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Lee Yearley works in comparative religious ethics and poetics, focusing on materials from China and the West. He is the author of "Ideas of Newman: Christianity and Human Religiosity" and "Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage," along with numerous journal articles and essays in edited volumes. Yearley holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has held various academic appointments, including the Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professorship in Oriental Philosophies, Religions, and Ethics at Stanford University since 1993. He has also served as a Luce Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of Religion and as the Henry Luce Professor of Comparative Religious Ethics at Amherst Five Colleges. Throughout his career, he has received several honors, including a Rockefeller Fellowship and the Peter S. Bing Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. His teaching focuses on the interplay of culture and ethics, with an emphasis on religious studies.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Professor of Religious Studies with a focus on comparative religious ethics.
Amherst Five Colleges • Amherst, MA
Henry Luce Professor of Comparative Religious Ethics.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Professor in the Department of Religious Studies.
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