JEFFREY L. RICHEY is Associate Professor of Religion and Coordinator of Asian Studies at Berea College. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he completed graduate studies in East Asian religious history at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley before earning his Ph.D. in Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions with a concentration in East Asian religions at the Graduate Theological Union. He has edited and contributed to several books on Confucian traditions, including Teaching Confucianism (New York: Oxford University Press), The Patheos Guide to Confucianism (Denver: Patheos Press), and The Sage Returns: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China (Albany: SUNY Press).