{"id":189,"name":"Esther-Maria Guggenmos","url":"https:\/\/lu.academia.edu\/EstherMariaGuggenmos","description":"Esther-Maria Guggenmos is Professor of the History of Religions at Lund University specializing on contemporary religion in East Asia. As Privatdozentin in Religious Studies of the University Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg, she directed the Asia department at KAAD, Bonn (2020-2022). Until March 2020, she stayed at the KHC Erlangen (www.ikgf.fau.de) as visiting fellow completing her habilitation (Habilitation Award, FAU 2019). She served as deputy chair of Sinology at the Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2015-2017), as visiting professor of religious studies at M\u00fcnster University (2014-2015), and as research coordinator at the IKGF (2009-2015). Trained in Religious Studies, Sinology, and Theology at the University of M\u00fcnster, Fujen University (Taiwan, DAAD), and Ghent University (Belgium, FWO fellowship), Guggenmos has specialised in Chinese Buddhism, processes of cultural exchange, and religious aesthetics. In her Ph.D. thesis (Gent 2010), she showed how far \u201eBuddhism\u201c is an attractive choice for religious belonging in the urban regions of Taiwan. Guggenmos\u2019 current research interests lie in the field of Chinese Buddhist apocrypha, transmission processes of Buddhist ideas, the role of religion (especially Buddhism and Christianity) in Chinese cultures and hybrid spaces, contemporary Chinese Buddhism, and religious aesthetics. Guggenmos has taught courses on religious studies as well as sinology, ranging from the theory and method of religious studies, the history of religions in Europe and Asia, to Classical Chinese, Chinese art history, the Silk Road, Chinese leisure time activities of the upper class literati, and courses directly related to her research such as on Buddhism and its Chinese transformations, divination and concepts of fate and prediction. She is speaker of the research group on religious aesthetics of the German Association for the Study of Religions (DVRW). Guggenmos has led several excursions and academic visits to China and Taiwan and regularly engages in academic exchange across Asia.","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/author\/esther-maria-guggenmos\/","slug":"esther-maria-guggenmos","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1839868d8d552803fca449df221740d8?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1839868d8d552803fca449df221740d8?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1839868d8d552803fca449df221740d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}