Buddhism
Dr. Philip Novak
Professor, Philosophy & Religion
Department of Humanities
novak@dominican.edu
415-485-3279
- World Religions
- Psychology of Religion
- Science and Religion
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Religious Pluralism
Philip Novak took his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1972, and his M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Religion from Syracuse University in 1981. He joined the Dominican faculty in 1980 and is currently a Sarlo Distinguished Professor in the graduate Humanities and in the undergraduate Philosophy and Religion programs. He has published over thirty articles and reviews in scholarly and popular journals, and is the author of "The World's Wisdom," an anthology of the sacred texts of the world's religions (HarperSanFrancisco 1994), "The Vision of Nietzsche" (Vega, 1996), "Buddhism: A Concise Introduction" (co-authored with Huston Smith, HarperSanFrancisco 2002), and the editor of "The Inner Journey: Views from the Buddhist Tradition" (Morning Light, 2005).
