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Dr. Scott Lowe - Publications

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Books:

  • Da: The Strange Case of Franklin Jones. Co-authored by Scott Lowe and David Lane. Walnut, CA: Mt. San Antonio College Philosophy Group, 1996. (Reviewed in Nova Religio, v. 1, n. 1, October 1997, p. 153.)


  • Mo Tzu's Religious Blueprint for a Chinese Utopia: the Will and the Way. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. (For review see "Forum on Mo Tzu's Religious Blueprint for a Chinese Utopia: the Will and the Way." Journal of Chinese Religions, n. 22, Fall 1994, pp. 127-136.)

Articles and Chapters:

  • “Chinese Millennial Movements.” In Oxford Handbook of Millennialism , ed. Cathy Wessinger. New York : OUP, 2007 (in press).

  • “Adidam.” In New and Alternative Religions in the U.S. , ed. Eugene V. Gallagher and William M. Ashcraft. Westport , CT : Praeger, 2006, pp. 85-109.

  • "A Religious Analysis of the Mozi." (in Russian) Titarenko Fetschrift (Moscow: Pamyatniki Istoricheskoj Myisli), forthcoming.

  • "Religion on a Leash: New Religious Movements and the Limits of Chinese Freedom." In New Religious Movements in the 21st Century, ed. Phillip Lucas and Tom Robbins. New York and London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 179-190.

  • "Chinese and International Contexts for the Rise of Falun Gong." Nova Religio, v. 6, n. 2. Spring 2003, pp. 263-276.

  • "Mao Shan Revelations." Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2002.

  • "Mozi." Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2002.

  • "Mozi." World Philosophers and Their Works. Edited by John K. Roth, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2002, pp. 1309-1315.

  • "New Religious Movements and the Chinese State." Nova Religio, v. 4, n. 2. Spring 2001, pp. 213-224.

  • "Western Millennial Ideology Goes East: The Taiping Revolution and Mao's Great Leap Forward." In Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Case Histories, ed. Catherine Wessinger. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 220-240.

  • "Moism." Encyclopedia of World Religions. Online at Taiwan Museum of World Religions. Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1998.

  • "Hare Krishna." The Asian American Encyclopedia. Freeport, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

  • "Jainism." The Asian American Encyclopedia. Freeport, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

  • "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi." The Asian American Encyclopedia. Freeport, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

  • "Sikhism." The Asian American Encyclopedia. Freeport, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

  • "Tea." The Asian American Encyclopedia. Freeport, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

  • "Transcendental Meditation." The Asian American Encyclopedia. Freeport, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

  • "The Strange Case of Franklin Jones." In Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical, pp. 50-90. Edited by David Christopher Lane. Hamden, CT and London: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Translations:

  • "Preface to the Thirty-six Views of Bishu Shanzhuang: Record of the Mountain Villa to Escape the Heat." (translation from Classical Chinese) in New Qing Imperial History: the Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde, ed. James Millward, Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott, and Phillip Foret. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, pp. 167-170.

  • "Five Poems by the Qianlong Emperor" (a translation from Classical Chinese) in New Qing Imperial History: the Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde, ed. James Millward, Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott, and Phillip Foret. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, pp. 199-201.

Reviews:

  • Star in the East: Krishnamurti, the Invention of a Messiah, by Roland Vernon. Nova Religio , v. 10, n. 1, August 2006, pp. 131-133.
  • Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History , by Robert C. Fuller. Nova Religio , v. 9, n. 2, November 2005, pp. 136-137.

  • Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures, by David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen. North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 2003, pp. 163-164.

  • Lord of the Three and One: The Spread of a Cult in Southeast China, by Kenneth Dean. China Review International, v. 8, n. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 84-87.

  • The New Age Movement and The Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue, by John P. Newport, Nova Religio, v. 3, n. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 421-422.

  • The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions, by Andrew Rawlinson. Nova Religio, v. 2, n. 2, April 1999, pp. 323-325.

  • Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, by Gopi Krishna. Nova Religio, v. 2, n. 1, October 1998, pp. 155-156.

  • Bloom and Blossom, edited by Mary Swander. North Dakota Quarterly, v. 65, n. 2, Spring 1998, pp. 166-168.

  • Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky, by David L. Kimbrough. Nova Religio, v. 1, n. 1, October 1997, pp. 158-160.

  • The Spirits Are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion, by Jordan Paper. China Review International, v. 3, n. 2, Fall 1996, pp. 507-511.

  • "Secret Societies" Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia, edited by David Owenby and Mary Somers Heidhues. China Review International, v. 2, n. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 197-201.

  • The Unknowing Sage: The Life and Work of Baba Faqir Chand, edited by David Christopher Lane. Gnosis #34, Winter 1995, pp. 65-66.

  • Taoist Meditation, by Isabelle Robinet, translated by Julian F. Pas and Norman J. Girardot. China Review International, v. 1, n. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 214-219.




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