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Hal W. French

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Books:

The Swan's Wide Waters: Ramakrishna and Culture, Kennikat Press, New York, 1974.

Religious Ferment in Modern India, with Arvind Sharma,Heritage, New Delhi; and Sr. Martin's, New York, 1981.

Annals, Southeast Conference , Association for Asian Studies, Editor, 1984-1988, five volumes. Also General Editor, Occasional Papers, four volumes, 1984-1987.

A Study of Religious Fanaticism and Responses to It: Adversary Identity, Edwin Mellen, New York, 1990.

Zen and the Art of Anything, Summerhouse Press, Columbia, 1999; second paperback edition, Broadway Books, New York, 2001.

Articles and Chapters in Books (since 1991):

"Waging Peace", Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, April, 1991.

"Zen, Nihondo, and Technology," Chapter in Buddhism in the Modern World, Fo Kuang Shan, Taiwan, May, 1992.

"The Impact of Swami Vivekananda on the Parliament of Religions", World Faiths, London, June, 1991. Also published in Prabuddha Bharata, Calcutta, September, 1992.

"The Life of Swami Vivekananda," Text for program, 4th International Conference on Vedanta, Miami Univ. of Ohio, April 2-5, 1992.

"Vivekananda and His Western Intimates," Chapter in Swami Vivekananda: Hundred Years Since Chicago: a Commemorative Volume, R.K. Das Gupta, General Editor, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, 1994.

"L.P. Jacks," article for Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume on Twentieth Century British Writers of Short Fiction, William Thesing, Editor. Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Columbia, S.C., 1993.

"A Bengali Original in Chicago: Vivekananda and the World Parliament," Anima, Spring, 1994.

"Zen Self: A Model of Person and Relation," Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol. xvii, 1995.

"Zen and the Art of Anything," in Buddhism and the Coming World Civilization: Essays in Honor of Nolan Pliny Jacobson, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, Carbon-Dale, Ill., 1996.

"An Interfaith Experiment: Partners in Dialogue" (interviewed by K.L. Seshagiri Rao), World Faiths Encounter, London, November, 1997.

"The Victorian Broad Church, Seedbed of Twentieth Century Pluralism", in Implicit Religion, volume 1, 1998 (London).

"A Place of Meeting Rivers," World Faiths Encounter, London, March, 2001.

In Press, two articles for the Encyclopedia of Hinduism, "Swami Vivekananda," and "Colonial Attitudes Toward Hinduism," to be published by the University of South Carolina Press.

Book Notices and Reviews in the following:

Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of Asian Studies
Religious Studies Review
Journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
International Philosophical Quarterly
Hindu Studies
World Faiths Encounter
Victorian Studies
Cross Currents




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