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Harold Coward

Harold Coward is a scholar of international reputation with distinguished contributions to both the University of Victoria and University of Calgary throughout his extensive career. After retiring from the University of Victoria as director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, he continues to be involved as a research fellow. He is currently a member of the Genome BC Board of Directors, where he serves as a specialist on ethics and biotechnology. In June 2002, Dr. Coward was also selected as one of the twenty-five power thinkers in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine.

Leslie S. Kawamura is an Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in Far Eastern Studies (1974). He has studied at the Kyoto University (Japan) and has taught at the Nyingma Institute (Berkeley), Institute of Buddhist Studies (Berkeley), and the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon). His publications include Mind in Buddhist Psychology (with H.V. Guenther, Dharma Press, 1975) and Golden Zephyr (Dharma Press, 1975). He was a founding member of the Honpa Buddhist Church of Alberta and the Canada-Mongolia Society.

Books by Harold Coward

Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada

A Personal Retrospective

by (author) Harold Coward

Language in Indian Philosophy and Religion

edited by Harold Coward

Silence, the Word and the Sacred

edited by E.D. Blodgett & Harold Coward

Reflections on Cultural Policy

Past, Present and Future

edited by Evan Alderson, Robin Blaser & Harold Coward

Religious Dimensions of Child and Family Life

Reflections on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

edited by Harold Coward & Philip Cook

Religion and Ethnicity

edited by Harold Coward
by (author) Leslie Kawamura

Mystics and Scholars

The Calgary Conference on Mysticism 1976

edited by Harold Coward
by (author) Terence Penelhum

Ethics and Climate Change

The Greenhouse Effect

edited by Harold Coward & Thomas Hurka

A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics

edited by Harold Coward & Pinit Ratanakul

Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment

Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

by (author) Rick Searle
edited by Harold Coward

Hard Choices

Climate Change in Canada

edited by Andrew J. Weaver & Harold Coward

Humanities in the Present Day

edited by John Woods & Harold Coward