Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Ritual and Materiality in Buddhism and Asian Religions: Editorial Note T he articles in this special issue originated in the international conference we organized, 'Ritual and Materiality in Buddhism and Asian Religions', hosted by Princeton University in June 2023.1 The conference was immensely exciting, marking a resumption of in-person academic exchange that had halted owing to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.The gathering brought together nearly fifty participants, including a keynote speaker, two discussants, twenty-one panelists, five Princeton University faculty serving as presiders, and twenty graduate attendees.They hailed from Asia, Europe, and North America.The panelists were selected by an organizing committee from more than one hundred applications; graduate attendees were chosen from almost ninety applicants.Criteria for acceptance 1 Funding for the conference was provided by the Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies, in addition to five institutional sponsors at Princeton University: the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art; the Humanities Council; the East Asian Studies Program; the Center for Culture, Society & Religion (CCSR); and the Department of Religion.The conference was facilitated by the staff of CCSR, including Jennifer Hemingway, Jenny Legath, and Jeff Guest.Princeton Ph.D. students at the time served as organizers and co-conveners: Kentaro Ide, Sinae Kim, and Junbin Tan.The conference would not have been possible without these sponsors and contributors, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to them all.Of the twenty-two presentations made at the conference, ten are represented in this issue, and some are being published elsewhere.Details about all the presentations are available on the conference website (https://ritualmateriality2023.princeton.edu/).
Authors: Stephen F. TEISER, Shih-shan Susan HUANG
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4408226556