lunes, 1 de julio de 2013

Business and Buddhism panelists, Association for Asian Studies conference March 2014

We are seeking participants to join a panel that investigates the multifarious relationships between business and Buddhism, money matters and monasteries, wealth and virtue in Asia.

Possible topics include the textual foundation of Buddhist ideas on wealth and virtue; monastic communities' income-generating activities; businessmen's sponsorship of Buddhist activities; the commercialization of Buddhist artifact production; the commodification of sacred landscape; Buddhist narratives of how to acquire and distribute wealth; and Buddhist approaches to mitigate social-economic inequalities.

We aim to form an interdisciplinary panel for the AAS 2014 conference together with scholars from anthropology, cultural geography, religious studies, development studies, history, cultural studies, or other disciplines. Our objective is to establish an international network of researchers who share an interest in the historical and contemporary developments of Buddhist economy, and who would like to discuss relevant methodological and theoretical issues in an interdisciplinary forum.

Please contact us off-list and well ahead of the AAS deadline on the 8th of August.

Dr. Trine Brox [trinebrox@hum.ku.dk]
Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Tracy Y. Zhang [t.y.zhang420@gmail.com]
The Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment,
Concordia University, Canada