IAHR Executive Committee Members 2010-2015
Treasurer: Brian Bocking, United Kingdom
Brian Bocking Professor of the Study of Religions at University College Cork (UCC), where he is leading the development of the new Study of Religions department, the first of its kind in the Republic of Ireland. Until December 2007 he held the Chair in the study of Religions at SOAS, London, and was previously at Bath, England, Tsukuba, Japan and Stirling, Scotland. He is a former President of the British Association for the Study of Religions. His academic interests extend across the field of the study of religions; most of his publications are in Buddhism, Japanese religions, contemporary religious movements and approaches to the study and teaching of religions. He is currently researching with Alicia Turner (Toronto) and Laurence Cox (NUI Maynooth) the life of the strangely forgotten 'Irish Buddhist' U Dhammaloka, who was active in Burma, Japan, Siam, Singapore, Ceylon, India, Malaya, Penang and Nepal in the years around 1900.
