Meir Shahar

Meir Shahar attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then studied Chinese in Taipei. He obtained a PhD in Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University in 1992.His research interests include the interplay of Chinese religion and Chinese literature, Chinese martial-arts history, Chinese esoteric Buddhism, and the impact of Indian mythology of the Chinese pantheon of divinities.

• Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism. Co-edited with Yael Bentor. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
• Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.
• India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth, Religion, and Thought. Co-edited with John Kieschnick. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
• The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts, The University of Hawai'i Press, 2008.
• Monkey and the Magic Gourd (קוף ודלעת הקסמים) (in Hebrew). By Wu Cheng'en. Translated and Adapted by Meir Shahar. Drawings by Noga Zhang Shahar (נגה ג'אנג שחר). Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2008.
• Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature, Harvard University Asia Center, 1998
• The Chinese Religion (הדת הסינית) (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: The Broadcast University Series Press, 1998.
• Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Co-edited with Robert Weller. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.

• {{cite book |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0009 |year=2013 |editor1-last=Jerryson |editor1-first=Michael |editor2-first=Mark |editor2-last=Juergensmeyer |editor3-first=Margo |editor3-last=Kitts |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |chapter=Violence in Chinese Religious Traditions |title=The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence |pages=183–196 |isbn=978-0-19-975999-6 }}
• {{cite book |doi=10.9783/9780812208924.21 |chapter=Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakūbara, and Kṛṣṇạ |title=India in the Chinese Imagination |year=2014 |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |pages=21–45 |isbn=978-0-8122-4560-8 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |chapter=Religion in The Story of the Stone |pages=133–143 |editor1-first=Andrew |editor1-last=Schonebaum |editor2-first=Tina |editor2-last=Lu |title=Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone |publisher=Modern Language Association |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-60329-111-8 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Shahar |first1=M |chapter=Diamond Body: The Origins of Invulnerability in the Chinese Martial Arts |pages=119–128 |oclc=823880846 |editor1-last=Lo |editor1-first=Vivienne |title=Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality |date=2012 |publisher=British Museum |isbn=978-0-86159-188-6 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |chapter=Vernacular Fiction and the Transmission of Gods' Cults in Late Imperial China |pages=184–211 |jstor=j.ctt6wr0f7.9 |editor1-first=Meir |editor1-last=Shahar |editor2-first=Robert P. |editor2-last=Weller |title=Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China |date=1996 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |isbn=978-0-8248-1724-4 |oclc=45733689 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |title=Ming-Period Evidence of Shaolin Martial Practice |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |date=2001 |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=359–413 |doi=10.2307/3558572 |jstor=3558572 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |title=Epigraphy, Buddhist Historiography, and Fighting Monks: The Case of The Shaolin Monastery |journal=Asia Major |date=2000 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=15–36 |jstor=41645561 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Shahar |first1=Meir |title=The Lingyin Si Monkey Disciples and The Origins of Sun Wukong |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |date=1992 |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=193–224 |id={{Gale|A12559459}} |doi=10.2307/2719331 |jstor=2719331 }}

The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts

• {{cite journal |last1=Henning |first1=Stanley E. |title=Review of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts |journal=China Review International |date=2008 |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=423–430 |doi=10.1353/cri.0.0177 |jstor=23733226 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Chau |first1=Adam Yuet |title=Review of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts |journal=The China Journal |date=2009 |issue=62 |pages=151–153 |doi=10.1086/tcj.62.20648128 |jstor=20648128 }}

Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins

• {{cite journal |last1=Bryson |first1=Megan |title=Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and His Indian Origins |journal=Journal of Chinese Religions |date=2 July 2016 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=204–206 |doi=10.1080/0737769X.2016.1207372 |s2cid=171163813 }}

Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature

• {{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Richard |title=Review of Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature |journal=History of Religions |date=2002 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=294–297 |doi=10.1086/463687 |jstor=3176537 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Kardos |first1=Michael A. |title=Review of Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature |journal=Asian Folklore Studies |date=2001 |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=366–368 |doi=10.2307/1179071 |jstor=1179071 }}

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• {{Official website|http://www.tau.ac.il/~mshahar}}
• https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/mshahar

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