{"id":9479,"date":"2022-02-08T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9479"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:43:09","slug":"yair-lior","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/yair-lior\/","title":{"rendered":"Yair Lior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yair Lior earned his B.A. in Philosophy and East Asian studies at Tel-Aviv University, an M.A. in Chinese traditional aesthetics from BNU China, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University. Lior\u2019s academic background is in comparative religion, the scientific study of religion, and Chinese religions with a focus on Song Dynasty intellectual history. More broadly, Lior is interested in the application of innovative methodologies to comparative religion, including systems theory, information theory and a cultural evolutionary framework.<\/p>\n<p>Lior teaches BU\u2019s introduction to Religion course (RN100), Jewish mysticism \u2013 Kabbalah (RN326\/626), Chinese religions and philosophy (RN211), and Religion &amp; Science (RN239)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2021\/09\/Yair-Lior_CV1.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAS RN 100 Introduction to Religion<\/li>\n<li>CAS RN 216 Judaism<\/li>\n<li>CAS RN 239 Religion and Science<\/li>\n<li>CAS RN 325\/625 Jewish Mysticism I: Formative Traditions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9480,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9479\/revisions\/9480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}