Religious Education in a Global-Local World / Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies Bd.4 (PDF)

Religions and Head of Department. He became Professor of the Study of Religions and Head of the newly established Study of Religions Department at UCC in January 2008. He is currently acting Head of the School of Asian Studies at UCC. Professor Bocking's publications include works on Japanese religions and Buddhism as well as essays and articles on the Study of Religions as taught in universities. His books include the first English translation of the 5th century Chinese text of Nagarjuna's Middle Treatise (1995); a Dictionary of Shinto (1996) and a study of the changing form and interpretations over four centuries of a key Japanese religious scroll known as 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines' (in Japanese: sanja takusen) (2000). He has written many articles on Japanese religions, especially New Religions and Shinto, as well as working on theoretical and pedagogical issues in the study of religions including religious 'experience' and the teaching of 'Asian' religions in a globalising society. He is currently researching, with Alicia Turner (York University, Toronto) and Laurence Cox (NUI Maynooth), the life and career of the forgotten 'Irish Buddhist' U Dhammaloka (?1856-?1914), a pioneer Western Buddhist monk celebrated throughout S/E Asia in the early 1900s, and with Laurence Cox and Yoshinaga Shin'ichi (Maizuru College) the life of the Irish Japanologist and pioneer London Buddhist missionary Charles J W Pfoundes (1840-1907).



Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of South Wales. She works on Religious Education in Ireland and published together with Karl Kitching Children's Beliefs and Belonging: A Schools and Families Report from the 'Making Communion' Study (Cork: 2015). In addition, she has a particular research interest in the authority and leadership of Sunni and Shia women and the changing nature of women's participation in religious practices in Europe and the Middle East. Among her most recent publications is 'Remembering Karbala in the Diaspora: Religious Rituals among Iraqi Shii Women in Ireland' (Religion, 45:1, 2015).