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
