I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden. My work explores ethnographically the socio-economic and demographic complexities of religion in contemporary Japan, focusing on Buddhism, depopulation, and people’s everyday lived experiences
Ting Guo
Smridhi Chadha
Sara Swenson
Caroline Starkey
Caroline Starkey is Associate Professor of Religion and Society in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds (UK). She is a sociologist of religion, interested primarily in Buddhism in contemporary Britain, gender, and
Barbra Clayton
Dr. Barbra Clayton is a scholar of classical Indian and contemporary Buddhism. A specialist in ethics, she is the author of Moral Theory in Śāntideva’s Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue, as well as numerous other publications in this area, including the Oxford Handbook of
Suzanne Newcombe
I have active research interests in the sociology and social history of religion (broadly understood) and extensive specialist knowledge in new and minority religious movements in modern and contemporary Britain and the modern history of yoga both in modern India
Paula Arai
Liu Cuilian
Sarah Jacoby
Sarah Jacoby studies Asian Religions with a specialization in Tibetan Buddhism. She received her B.A. from Yale University, majoring in women’s studies, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies. She is an
Huili Stout
I am a Chinese immigrant, wife, mother, and a Ph.D. student interested in the Chinese religious traditions. I have designed and taught an undergraduate course titled “Zen, Tao, and Confucianism: a Textual and Artistic Experience with the Chinese Tradition” at
Sarah Aoife Richardson
Sarah Aoife Richardson is a historian of the arts and religions of South Asia with a specialization in Buddhist visual and material practice, especially Himalayan painting. Sarah holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (2016), and is an Assistant
Ariana Maki
Ariana Maki holds a Ph.D. in Art History with a focus on Buddhist art and specializations in Himalayan and South Asian art, as well as a minor concentration in Islamic art and architecture. She is presently Associate Director of the
Pascale F. Engelmajer
Pascale F. Engelmajer, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Carroll University, Wisconsin. She is the author of Women in Pāli Buddhism: Walking the Spiritual Path in Mutual Dependence (Routledge) a book that examines women’s spiritual agency, and
Ma Zhen
Ma Zhen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Religious Diversity. She is currently working on a project dealing with transnational interactions between southwest China and Myanmar, with a focus on the two interrelated issues of Theravada Buddhist networks and
Meng Zhang
I hold my doctorate degree in religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington and am now working as an assistant professor at Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. I am primarily interested in early Confucianism, contemporary philosophical ethics in the analytical tradition, theories
Elisabetta Porcu
Elisabetta Porcu is an associate professor of Asian religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. Before coming to South Africa, she worked in Japan (2004-2010) and Germany (2010-2014). She is the Director of the
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
Dr Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko is an anthropologist and the author of Enlightenment and the Gasping City. She has published on the topics of Buddhism, shamanism, postsocialism, economic anthropology, global warming and pollution, and materiality in Mongolia, Australia and India. She is
Wendi Adamek
Wendi L. Adamek is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary and holder of the Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies. Her research interests include medieval Chinese Buddhism and living systems theory. Her latest book
Florence Pasche Guignard
Florence Pasche Guignard is an assistant professor in religious studies at the Université Laval in Quebec City where she teaches courses on South Asian and other religions. Her research addresses topics in historical and contemporary contexts at the intersection of