Jud Murray
Associate Professor
Department
- Religion and Philosophy
Contact Information
- jmurray88@ctienviron.com
- Trinity Lutheran Seminary 307
Biography
Dr. Murray teaches introductory courses on world religions, Asian religions and philosophies, and comparative ethics, as well as advanced courses on Buddhism, East Asian religions, meditation, and women and religion. He has published studies on the intellectual history of early imperial China and on subjects including Confucian moral education, Confucian mysticism, Daoist mysticism, and agrarianism in East Asian thought. His current research examines Confucian contemplation using the methodologies developed in the field of contemplative studies, including studying the efficacy in improving student learning and wellness of employing contemplative pedagogy that utilizes meditative practices as a mode of experiential learning. Dr. Murray serves as a member of the steering committees for the Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought and for the Confucian Traditions Unit of the American Academy of Religion. He also currently serves as the program coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies at Capital.
- Ph.D., Brown University
- M.T.S., Harvard University
- B.A., The Ohio State University
- Religion, Meaning and Culture
- Introduction to Ethics
- First Year Seminar: Emotions, Attention, and Education
- Introduction to Asian Religions
- Buddhism
- Meditation: Philosophy and Practice
- Women and Religion
- Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar
“Confucian Mysticism.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press. April 2021: 1–70.
“Combating Starvation: Comparing Agrarianism, Ethics, and Statecraft in the Legend of Shen Nong and in Ando Shoeki’s Thought.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18.2 (2019): 197–218.
“Daoist Mysticism.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press. June 2019: 1–40.
“‘Only Jade Can Epitomize Human Virtue’: Ideas on Education and Moral Development in Han-Period China.” Asia Major (Special Issue on Han Thought, ed. Michael Ing and Alexus McLeod), 3rd ser., 29.2 (2016): 73–114.
“The Liu Clan’s ‘Flesh and Bone’: The Foundation of Liu An’s Vision of Empire,” in The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China, ed. Michael Puett and Sarah A. Queen (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 291–325.
“Educating Human Nature: ‘Nature’ and ‘Nurture’ in Early Confucian Moral Education.” The Journal of Moral Education 41.4 (2012): 509–27.
Sarah A. Queen and Judson Murray, “An Overview of the Essentials,” in The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, by Liu An, King of Huainan, trans. and ed. John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 848–867.
“A Study of ‘Yao lüe,’ ‘A Summary of the Essentials’: Understanding the Huainanzi through the Point of View of the Author of the Postface.” Early China 29 (2004): 45–108.