Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Ritual
How does discipline impact the way we see Buddhist ritual? How can more diverse disciplinary conversations help scholars see ritual in new ways? Five scholars from four time zones come together from around the world to discuss the impacts of interdisciplinary approaches to Buddhist ritual.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Rituals [transcript]
Podcast with Ralph H. Craig III, Hannah Gould, Youn-mi Kim, and Michelle C. Wang (7 September 2020). Interviewed by Matthew Hayes Transcribed by David McConeghy Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-the-study-of-buddhist-ritual/ Matthew Hayes 01:52 Hello, I am Matthew Hayes for the Religious Studies Project. I’d like to welcome listeners to a roundtable titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches […]
Ralph H. Craig III
Ralph H. Craig III is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at Stanford University. He has previously written about the theological anthropology of Nichiren Shonin. Currently, he is editing the translation of a Tibetan sūtra, and is under contract to write a religious biography of Tina Turner for the Library of Religious Biography series, Eerdmans […]
Hannah Gould
Hannah Gould is a cultural anthropologist specializing in death, technology, and religion. She recently completed fieldwork within the Buddhist altar and grave industry in Japan, where she examined the emergence and decline of memorial technologies and ritual traditions. Hannah is currently Research Fellow with the DeathTech Research Team based at The University of Melbourne and […]
Michelle C. Wang
Michelle C. Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University. A specialist in medieval Chinese art, her first book Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (Brill, 2018) examines Buddhist mandalas of the 8th-10th centuries at the Mogao and Yulin Buddhist cave shrines […]
Youn-mi Kim
Youn-mi Kim is Associate Professor of Asian Art History at Ewha Womans University. Prior to joining the Ewha faculty, she was Assistant Professor at Yale University (2012-16) and Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (2011-12). She is Editor of New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryo (Harvard University Press, 2013). A grantee of The Robert H. […]
Books as Museums
Might books be a “space” like Museums for the sacred-secular work of Holocaust remembrance? In this response by Samuel J. Spinner to our season 9 episode with Avril Alba, stories take center stage as examples of “cultural innovation necessitated by catastrophe and catalyzed by a reworking of the relationship between people and texts.”
Samuel Spinner
Samuel Spinner is the Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently completing a book, Jewish Primitivism, which examines the relationships between literary, visual, and ethnographic understandings of Jewish identity in modern Europe, locating points of contact with broader modernist and social scientific discourses […]
The Roots of QAnon | Discourse! August 2020
What is QAnon? In this August 2020 episode of Discourse!, David Robertson, Megan Goodwin, Savannah Finver and Jonathon O’Donnell discuss this conspiracy movement’s links to American religious history and contemporary political discourse.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 26 August 2020
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find one chapter call for proposals, two jobs, one journal call for papers, and two post-doctoral positions opportunities. Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon and […]
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion
Can discourse analysis help scholars avoid the pitfalls of studying non-religion? In his new book, RSP Co-Founder Christopher R. Cotter argues it can. Speaking with co-host Breann Fallon, this interview highlights the challenges of studying non-religion while celebrating the promise of new methodologies.
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion [transcript]
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion Podcast with Christopher R. Cotter (23 August 2020) Interviewed by Breann Fallon Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and Transcript Available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/developing-a-critical-study-of-non-religion/ KEYWORDS Non-Religion, Atheism, Agnosticism, Discourse Analysis Breann Fallon (BF) 0:05 Hi, everyone, as you just heard, it is indeed me, Bre Fallon, and I am joined […]
Decolonizing Community-Based Service Learning: Processes and Praxes
What are the challenges for departments and universities as they teach Native American Studies using Community-Based Service Learning models? In this response by Lisa Poirier, we learn that the efforts to decolonize our curricula require not only new critical theorists, but a suffusing commitment to decolonization as transformation in what Natalie Avalos described as “a process of becoming.”
Lisa J.M. Poirier
Lisa Poirier is a scholar of Native American religions and is dedicated to the processes of decolonization. She is a settler of French-Canadian ancestry who serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She lives and works on the traditional lands of the Council of the Three Fires – the Ojibwe, […]
Decolonizing Religious Studies and Its Layers of Complicity
What layers of complicity in colonialism are still embedded in the field of religious studies? How can we learn from decades of decolonial work in Native American and Indigenous Studies? Dr. Natalie Avalos speaks with RSP co-host David McConeghy about the urgency of decolonial scholarship to start the RSP’s 10th season.