Religious Studies: Mark Woodward

Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Arrived at ASU: 1985

Office: ECA 337
Phone: (480) 965-2530 or 965-7145
E-mail: mataram@imap1.asu.edu
CV: (available on request)

Research Interests

Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and indigenous religions in Southeast Asia, Religion and Culture, Modernity and Politics, Ritual, Sacred Geography, and the Anthropology of Religion.

Biography

(Ph.D., University of Illinois) Dr. Woodward is associate professor of religions in Southeast Asia. He has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University and Bowdoin College, and in 2007 was Visiting Proessor of Religious Studies at the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has received grants from Fulbright–Hays, the Social Science Research Council, the US Department of State, and from the Indonesian Ministry of Religion. He has conducted extensive ethnographic and historical research in Indonesia, Burma and Singapore.

Courses Taught

REL 100 - Religions of the World
REL 201 - Religion and the Modern World
REL 305 - Ritual, Symbol, Myth
REL 310 - Western Religious Tradtions
REL 502 - Methods and Issues in the Study of Religion
REL 591 - Seminar on Religion and Modernity

Selected Publications

Books
Religions of the World 10th edition Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006 (with Lewis Hopfe)

Theology of Terror (ed.), Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall 2004

Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions (ed.) Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall 2004

Jalan Baru Islam Memetakan Paradigm Mutakhir Islam Indonesia (ed.) Jakarta: Mizan 1998 (translation of Towards a New Paradigm)

Defenders of Reason in Islam:Mutazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol. (With Richard C. Martin and Dwi S. Atmaja) Oxford: One World, 1997.

Towards a New Paradigm: Intellectual Developments in Indonesian Islam. (ed) Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series. 1996

Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. Association for Asian Studies Monograph Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Articles and Chapters in Books
Islam, Humanisme, dan Etika: Implementasinya dalam Indonesia Kontemporer. (Islam, Humanism and Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia) in: A. Hastin (ed.) Islam dan Humanisme. Altalisasi Humanism Islam di Tengah Krisis Humanisme Universal (Islam, Humanism and Ethics: Implications for Contemporary Indonesia), Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2007, pp. 218-236.

Religious Conflict and the Globalization of Knowledge: Indonesia 1978-2004, in Linell Cady and Sheldon Simon (eds.) Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia. Disruption Violence London: Routledge 2006.

Ini Masih Kerajaan (This is Still a Kingdom): Sacred Geography and Social Drama in Yogyakarta." Pp. 227-45 in Sacred Places and Modern Landscapes. Sacred Geography and Social-Religious Transformations in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Ronald A. Lukens-Bull. Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series Press. 2003.

Modernity and the Disenchantment of Life: A Muslim Christian Contrast, in, J. Meuleman (ed.) Islam in the Era of Globalization. Muslim Attitudes Towards Modernity and Identity. London: Rutledge Cruzon, pp. 111-142, 2002

Gifts for the Sky People: Animal Sacrifice, headhunting and power among the Naga of Burma and Assam, in, Graham Harvey (ed.) Indigenous Religions. A Companion. London: Cassell pp. 219-229, 2000

Order and Meaning in the Yogyakarta Kraton" in S. Russell and L. Aragon (eds.) Structuralism's Transformations. Order and Revision in Indonesian and Malaysian Societies. Tempe: ASU PSEAS Monograph Series, pp 235-280.

The Biographical Imperative in Theravada Buddhism, in, J. Schober (ed.) Buddhist Biographical Traditions in South and Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Javanism, Islam and the Plurality of Ethnography." Anthropological Forum 6: 3 (1992), 339-363.

The Garebeg Malud in Yogyakarta: Veneration of the Prophet as Imperial Ritual." Journal of Ritual Studies 5:1 (1991):109-32.

White Papers and Reports: Internet Publications
The Iranian Letter to President Bush: Analysis and Recommendations (With Bud Goodall (Communications), Linell Cady (Department of Religious Studies), Steven Corman (Communications), Kelly McDonald (Communications) and Carolyn Forbes (Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict), ASU Consortium for Strategic Communications, ASU 2006. http://www.asu.edu/clas/communication/about/csc/documents/Iranian_Letter_to_Bush.pdf

Religious Political Parties: Israel, Italy, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka (With Carolyn Warner (Department of Political Science), Miriam Elman (Department of Political Science) and Sumit Gangully (Department of Political Science Indiana University) ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, 2006.

Holy Places and Political Instability in the Contemporary Middle East (With Linell Cady [Department of Religious Studies] and David Damrel [Department of Religious Studies]) ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, 2006.

Prostelytization, Conversion and Political Instability (With George Thomas (School of Global Studies), Linell Cady (Department of Religious Studies), Sani Umar (Department of Religious Studies) and Carolyn Warner (Department of Political Science) ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, 2005.

Religion and Foreign Policy (With George Thomas (School of Global Studies), Linell Cady (Department of Religious Studies), and Carolyn Warner (Department of Political Science) ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, 2005.

Indonesia, Islam and the Prospect for Democracy [Includes translations of Islamist and Liberal Muslim political/religious platforms] Southern Methodist University Asian Studies Symposium, 2004.
http://www.smu.edu/asianstudies/symposium/papers/woodward.html

Works in Progress
Indonesian Islamic Political Parties, Under review Asian Security

From Headhunters to Gatherers of Souls: Conversion to Christianity among the Naga of Assam and Burma

Tropes of the Crusades in Indonesian Islamic Discourse Under consideration, Journal of the American Academy of Religions

Becoming, Muslim, Indonesian and Javanese: Religious Themes in Indonesian Islamic Juvenile Literature

The Singapore Chinese Tooth Relic Temple: Constructing a Buddhist National Identity in a Secular State