Kristin Scheible

Professor of Religion and Humanities

Email | 503-517-5323

Buddhism, Hinduism.

BA 1994 Colby College.
MTS 1997 Harvard Divinity School.
PhD 2006 Harvard University.
Reed College 2014–.

Research Interests

Buddhism and Hinduism
South Asian religious literature
Rhetorical strategies in Pāli and Sanskrit texts
Emotions, ethics, gender(ed) images, non-human characters
Theories and articulations of divine presence
Buddhist history and historical narrative literature (vamsas) in Pāli

Courses

Rel 131 – Introduction to Hinduism
Rel 132 – Introduction to South Asian Buddhism
Rel 201 – Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion
Rel 331 – Lives of the Buddha
Rel 333 – Arousing Faith in Hinduism and Buddhism
Rel 334 – Gender and Buddhism
Rel 335 – South Asian Religious Nationalisms
Rel 336 – Buddhist Ethics