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- CFP> Journal of Chinese Religions
- LECTURES> Dr. Jens Braarvig, Dr. Ursula Sims-Williams, and Dr. Nicholas Sims-Williams at IRIAB, Soka University (Oct. 21, 2017)
- Grants: The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme Call for applications
- JOB> Asian Religions, Assistant Professor: Earlham College
- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2nd–9th October
CFP> Journal of Chinese Religions
by Philip Clart
Call for Papers
Journal of Chinese Religions
The Journal of Chinese Religions welcomes original research articles, shorter research notes, essays, and field reports on all aspects of Chinese religions in all historical periods. In the 45 years of its existence, JCR has provided a forum for studies in Chinese religions from a great variety of disciplinary perspectives, including religious studies, philology, history, art history, anthropology, sociology, political science, archaeology, and literary studies. See the table of contents below for a snapshot of the current issue (November 2017).
JCR appears in two issues per year and volume, in May and November respectively, both online (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yjch20) and in print.
All prospective authors receive an initial response from the editor within two weeks as to whether their submission is suitable for JCR and can be passed into the peer review phase without significant revisions. Two external reviewers are then given a maximum of three months to conduct a double-blind review of the submitted manuscript. If no major revisions are required at any stage, a manuscript can thus be accepted for publication within less than four months. Accepted articles are queued for publication by acceptance date. At the present time, the earliest open slots for accepted manuscripts are in JCR’s vol. 46, no. 2 (November 2018).
All submissions should be sent to the editor by email attachment in two file formats (Word and PDF).
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have concerning publishing your work in JCR.
Best wishes,
Philip Clart
Editor, Journal of Chinese Religions
jcr@uni-leipzig.de
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JOURNAL OF CHINESE RELIGIONS 45, no. 2 (2017)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Bodhidharma outside Chan Literature: Immortal, Inner Alchemist, and Emissary from the Eternal Realm
STEPHEN ESKILDSEN
Ancestral Force in Iconic Imagery: Death and Continuance in a South China Village
GÖRAN AIJMER
Making “Science” from “Superstition”: Conceptions of Knowledge Legitimacy among Contemporary Yijing Diviners
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
REVIEWS
Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval, The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China (ANNA SUN)
King Pong Chiu, Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought: A Confucian Appropriation of Buddhist Ideas in Response to Scientism in the Twentieth Century (ERIK HAMMERSTROM)
Jennifer Eichman, A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections (YIQUN ZHOU)
Eirik Lang Harris, The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation (YURI PINES)
Steven Heine, Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate (DESHENG ZONG)
Jeehee Hong, Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400 (AURELIA CAMPBELL)
Wilt L. Idema, trans., The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu (KATHERINE ALEXANDER)
Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup, eds., Recovering Buddhism in Modern China (HUNG-YOK IP)
N. Harry Rothschild, Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers (HUAIYU CHEN)
Paul Rouzer, On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems (CHRISTOPHER BYRNE)
Barend J. ter Haar, Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China (THOMAS JANSEN)
Brook A. Ziporyn, Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism (WING-CHEUK CHAN)
LECTURES> Dr. Jens Braarvig, Dr. Ursula Sims-Williams, and Dr. Nicholas Sims-Williams at IRIAB, Soka University (Oct. 21, 2017)
by Noriyuki Kudo
Dear friends and
colleagues,
You are cordially
invited to the following lectures at the International Research Institute for
Advanced Buddhology, Soka University in Tokyo.
Dr. Jens Braarvig
(Professor, University of Oslo, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and
Letters)
Theme: An 8th
century fragment in the Schøyen collection of a synonym lexicon
related to the Amarakośa
Dr. Ursula
Sims-Williams (Lead Curator, The British Library)
Theme: Manuscript
collections and collectors from the Southern Silk Road
Dr. Nicholas
Sims-Williams (Emeritus Professor, University of London, member of the British
Academy)
Theme: From philology
to history: Deciphering the language of ancient Afghanistan
Date: 21, October,
2017
Time: 1300-1700
(JST)
Place: Meeting
Room 8, 12th Floor, Global Square, Soka University
(PDF file in
Japanese)
Contact Phone
Number: +81-(0)42-691-2695
Contact E-mail: iriab@soka.ac.jp
Access (Japanese):
https://www.soka.ac.jp/access/
Access (English): https://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access/
All those who are
interested in the topic will be welcome.
Noriyuki KUDO
The International
Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology
Soka University
Grants: The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme Call for applications
by Jody Butterworth
The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme Call for applicationsDetailed information on the timetable, criteria, eligibility and application procedures is available on the Programme’s website. The deadline for receipt of preliminary grant applications is 17 November 2017.
Since it was established thirteen years ago, the Programme has so far funded over 325 projects in 90 countries worldwide, with grants totalling over £9 million. The Programme is funded by Arcadia, in pursuit of one of its charitable aims to preserve endangered cultural heritage. The aim of the Programme is to contribute to the preservation of archival material worldwide that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. The endangered archival material will normally be located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited.
The Programme’s objectives are achieved principally by awarding grants to applicants to locate relevant endangered archival collections, where possible to arrange their transfer to a suitable local archival home, and to deposit digital copies with local institutions and the British Library. The digital collections received by the British Library are made available on the Programme’s website for all to access. We currently have material from 198 projects online; six and a half million images and 25,000 sound recordings. Pilot projects are particularly welcomed, to investigate the survival of archival collections on a particular subject, in a discrete region, or in a specific format, and the feasibility of their recovery.
To be considered for funding under the Programme, the archival material should relate to a ‘pre-modern' period of a society's history. There is no prescriptive definition of this, but it may typically mean, for instance, any period before industrialisation. The relevant time period will therefore vary according to the society.
For the purposes of the Programme, the term ‘archival material’ is interpreted widely to include rare printed books, newspapers and periodicals, audio and audio-visual materials, photographs and manuscripts.
The Programme is keen to enhance local capabilities to manage and preserve archival collections in the future and it is essential that all projects include local archival partners in the country where the project is based. Professional training for local staff is one of the criteria for grant application assessment, whether it is in the area of archival collection management or technical training in digitisation. At the end of the project, equipment funded through the Programme remains with the local archival partner for future use.
The Programme is administered by the British Library and applications are considered in an annual competition by an international panel of historians and archivists.
For further details of application procedures and documentation as well as EAP projects and collections, please visit the Programme’s website.
Web: http://eap.bl.uk/
Email: endangeredarchives@bl.uk
JOB> Asian Religions, Assistant Professor: Earlham College
by Charles Muller
See: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55785Regards,
Chuck
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2nd–9th October
by Lewis Doney
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 2 October
2017 to 9 October 2017. These job postings are included here based
on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the
H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.
To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu,
or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.ANTHROPOLOGY
Ludwig-Maxilimians-Universitat Munchen - 15 LMU Research Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55716
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Assistant Professor,
Religion and Healing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55724
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Cornell University - Tenure Track Faculty Open Rank, Asian American
Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55713
Harvard Art Museums - Alan J. Dworsky Curator or Associate Curator of
Chinese Art
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55733
Northwestern University - Asian Humanities, Associate or Full
Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55740
University of California - Berkeley - Lecturers - Various Fields of
History - Summer 2018 - Department of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55772
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Assistant Professor,
Religion and Healing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55724
University of Victoria - Associate or Full Professor and Department
Chair
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55769
Vanderbilt University - Assistant Professor of Korean Studies,
Tenure-Track
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55783
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Ludwig-Maxilimians-Universitat Munchen - 15 LMU Research Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55716
Northwestern University - Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital
Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55764
Texas Christian University - Assistant Professorship of Digital
Humanities/Big Data
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55686
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Assistant Professor,
Religion and Healing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55724
Vanderbilt University - Tenure-track Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55781
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Ithaca College - Assistant Professor, East Asian History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55712
LMU Munich - Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology and Material
Culture of Early through Medieval China (Shang through Tang)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55774
New York University - ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Program, 2018-19
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55741
University of Chicago - Assistant Professor in Pre-Modern Japan
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55732
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Assistant Professor,
Religion and Healing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55724
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
American Philosophical Society Library - Research Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55718
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
Vanderbilt University - Tenure-track Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55781
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
University of Maryland - Assistant Professor in Pre-modern Japanese
Literary and Cultural Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55737
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Harvard University - Tenured Professor in Hebrew Bible
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55778
Ludwig-Maxilimians-Universitat Munchen - 15 LMU Research Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55716
Phillips Theological Seminary - History of Christianity
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55731
University of Connecticut - Storrs - Humanities Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55727
University of North Carolina - Charlotte - Assistant Professor,
Religion and Healing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55724
Vanderbilt University - Tenure-track Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55781
NONE
American Philosophical Society - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55704
American University - Beirut - Faculty positions at the rank of
assistant/associate professor:1)Visiting Position in Architecture
(Contemporary Architecture),2)Tenure-Track Position in History of Art
or Architecture,3)Tenure-Track Position in Architecture (Computation
& Digital Tools)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55745
American University - Beirut - Tenure-Track Position in Graphic Design
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55760
California State University - Sacramento - Dean, College of Social
Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55742
California State University - Sacramento - Associate Vice President
for Academic Excellence
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55743
CUNY- School of Professional Studies - Professor Liberal Arts and
Communications
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55777
European University Institute - Postdoctoral Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55703
George Washington University - Teacher/Administrator
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55754
Middle Tennessee State University - Tenure-Track Positions - (1)
pre-1900 African-American History and (1) nineteenth-century US
history with a specialization in the Civil War era
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55719
Queensborough Community College - Facilities Planning Director
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55721
University of California - San Diego - Temporary Lecturer
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55729
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Assistant
Professor (tenure-track)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55763
