HeyJaredThe Classical Ideas Podcast
Simply stated, religion matters. Religion matters not only for personal reasons, but also for social, economic, political, and military purposes.
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EP 359: Longchengpa and Lineage Prayers w/Dr. Renée Ford (opens the original)
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Renée Ford, Ph.D. is a Lab Coordinator at the Contemplative Sciences Center, providing support for contemplative research at the CIRCL Lab . Renée's keen interest in understanding lived experiences in various contexts is a key motivation to her engagement here. She is trained in microphenomenology interviews, a type of interview that focuses on a short moment of experience and interested to apply this method in ongoing research studies. Renée completed her Ph.D. at Rice University in religious s
EP 358: Buddhist Military Chaplaincy in Korea w/Dr. Jonathan C. Feuer (opens the original)
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Jonathan Feuer earned his Ph.D in Asian Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2023. His current book project is entitled Buddhist Militarism, Violence, and Religious Freedom: The South Korean Buddhist Military Chaplaincy and his research interests include Buddhist modernity, South Korean history, and religion and violence. On this episode, we discuss Buddhist military chaplaincy in detail and preview what readers can expect with his forthcoming book! You can find his work at https://jonathancfeuer
EP 357: Khemethaka Nunnery, Daw Gunawati, and pāramī w/Dr. M.K. Long (opens the original)
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MK Long is a historian and ethnographer of Buddhism and gender. Her current project highlights vernacular auto/biographical writings of Buddhist women in Myanmar, examining their rhetorical strategies of self-presentation and how they theorize Buddhist authority, temporality, and belonging. Long's study of vernacular literature of the 1980s-90s foregrounds its conditions of production, not only its relationship to Buddhist biographical and narrative traditions, but also authoritarian censorship,
EP 356: Buddhism and Experimental Music w/Dr. Julian Butterfield (opens the original)
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Julian Butterfield is a scholar of medieval Chinese Buddhist literature with a special interest in how Mahāyāna Buddhist narratives depict and solicit feeling. His current monograph project recovers the aesthetic and affective dimensions of Lotus Sūtra devotion in fifth-to-eighth-century China, arguing that the transmission of this pivotal Buddhist scripture relied heavily on the cultivation of strong emotions among practitioners. A secondary, public-facing research project investigates the inte
EP 355: Buddhist Charities in Urban Vietnam w/Dr. Sara Swenson (opens the original)
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Sara Swenson works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. Her current research explores how grassroots charity volunteers in Vietnam adapt Buddhist values and practices to navigate ethical struggles amid rapid urbanization and she is the author of "Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charities in Urban Vietnam" from Oxford University Press! Visit Sara Swenson online: https://saswenson.com/about/ Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/
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