For anyone in the Boston area this Friday, please consider attending
the
following two events at Harvard.
1) Jason Josephson will be
presenting on his exciting new book - The
Invention of Religion in Japan
(Chicago, 2012). Details of this event are
posted at:
http://www.harvard.com/event/jason_nanda_josephson/.
2)
I will be presenting the following talk:
“Thick Conversations: Toward a
Dialogical Theory of Japanese Buddhism”
Based on 14 months of interviews
with 226 Buddhist priests of every stripe
from all over Japan, this talk
presents a series of dialogs about
contemporary temple realities. Rather than
provide ethnographic cover for
over-determined notions of “Japanese
Buddhism”, I want to explore
particular, localized negotiations of various
teachings, customs, and
personalities. This is a search for the “ordinary”
priest. It is as much a
study of doubt and discomfort as of faith and
certainty.
Friday, April 19 from 4:15-5:45 p.m. in the Porte Room (S250),
Second
Level, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge
Street
Mark Rowe
Associate
Professor
Department of Religious Studies
McMaster University
Ontario,
Canada
H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information
Network)
Web Site:
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