Dr. Oldstone-Moore, Professor of Religion, specializes in Chinese religious traditions, specifically modes of Confucian religiosity, political and social aspects of Confucianism, and the transformation and continuity of the Confucian tradition from imperial to modern China. She has published work and presented papers on the Confucian New Life Movement, the history of study of East Asian Religions, Daoist allegory and alchemy in the Ming novel Journey to the West, and historiographical issues concerning Chiang Kai-shek. She teaches courses in Chinese and Japanese Religion, Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and Chinese popular religion, Religion and Literature in East Asia, political manifestations of Chinese religion, and East Asian Studies. Oldstone-Moore earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She joined the Wittenberg faculty in 2000.

Academic Background:

• B.A. Swarthmore College
• M.A. University of Chicago
• Ph. D. University of Chicago

Contact Information:

• (937) 327-7401
• joldstonemoore@wittenberg.edu