James Wallace Heisig
Nationality：United States of America
Organization/Position
Nanzan University/Professor Emeritus
Fields of researches
Religious philosophy
Degrees
B.A. 1966 Divine Word College(Epworth, Iowa, USA)
M.A. 1969 Loyola University (Chicago, USA)
M.A. 1969 Notre Dame University (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
PhD 1973 Cambridge University (England)
Biography
James W. Heisig (born in the United States in 1944) received PhD from Cambridge University. After lecturing at numerous places in the United States and Central America, he became a director at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture of Nanzan University. Even today, he has made contributions to the field there.
In 2015 , he received Doctor Honoris Causa, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Publication
Of Gods and Minds (Chisokudō Publications, 2019),
Much Ado about Nothingness: Essays on Nishida and Tanabe (Nagoya: Nanzan, 2016),
Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001)，
A Study of C. G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion (Shunjūsha, 1985)
Profile is as of the time of the award