Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots, scholars of contemporary Asian religion, discuss commercial spirituality and corporate myth-making with examples from…
The corporate nature of “alternative” practices
Buddhism
Overlooking official responses: Thai Buddhist institutions and Covid-19
It is striking to me that most of the discussions of Buddhist responses to Covid particularly in Southeast Asia .…
Circulating publicness and public circulation
How is publicness—the realization of publicity—itself mediated, circulated, and received?
Silencing the monks
Elections do many things, but one thing they are supposed to do is make a people’s opinion known. One group…
Conviction and humility in American Buddhist activism
Despite this image of Buddhists as quiet and humble, inward-looking rather than outward-focused, there is a long tradition of American…
Competing inequalities
Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is a luminous, fiercely argued book. It requires deep and…
Chinese religions in comparative historical perspective
This short essay draws up the principal ideas from a book chapter concerning the historical field of Chinese religions in…
Buddhism in context
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman interviews David McMahan, scholar of Buddhism and modernity, and author of The…
What is religion in China? A brief history
The complex and ever-changing relationship between the Chinese state and the nation’s religions stretches back thousands of years. While the…
Religion and the environment
Climate change and the environment can be contentious issues, particularly in American politics. Despite political differences, weather events such as…