Description
How do contemporary Buddhists engage with and reinterpret diverse healing practices, including elements of spirit religion? How are Buddhist healing practices shaped by modern anxieties and the conditions of neoliberalism? How do encounters with other contemporary healing movements—such as Pentecostalist forms of healing—influence Buddhist approaches to well-being today? What do these healing practices reveal about contemporary Buddhist life and religious adaptation in the modern world?
Symposium Schedule
10:00 am: Presentations
Geethika Dharmasinghe, University of Toronto
Discussant: Simon Coleman, University of Toronto
Pierce Salguero, Abington College, Penn State University
Julia Cassaniti, University of Virginia
2:00 pm: Roundtable
Mitra Barua, Martin Luther University College
Michael Edwards, University of Cambridge
Htet Min Lwin, York University
Matt Walton, University of Toronto
Geethika Dharmasinghe, University of Toronto
Pierce Salguero, Abington College, Penn State University
Julia Cassaniti, University of Virginia
Moderators: Frances Garrett and Rory Lindsay, University of Toronto
Symposiarch: Geethika Dharmasinghe, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Registration
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