Monographs:
- Debating Transcendence: Creatio Ex Nihilo and Sheng Sheng, in the series of “Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions,” Fordham University Press (Nov 4th, 2025)
- Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy – from the Perspective of Metaphysics and Physics (in Chinese), Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2012. 豆瓣评论：宋斌：论笛卡尔的机械论哲学.
Translations:
- Ru Meditation: Gao Panlong (1562-1626 C.E). Boston: Ru Media Company, 2017. An annotated translation of Gao Panlong’s writings on Ru meditation. Featured at the international blog of Chinese Philosophy Warp, Weft and Way: http://warpweftandway.com/new-book-song-trans-ru-meditation-gao-panlong-1562-1626-c-e/, posted Dec. 23, 2017. Reviewed by Leah Kalmanson, Philosophy East and West 68(4): 1-5 (2019). Assigned by Dr. Leah Kalmanson in the department of philosophy and religion at Drake University as a text book for the 2018 fall course on Chinese philosophy.
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- The former book is furthermore translated into Indonesian by Mr. Budi Wijaya, the Chairman of Foreign Affairs at the Supreme Council of Confucian Religion in Indonesia in December 2018. Its Indonesian title is “Meditasi Ru: Gao Panlong (1562-1626 SM.)” Its beautiful cover and illustrations are designed by Mr. Wijaya’s daughter, who graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
- 莱布尼茨传记，北京：中国人民大学出版社, 2015. Translation of Maria Rosa Antognazza, Leibniz An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Selected for the press’s exhibition on the World Congress of Philosophy at Beijing, 2018. 豆瓣评论.
Edited Special Journal Issues:
Guest editor and introduction of “The Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR) and Theology Without Walls (TWW),” Journal of Interreligious Studies, Vol. 34, 2022.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“When the Fire Came: A Retelling of the Confucian Sacred Story,” co-authored with Anna Sun and Pauline Lee, in Retelling Sacred Stories: Our Journey to a Shared Sacred Story, Fetzer Institute (Orbis Books, 2025), pp. 141-186.
“Ru Meditation and Philosophical Anthropology in Late Ming,” in Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers:Chinese Imperial Philosophy after Buddhism, Vol. II, ed. by Dawid Rogacz and Selusi Ambrogio (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), pp.313-322.
“Yang Shi’s Confucian Quiet‐Sitting Meditation: A Distinction from Cheng Yi and Huayan Buddhism.” Religions 2024, 15(12), 1537. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/12/1537.
“As Ground of Being, God Favors Good over Bad Choices: Confucian Response to Wesley J. Wildman,” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, Vol. 45, No.1 (January 2024): 50-68.
Bin Song and Stephen C. Angle, “A Ruist (Confucianist) Vision” in What Is the Good Life?: Perspectives from Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology, ed. by Drew Collins, Matthew Croasmun (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023), pp.65-91.
“A Ru (Confucian) Theology of Nondualism in Light of Kongzi and Wang Yangming,” in Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration, ed. by Jon Paul Sydnor and Anthony Watson (Lexington Books, 2023): pp.243-260.
“Significant Figures in Confucianism (Ruism),” in Routledge Research Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies: Chinese Religion and Philosophy, ed. by Zhouxiang Lu (Routeldge, December 2023).
“Is There or Shall We Need a ‘Home’ for Comparative Theologies? A Ru (Confucian) Response to Francis X. Clooney,” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology: A Festschrift in Honor of Francis X. Clooney, SJ, ed. by Axel Takacs, Joseph Kimmel (Wiley Blackwell, 2023): pp.491-500.
“A Study of Cheng Yi’s Quiet-Sitting Meditation and Other Contemplative Practices in the Confucian Context.” The Journal of Contemplative Studies. Sep. 2023. pp. 1-46.
“Ideal and Reality: An Interreligious Reading of the Gospel of John and the Mengzi“, in Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies, Ed.by Lucinda Mosher (Georgetown University Press, 2022): pp.302-307.
“Donald Trump, Mao Zedong and Religious Anti-Intellectualism,” in Dead Precedents: Trump’s Parallel Lives, ed. by Michael Harvey (Routledge/ Taylor & Francis, 2022): pp. 94 -110.
“The Utopian Seed of Modern Chinese Politics in Ruism (Confucianism) and its Tillichian Remedy,” in Why Tillich? Why Now?, edited by Thomas Bandy (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2021): pp. 95-110.
“Contemporary Business Practices of the Ru (Confucian) Ethic of ‘Three Guides and Five Constant Virtues (三綱五常)’ in Asia and Beyond,” Religions 12, no. 10: 895. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100895.
“Is Mengzi or Xunzi more Protestant?” in Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, Vol. 46, No. 3 and 4, 2020, pp. 10-13.
“Comparative Theology as a Liberal Art,” in Journal of Interreligious Studies, No. 31, Nov. 2020, pp. 92-113.
“Robert C. Neville: A Systematic, Nonconformist, Comparative Philosopher of Religion,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol. 40, No. 3, Sep. 2020, pp.11-30.
Bin Song and Benjamin L. Butina, “An Empirical Study and Theoretical Reflection on the Knowledge and Perceptions of Ruism in the United States,” in Confucian Academy (English-Chinese bilingual), 2019 (1): 75-91, 183-192.
“Comparative Metaphysics and Theology as a Scientific Endeavor: A Ruist (Confucian) Perspective,” Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry 1, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 203-224. Featured by the “Global Center for Religious Research.”
“Confucianism, Gapponshugi, and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism,” in Confucian Academy (English-Chinese bilingual), 2018 (4): 79-89, 176-188.
“Shengsheng and the Confucian Sacred Canopy in the Yijing,” 周易研究Zhouyi Studies (English version), Vol.9, no.1, June 2018: 33-55.
“The Confucian Philosophy of Education in Hexagram ‘Meng’ (Shrouded) of the Yijing,” in Confucianism Reconsidered: Insights for American and Chinese Education in the 21st Century, edited by Xiufeng Liu and Wen Ma. New York: State University of New York Press, 2018 (June): pp.131-150.
Academic Adviser and Co-author for “Mencius 372-289 B.C,” in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC), edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 197, Gale, 2018: pp 103-297.
“Political Mysticism and Political Theology of Dorothee Sölle,” Studies in Spirituality, vol. 26, 2016: pp.331-344.
Other publications:
- I am a contributor of Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/binsong1981-695) from 2016-2018.
A fuller upload of publications, including book reviews, can be found in Bin Song’s academia account.
A fuller list of publication can be found at Bin Song’s C.V.
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