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Employment
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1990-
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University (Assistant Professor, 1990-1992; Associate Professor, 1992-2000; Chair, 2006-2013; Director of Graduate Studies, 2015- ), and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
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1986-90
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Assistant Dean for Study Abroad and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke University
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1980-86
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke University
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Academic Interests
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Religion and ritual; economic culture; nature and environment; civil association and political change; kinship; peasantries and rural unrest; China and Taiwan
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Education
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1975-81 The Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology, Ph.D.
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(1976-77 Stanford University, Program in East Asian Studies, on leave from Johns Hopkins)
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1974-75 Yale University, Anthropology, transferred
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1970-74 Yale University, Anthropology, B.A.
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Honors and Awards
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2020
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Lichtstern Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
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2019-20
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Honorary Professor, Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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2019-20
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Early Stage Research Grant, Boston University Initiative on Cities
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2019
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Publication Subvention Grant, Fritt Ord Foundation, Norway
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2016-19
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Visiting Professor, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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2015
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Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Induction and Address, Boston University
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2013-14
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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2013-14
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Fulbright Award
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2014-19
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Chair of the Overseas Section, 海外文化研究专业委员会学术委员会 [Academic Committee of the Overseas Cultural Studies Committee, China]
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2012-18
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Honorary member, Expert Advisory Board, Research Center on Philanthropy and the Public Good, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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2010
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Michaelsen Endowed Visiting Scholar for 2010-11, University of California, Santa Barbara
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2010-
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Center Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
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2005-08
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Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Grant (co-PI)
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2003-04
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Humanities Foundation Grant, Boston University
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2002-03
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Humanities Foundation Grant, Boston University
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1998-00
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Himalaya Foundation Grant
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1992
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
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1986
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American Council of Learned Societies Intl. Conference Grant
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1684-85
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Duke University Research Council Major Grant
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1981
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Duke University Research Council Grant
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1977-79
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National Science Foundation Grant
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1977-79
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Social Science Research Council Intl. Doctoral Research Fellowship
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1976
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant-in-Aid
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1975-77
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Johns Hopkins University Fellowship
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1974-75
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Yale University Fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa
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Publications
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Authored Books
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2019
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How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor (2nd author, with Adam Seligman). New York: Oxford University Press.
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2018
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Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies (1st author, with Chien-yu Julia Huang, Keping Wu, and Lizhu Fan). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2012
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Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity (2nd author, with Adam Seligman). New York: Oxford University Press.
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2008
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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (2nd author, with Adam Seligman, Michael Puett, and Bennett Simon). New York: Oxford University Press. (Italian translation, 2011, Rito e modernità: I limiti della sincerità, Armando Editore. Russian translation of ch. 1 as "Да здравствует ритуал!" in Historical Psychology and Sociology of History, 2009(2):171-183.)
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2006
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Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. Cambridge University Press.
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1999
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Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy. Westview. Paperback edition, 2001.
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1994
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Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen. Macmillan Press and University of Washington Press.
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1987
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Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Macmillan Press and University of Washington Press.
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Edited Works
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2020
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Symposium: The Achievement of David Martin (with Adam B. Seligman). Special issue of Society 57(2).
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2020
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It Happens Among People: Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth (2nd editor, with Keping Wu). New York: Berghahn Books.
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2019
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Testing the Margins of Leisure: Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia (4th editor, with R. Wagner, C. Yeh, and E. Menegon). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing (open access at https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/heiup/catalog/book/550).
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2015
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江南地区的宗教与公共生活 [Religion and Public Life in China's Lower Yangzi Region]. Editor, with Lizhu Fan. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press.
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2005
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Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia: Organizing Between Family and State. Editor. Routledge (paperback edition, 2007).
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1996
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Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Editor, with Meir Shahar. University of Hawai'i Press.
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1987
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Symposium on Hegemony and Chinese Folk Ideologies. Editor, with Hill Gates. Special issues of Modern China, 13, nos. 1 and 3.
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1982
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Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Editor, with Scott E. Guggenheim. Duke University Press. Paperback edition, 1989.
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Journal Articles
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i.p.
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“Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits: Disturbed Ecosystems in Southern Jiangsu.” Current Anthropology.
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i.p.
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"华人的宗教性慈善与社会资本的限制 [Chinese Religious Philanthropy and the Limits on Social Capital]." 宗教人类学 [Anthropology of Religion].
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2020
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“Respecting Silence: Longing, Rhythm, and Chinese Temples in an Age of Bulldozers.” History & Anthropology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2020.1777112.
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2020
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“Introduction” (1st author, with Adam B. Seligman). In Symposium: The Achievement of David Martin (edited by Adam B. Seligman and Robert Weller), special issue of Society, 57(2):129-131, https://rdcu.be/b2Q6E.
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2020
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“David Martin and the Sociology of Hope” (2nd author, with Adam B. Seligman). In Symposium: The Achievement of David Martin (edited by Adam B. Seligman and Robert Weller), special issue of Society, 57(2):180-184.
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2019
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"Goddess Unbound: Chinese Popular Religion and the Varieties of Boundary." Journal of Religion, 99(1):18-36.
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2017
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"Salvaging Silence: Exile, Death, and the Anthropology of the Unknown." Anthropology of this Century, 19 (May): http://aotcpress.com/articles/salvaging-silence/.
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2017
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"On the Boundaries Between Good and Evil: Constructing Multiple Moralities in China" (joint author with Keping Wu). Journal of Asian Studies 76(1): 47-67.
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2017
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"全球宗教变迁与华人社会：世俗化、宗教化、理性化、与躯体化 [Globalizing Religious Change and Chinese Societies: Secularization, Religionization, Rationalization, and Embodiment]." 华东师范大学学报 [Journal of East China Normal University], 2017(2): 48-55. Reprinted in Fan Ke and Yang Der-Ruey (eds.), "俗"与"圣"的文化实践 [The Cultural Experience of "Profane" and "Sacred] (Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe), 2018: 19-34. (Revised translation of Weller 2015.)
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2016
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"Паметта, Mетафората и Double Bind [Memory, Metaphor, and the Double Bind]" (2nd author, with Adam Seligman). In Християнство и Kултура [Christianity and Culture], 117: 85-103.
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2015
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"‘善’与‘恶’界限的多重性：中国道德体系中的包容性及其后果 [The Multiple Borders of Good and Evil: Tolerance in the Chinese Moral Order]." 宗教人类学 [Anthropology of Religion], 6:18-39.
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2015
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"Global Religious Changes and Civil Life in Two Chinese Societies: A Comparison of Jiangsu and Taiwan." Review of Faith & International Affairs 13(2):13-24 (also online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2015.1039305). Translated as "全球宗教变迁与中国两个社区的民众." 民俗研究 5:34-43, 2017.
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2014
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"The Politics of Increasing Religious Diversity in China." Daedalus 143 (2), Spring 2014, pp. 1-10.
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2014
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"Pluralism and Chinese Religions: Constructing Social Worlds through Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor" (1st author, with Adam Seligman). Review of Religion and Chinese Society 1:29-47 (also online at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22143955/1/1). Translated as "多元主义与中国宗教：通过记忆、摹拟与隐喻建构社会世界" in Fenggang Yang, Shining Gao, and Xiangping Li, eds., 田野歸來——中國宗教和中國社會研究, vol. 1, 台灣基督教文藝出版社.
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2013
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"Taiwan and Global Religious Trends." Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies [台灣宗教研究] 12:9-34.
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2012
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"The Dynamics of Religious Philanthropy in Lukang." 宗教人类学[Anthropology of Religion], 3:246-264.
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2006
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"Religions and Philanthropies in Chinese Societies." Society 44(1):42-49.
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2004
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"Authority, Locality, and the Possibility of Alternate Civilities in China and Taiwan." Korea Observer 35(3):361-390.
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2003
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"Afterword: On Global Nation-States and Rooted Universalisms." European Journal of East Asian Studies 2(2):321-328.
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2002
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"The Human Dimensions of Pollution Policy Implementation: Air Quality in Rural China" (3rd author, with William P. Alford, Leslyn Hall, Karen R. Polenske, Yuanyuan Shen, and David Zweig). The Journal of Contemporary China 11:495-513.
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2001
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"Dangdai Huaren Chengshi Shehui de Minjian Zuzhi: Taibei, Xianggang, Guangzhou, Xiamen de Bijiao Fenxi [Civil Associations in Contemporary Chinese Urban Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Taibei, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Xiamen]" (with Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hsin-chi Kuan, Kim Man Chan, Qiu Haixiong, Lü Dale, Yang Guozhen, and Huang Shunli). PROSEA East Asia Research Paper No. 10, Academia Sinica. Reprinted as Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Occasional Paper No. 123, March 2002.
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2000
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"From State-Owned Enterprise to Joint Venture: A Case Study of the Crisis in Urban Social Services" (with Jiansheng Li). China Journal 43:83-99.
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1998
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"Zongjiao yu 'Xin Taiwan Rentong': Yixie Chubu Sisuo [Religion and New Taiwanese Identities: Some First Thoughts]." Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences No. 11:73-82. English version in Harvard Studies on Taiwan: Papers of the Taiwan Studies Workshop, vol. 3, pp. 225-232, 2000.
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1998
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"Merit and Mothering: Women and Social Welfare in Taiwanese Buddhism" (with Chien-Yu Julia Huang). Journal of Asian Studies 57(2):379-396. Korean translation in Taeman pulgyo ŭi 5 kaji songgong kodŭ 대만불교의5가지성공코드 [Five Reasons for the Success of Taiwanese Buddhism], Seoul: Pulgwang Publishers, 2012.
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1995
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"Antecedents of an Environmental Movement in Taiwan" (co-authored with Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Lester W. Milbrath). Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 6(3):91-104.
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1995
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"Matricidal Magistrates and Gambling Gods: Weak States and Strong Spirits in China." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 33:107-124.
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1992
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"Tradition und Modernisierung in Sudostasien." Transit 3:206, 210-215.
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1991
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"Using the Old to Build the New (Taiwan)." Optima 38:12-17.
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1987
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"Historians and Consciousness: The Modern Politics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." Social Research 54:731-755.
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1987
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"Hegemony and Chinese Folk Ideologies" (with Hill Gates). Modern China 13:3-16.
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1987
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"The Politics of Ritual Disguise: Repression and Response in Taiwanese Religion." Modern China 13:17-39.
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1985
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"Bandits, Beggars and Ghosts: The Failure of State Control over Religious Interpretation in Taiwan." American Ethnologist 12:46-61. Reprinted in Maxine Weisgrau and Morton Klass (eds.), Beyond the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Westview, 1999.
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1984
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"Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan." Ethnology 23:249-260.
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1982
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"Sectarian Religion and Political Action in China." Modern China 8:463-483.
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1981
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"Affines, Ambiguity, and Meaning in Hokkien Kin Terms." Ethnology 20:15-29.
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