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Henry (Hank) Glassman
The Janet and Henry Richotte 1985 Professor of Asian Studies; Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Haverford College
Graduation Year
2001
Dissertation Title
"The Religious Construction of Motherhood in Medieval Japan"
Degrees / Education
PhD, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Hank's research focuses on sacred art, religious narrative, preaching traditions and gender in medieval Japanese Buddhism. His publications include “Shaka no honji: Preaching, Intertextuality, and Popular Hagiography,” Monumenta Nipponica 62/3 (Autumn 2007); “Chinese Buddhist Death Ritual and the Transformation of Japanese Kinship,” in The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, ed. by Cuevas and Stone (Hawai'i, 2007); and The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Hawai'i, 2012).
