Christopher Bell
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Christopher Bell, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of religious studies at Stetson University. He received his bachelor of arts degree in creative writing and religions and his master of arts degree in religious studies from Florida State University. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia, where his area of concentration has been in Tibetan and Buddhist studies. He has experience as a teaching assistant and as an instructor at both Florida State University and at the University of Virginia, as well as experience for one year as a teaching associate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. During his graduate program he was awarded a Fulbright Institute of International Education Graduate Fellowship for International Study and completed extensive multi-country field research in the Chinese cities of Xining, Chengdu, and Lhasa, Tibet, as well as in Dharamsala, India. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
- M.A., Florida State University
- B.A., Florida State University
Course Topics
- Religions of the East
- Buddhism: The Middle Way
- The Religion and Culture of Hinduism
- Religions of India
Research Interests
- Tibetan deity cults and rituals
- Eastern models of divinity
- Asian demonologies
Publications
- "The Ritual Evolution of the Nechung Protectors." In Proceedings of the Third International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, forthcoming.
- "Divination, Prophecy and Oracles in Tibetan Buddhism." In Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist. Sarah Harvey and Suzanne Newcombe, eds. London: Ashgate, 2013.
- Book Review of Tibetan Ritual, edited by José Ignacio Cabezón. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 5 (December 2009).
