Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: the laity

Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS, a series of day-long thematic workshops in the comparative anthropology of Buddhism is held in Paris over a period of two years (2013-14 and 2014-15), on the general theme of “Buddhist religious fields”.

This year’s third workshop will be held on Friday, 22 May 2015.
Its theme is:

The laity in contemporary Buddhist religious fields:
categories, actors, roles.

Please find the short program below, and the complete program, with abstracts and bibliographical suggestions, here.

All interested scholars and students are most welcome to join us.
Please contact: Nicolas Sihlé (nsihle [at] vjf.cnrs.fr).

 
Past and future sessions of these workshops:
2012-13:

• The place of teachings in processes of transmission and conversion.
• Variations on the Buddhist gift.
• Buddhism and the State.

2013-14 (1st year of the “Buddhist religious fields” cycle):

• Monasticism.
• Non-monastic Buddhist specialists.
• Possession specialists.

2014-15 (2nd year of the “Buddhist religious fields” cycle):

• Buddhism and the spirit cults revisited.
• Gender and Buddhist religious fields.
• The laity in contemporary Buddhist religious fields: categories, actors, roles.