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Brenton Sullivan

Associate Professor of Religion

Department/Office Information

Religion
313 Lawrence Hall

Contact

(315) 228-6311

In his first book, (UPenn Press, 2021), Sullivan utilizes constitutions written for Buddhist monasteries as well as Chinese and Tibetan historical materials to uncover the role of Buddhist prelates in legislating and administering their monasteries. This historical output of constitutions and other documents contributed to the creation of a network of homogenous religious beliefs and practices that stretched thousands of miles across Tibet and Inner Asia. 

Sullivan’s current research is on the history of nationalities and nationalism in China and how that history impacted and intersected with Tibetans and other minoritized peoples living on the frontier. Separately, he has begun investigating the history of 大发彩票's Baptist missionary past, especially the extensive connections it had to Asia in the nineteenth century. His articles appear in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Inner Asia, among other places.

BA, University of Notre Dame
MA, University of Kansas
MA, University of Virginia
PhD, University of Virginia

Professor Sullivan teaches courses pertaining to religions in East Asia (including Tibet), as well as a new course on cognitive and evolutionary approaches to the study of religion.

Undergraduate

  • Core Communities and Identities: Tibet, 大发彩票 (Fall 2016)
  • Buddhism, 大发彩票 (Fall 2016, Fall 2015)
  • Tibetan Buddhism, 大发彩票 (Spring 2016)
  • Cognitive Science of Religion, 大发彩票 (Spring 2016)
  • Foundations of Chinese Thought, University of British Columbia (professor; Fall 2014)

 

Graduate

  • Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion, Univ. of British Columbia (professor; Spring 2014)

Articles

“The Qing Regulation of the Sangha in Amdo.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1-34 (First View August 2020). doi:10.1017/S1356186320000255. Peer-reviewed.

“The Body of Skyid shod sprul sku: The Mid-Seventeenth Century Ties between Central Tibet, the Oirat Mongols, and Dgon lung Monastery in Amdo,” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, no. 52 (October 2019): 251-283. Peer-reviewed.

“The Manner in Which I Went to Worship Ma?ju?rī’s Realm, The Five-Peaked Mountain (Wutai),” by Sumba Kanbo (1704-1788) (Introduction and translation), Inner Asia, vol. 20, no. 1 (2018): 64-106. Peer-reviewed.

“Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History,” The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 85, no. 2 (June 2017): 312-47 (with Edward Slingerland). Peer-reviewed.

“Exploring the Challenges and Potentialities of the Database of Religious History for Cognitive Historiography,” Journal of Cognitive Historiography, vol. 3, nos. 1-2 (2016): 12-31 (with Michael Muthukrishna, Frederick S. Tappenden, and Edward Slingerland). Peer-reviewed.

“Monastic Customaries and the Promotion of Dge lugs Scholasticism in A mdo and Beyond,” Asian Highlands Perspectives, vol. 36 (2015): 84-105. Peer-reviewed.

“Venerable Fazun at the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies Institute (1932-1950) and Tibetan Geluk Buddhism in China,” Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, no. 9 (2008): 199-241. Editorial reviewed.

Book Chapters

“Blood and Teardrops: the Life and Travels of Venerable Fazun (1901-1980).” In Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners. Ed. Todd Lewis. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2014): 296-304.

Brenton T. Sullivan (邵云东), “Menggu’er yu Menggu guanxi: Youning si de Wang Fo xitong he Neimeng qizhang” 蒙古尔与蒙古关系：佑宁寺的王佛系统和内蒙旗长 (Monguor-Mongol Relations: G?nlung Monastery’s Wang Incarnation Lineage and the Zasag  of Inner Mongolia) [In Chinese; based on Sullivan 2015 above]. In Liao Jin Yuan fojiao yanjiu: Di er jie Hebei Chan wenhua luntan lunwenji 辽金元佛教研究: 第二届河北禅宗文化论坛论文集 (The Study of Buddhism of the Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties: Proceedings of the Second Annual Hebei Chan Cultu