Dr. Steven Heine - Director of Asian Studies

ASN 5313 / ASN 4510 Survey of Modern Asia, Spring 2008
ASN 5120 / ASN 4510 Japanese Religion and Society, Fall 2007
ASN 5306 / ASN 4510 Asian Cultural Values in Business, Fall 2006

Dr. Steven Heine is Professor of Religion and History as well as Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Florida International University. He specializes in East Asian and and comparative religions, Japanese Buddhism and intellectual history, Buddhist studies, and religion and social sciences. Professor Heine teaches a variety of courses including Japanese culture and religion, Zen Buddhism and philosophy, Ghosts, spirits and folk religions, and religions of the Silk Road.

Dr. Heine has applied for numerous grants and overseen over $1.5 million in external funding from U.S. Department of Education, the Japan Foundation, the Freeman Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.

He is a recipient of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Award for a lifetime of achievement in service to the exchanges between Japan and America and contributing to the benefit of Japan-U.S. relations (Spring 2004), the only non-Japanese or Japanese-American among the recipients of the award in the Florida state district.

In 2006, Steven Heine was awarded the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Professors Award in the FIU’s Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center housed in the College of Business Administration that will lead to research and a seminar on Asian cultural values in business.

On April 29, 2007 the Government of Japan conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette to Steven Heine. This award is in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the study of Japanese culture and the promotion of understanding of Japan.

Dr. Heine has published 20 books and dozens of articles in refereed journals and collections such as Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Journal of Asiatic Studies, among others. Some of his publications include (selected):

Books on Zen Buddhism

Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theories in Practice, co-edited (Oxford University Press, 2007)
White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, co-edited (Oxford University Press, 2005)
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, co-edited (Oxford University Press, 2004)
The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, co-edited (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in Fox Koan (University of Hawaii Press, 1999)

Books on Dogen

Did Dogen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It (Oxford University Press, 2006)
The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace (Dharma Communication, 2005)
Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts (SUNY Press, 1993)
A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen Zen (Peter Lang Publishing Group, 1989)
Existential and Ontological Dimensions in Heidegger and Dogen (SUNY Press, 1985)

Edited Books by Masao Abe

Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)
Zen and Comparative Studies: Part Two of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought (University of Hawaii Press, 1996)
Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought (University of Hawaii Press, 1995)
A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion (SUNY Press, 1991)

Books on Asian Religion and Society

Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition, co-edited (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives, co-edited (SUNY Press, 1995)
A Dream Within a Dream: Studies in Japanese Thought (Peter Lang Publishing Group, 1991)

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For selected reviews of Dr. Heine's books, click here

Professor of Religion and History
Director of the Institute for Asian Studies
Florida International University
Ph. 305-348-1788
Fax 305-348-6586
E-mail heines@fiu.edu

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