning," in Teaching Theology and Religion 1/1 (1998).
• "Taoism in Ming Culture," in The Cambridge History of China, Volume VIII: The Ming Dynasty, Part Two (Cambridge University Press, 1998): 953-986.
• A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture: Negotiating Religious Diversity (Orbis, 1997).