Religious Studies

Outcomes include a suite of new practices, an open access Generative Contemplation Toolkit, and launch of the Contemplative Design Lab at UVA.

What can Gandhian ideas offer to a world caught in ever-expanding environmental crises?

This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan.

This CGII Center Grant supports the next phase of targeted field research in the South Asian nation of Bhutan.

The Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum in Hong Kong, which opened in 2019, is one of the world’s largest Buddhist mega-projects with a state-of-the-art museum underneath a colossal Guanyin statue.

This symposium focuses on exploring and celebrating the recent emergence of Tibetan female writers in their Himalayan homelands and in the broader global diaspora.

This ethnographic research investigates the contexts associated with Buddhist practices and how people incorporate traditional understandings of religious practices with innovative approaches to contemporary meditation in a living Buddhist society.

My research focuses of Sufism, which has conceptualized as ‘heterodox’ or ‘unorthodox’ by certain Muslim reformers and Orientalist scholars.

Coastal Futures Conservatory integrates arts and humanities into UVa’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) at the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR).

My project analyzes the spectacular return of the sacred to post-Soviet Russian public sphere following seventy years of forced secularization.