Jeffrey Meyer (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of religious studies. He has taught at UNC Charlotte since 1973.

Contact

Department of Religious Studies
9201 University Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223
704-687-4602  jfmeyer@email.uncc.edu

Fall 2005

     RELS 4000.A91 CONFUCIANISM
     RELS 5000.A91 CONFUCIANISM

Research Interests

My longtime interest in sacred cities, especially Beijing, has led me to do research on Washington, DC, as a religious and pilgrimage center for the civic or public religion of the United States.  The outcome is a book, Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., to be published by University of California Press in early 2001, and my current research is on the phenomenon of pilgrimage in traditional China and the differing concepts of sacred space implied as various social groups go on pilgrimage.  I also continue to do research on the Chinese garden and have used the garden as a focus for an article on Taoism and ecology.