Professor of Asian Studies
At Berea College since 2002
Visit Dr. Richey’s faculty website

Contact Information

Draper Building, 102C
CPO 1882
Email: richeyj@berea.edu
Phone: 859-985-3186

Spring 2023

Office Hours

Mon/Wed: 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Class Schedule

• AST 135  (Tue/Thur: 10:00 am – 11:50 am)
• GSTR 410-D (Tue/Thur: 1:00 pm – 2:50 pm)
• GSTR 410-E  (Mon/Wed: 12:40 pm – 2:30 pm)

Degrees

• B.A. Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1994
• M.T.S. Religions of the World, Harvard University, 1997
• Ph.D. Cultural and Historical Study of Religions, Graduate Theological Union, 2000

Selected Publications

• Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s History in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam.  Revised and expanded 2nd edition.  New York: Columbia University Press for the Association for Asian Studies, 2022.
• “Using Film to Teach about Compressed Modernity in East Asian Religions.”  Journal of Religion and Film 26/2 (2022)
• Chinese Influences on Japanese Religious Traditions (editor), special issue of Religions, vol. 12 (2021)
• “Daoist Cosmogony in the Kojiki 古事記 Preface.” Religions 12/9 (2021): 761.
• “The Comma at the End of the Silk Road: Magatama and the Development of an Early Eastern Eurasian Ornamental Motif.”  Sino-Platonic Papers 299 (March 2020): 1-33.
• “The Power of Fan: Reversal, Rebellion, and Return in the Star Wars Saga.”  Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship 1/1 (2019).
• “My Students and Asia: Then and Now.” Education About Asia 23/3 (Winter 2018): 16-20.
• “‘Honor the Power Within’: Daoist Wizards, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Japan’s Spiritual Crisis.” In Ken Koltun-Fromm and Assaf Gamzou, eds., Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2018), 172-192.
• “Confucius.” In Tim Wright, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
• Daoism in Japan: Chinese Traditions and Their Influence on Japanese Religious Culture (editor and contributor) (London and New York: Routledge, 2015).
• “Society and Culture: Confucianism in East Asia Today.” In Anne Prescott, ed., East Asia in the World: An Introduction (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 174-184.
• The Sage Returns: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China (co-editor [with Kenneth J. Hammond] and contributor) (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015).
• “Jackie Chan as Confucian Critic: Contemporary Popular Confucianism in China.” In John M. Thompson, ed., Sacred Matters, Stately Concerns: Essays on Faith and Politics in Asia (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2014), 169-180.
• “Confucius.” In Kerry Brown, ed., Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2014), 1:44-58.
• Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s History in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam (Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2013).
• The Patheos Guide to Confucianism (Denver, CO: Patheos Press, 2012).
• “New Views of Early Japanese Religions.” Religious Studies Review 37/2 (2011): 93-96.
• “I, Robot: Self as Machine in the Liezi.” In Jeffrey Dippmann and Ronnie Littlejohn, eds., Riding the Wind with Liezi: New Scholarship on the Daoist Classic (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011), 193-208.
• Teaching Confucianism (editor and contributor) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
• “Master and Disciple in the Analects.” In David Jones, ed., Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2008), 243-251.
• “Lost and Found Theories of Law in Early China.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49/3 (2006): 329-343.
• “A Confucian Pluralist Ethic? Some Clues from the Analects.” International Review of Chinese Religion and Philosophy 6 (March 2001): 39-48.
• “Enduring Myths and Emerging Trends in the Study of Early Chinese Philosophy and Religion.” Asian Studies Newsletter 46/1 (February 2001): 13.
• “Ascetics and Aesthetics in the Analects.” Numen 47 (May 2000): 161-174.