Richard E. King is Professor of Buddhist and Asian Studies at the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

, where he specialises in South Asian traditions and critical theory and Religious Studies.

Biography

King obtained his first degree in Philosophy and Theology at

Hull University , mottoeng = Bearing the Torch f learning, established = 1927 – University College Hull1954 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £18.8 million (2016) , budget = £190 million ...

, before completing his PhD in Religious Studies at Lancaster University in 1993. He was appointed Lecturer in Religious Studies at the

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in 1990, where he was subsequently appointed as Reader. In 2000 he moved to

Derby University , mottoeng = Experience is the best teacher , established = 1851 – Teacher Training College1992 – gained university status , type = Public , chancellor = William Cavendish, Ear ...

as Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies department. From 2005 to 2010, he moved to the USA to serve as Professor of Religious Studies at

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; from there he joined the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2010. In December 2012, he was appointed Professor of Buddhist and Asian Studies in the University of Kent. He has served as Visiting Professor and guest lecturer at Liverpool Hope and

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. He contributed to the

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as a member of the advisory committee, and has been invited to offer public lectures by universities throughout Europe and the USA. He has served as co-chair for the Cultural History for the Study of Religion group for the American Academy of Religion.

Works

* ''Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism: the Mahāyāna context of the Gauḍapādīya-kārikā''. Series: SUNY Series in Religious Studies. (State University of New York Press, 1995). * ''Orientalism and Religion : Postcolonial Theory, India and 'the Mystic East' ''. (Routledge, 1999). * ''Indian Philosophy : an Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought''. (Edinburgh University Press, 1999). * with Carrette, Jeremy. ''Selling Spirituality: the Silent Takeover of Religion''. (Routledge, 2005). * with Hinnells, John R. (Eds.) ''Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice''. (Routledge, 2007).

References

External links

University of Kent staff page for Richard King
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