Bardwell Smith
- John W. Nason Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Emeritus, Religion, Asian Studies
- Office: Gould Library 215
- Phone: 507 222 4282
- Email: bsmith@carleton.edu
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Bardwell Smith (Yale, B.A.; Yale Divinity School, B.D.; Yale University, M.A., Ph.D.). Taught at Carleton 1960-1995 in East and South Asian religions and philosophies. His special interests include religion and society in Sri Lanka and Buddhism in Japan. He is the author of Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity: Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving. Some of his other publications have been the following: Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life; Religion and Legitimation of Power in Sri Lanka; Warlords, Artists and Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century; Essays on Gupta Culture; and The City as a Sacred Center: Essays in Six Asian Contexts. He is a Past President of the American Society for the Study of Religion (ASSR, 1996-1999). Earlier he served as Dean of the College, 1967-72.