Fw: [AASTibet] IATS 2013 panel: Nomads' religious lives

 

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Subject: [AASTibet] IATS 2013 panel: Nomads' religious lives

Dear all,

Please find enclosed further information on our panel exploring religious practices in everyday life among nomadic pastoralists in Tibet and neighbouring regions. We welcome participation from anyone on this list, please get in touch if you would like to join us.

Thank you and best wishes,

Nicola Schneider and Gillian G. Tan

Nomads' religious lives

 

This panel examines the various ways that contemporary nomads in Tibet and adjacent communities from Mongolia, Nepal and Ladakh practice everyday religion, including daily ritual practices, the observance of communal festivities and events in the life-cycle, such as coming-of-age, marriages and funerals. Referring to works by Ekvall (1964, 1968) and Norbu (1997 [1959]), as well as to works on nomads in other Inner Asian societies (Humphrey and Sneath 1999), we find that religious practices play an important role in the social relations of nomad communities, in nomads' relationships with animals (curing of disease, protecting animal life, etc.) and in their interactions with the physical environment (mountains, lakes, etc.).

We invite papers that offer insight into these concerns among nomads that are still moving as well as those that have been recently settled. Do physical movements influence how nomads deal with metaphysical concerns? In what ways do religious beliefs influence nomads' attitude to nature and environment? Further, what are the implications of nomadic movements to their participation in religious communities, that is, how do nomads create and maintain religious ties? Who are the religious specialists acting among nomadic communities and by what means are they transmitting knowledge and teachings of Buddhism or Bon religion? Particular attention will also be given to the religious revival that occurred in Tibet in the Post-Mao period asking, for example, if distinct features can be observed among nomadic communities in Tibet when compared to agricultural communities or nomads from other Tibetan speaking areas, such as Nepal and Ladakh.

This panel seeks to contribute to a better comprehension of religious life in contemporary nomadic communities. We welcome contributions that ally research on nomadic communities, traditional as well as those recently settled, and religious life. 

Fw: H-ASIA: TOC Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Vol. 25 (2012)

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> H-ASIA
> November 29, 2012
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> Table of contents: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies Volume 25 (2012)
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> From: "Bauman, Chad" <cbauman@butler.edu>
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> The new issue of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies is now available
> in print and online at
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> Chad Bauman (Butler University)
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> Volume 25 (2012)
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> Editor's Introduction
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> Bradley Malkovsky
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>
> The Malleability of Yoga: A Response to Christian and Hindu Opponents
> of the Popularization of Yoga
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/4>
> Andrea R. Jain
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>
> Vijnanabhikshu's Approach to the Isvara Concept in Patanjali's Yogasatras
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/5>
> T. S. Rukmani
>
> Yoga's 'A-Theistic'-Theism: A New Way of Thinking About God
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/6>
> Gerald J. Larson
>
>
> Toward a Fusion of Theological Horizons: Constructivist Reflections and
> Responses to the Question of Theism in the Yoga Sutra
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/7>
> Graham M. Schweig
>
>
> 'Where did you hide'? Locating the divine in the Cantico espiritual and
> Rasa Lal <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/8>
> Gloria M. Hernandez
>
>
> Christology after Dominus Iesus: the Early Panikkar As a Creative Resource
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/9>
> Erik Ranstrom
>
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> Viewpoint: Reflections on Ludic Dimensions in Hindu-Christian Scholarship
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/10>
> Kenneth R. Valpey
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> Reports and News <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/11>
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> Announcement: Best Book in Hindu-Christian
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> Book Review: "Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problems, Paradigms and
> Possibilities" by Peniel Rajkumar
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/13>
> Sathianathan Clarke
>
> A Collection of Book Reviews
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/14>
> Edward Ulrich
>
> Book Review: "Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative
> Religion," Corinne G. Dempsey
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/15>
> Chad Bauman
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> Book Review: "Ramanuja
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> and Schleiermacher: Toward a Constructive Comparative Theology,"
> Jon Paul Sydnor <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/16>
> Sucharita Adluri
>
> Book Review: "Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl
> Rahner <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/17>,
> Karl Barth and Vedanta Desika
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/17>,"
> John N. Sheveland <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/17>
> Reid B. Locklin
>
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> Book Review: "Baby Krishna, Infant Christ," Kristin Johnston Largen
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/18>
> Arun W. Jones
>
> Book Review: "Liturgy of Liberation: A Christian Commentary on Shankara's
> Upadesasahasri
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/19>," Reid B. Locklin
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/19>
> Anantanand Rambachan
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> Book Review: "Oxford Bibliographies: Hinduism and Christianity"
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> Christopher R. Conway
>
> Book Review: "Brahman and Person: Essays by Richard De Smet
> <http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/21>
> Bradley Malkovsky
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> Recent Articles of Interest 2012
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Fw: The Long Littoral Project: Bay of Bengal - Academia.edu

 

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Top papers from your news feed from the last week The Long Littoral Project: Bay of Bengal by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) "This report addresses the major security issues associated with the Bay of Bengal. In this 838,600 square mile area, security threats to numerous countries, including the United States, range from disputes over exclusive economic zones to terrorism, piracy, poaching, overfishing, and trafficking of humans, arms, and narcotics. A review of the full spectrum of threats in the Bay of Bengal reveals two dominant security challenges: nascent China-India competition and the likelihood of a natural disaster. This report explores these issues in order to assess U.S. policy options for addressing... Keynote address at the South Asia Maritime Security Conference: "The Indian Ocean's Importance in the 21st Century" by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) Q&A: Understanding the Sri Lanka-China-India Triangle by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) Texts and Textures of Early Japanese Buddhism: Female Patrons, Lay Scribes, and Buddhist Scripture in Eighth-Century Japan by Bryan Lowe (Vanderbilt University) The Discipline of Writing: Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan by Bryan Lowe (Vanderbilt University) This article focuses on ritualized scribal practices in eighth-century Japan. It uses colophons, scriptorium documents, and narrative tales to explore how sutra copyists upheld vegetarian diets, performed ablutions, wore ritual gar- ments, and avoided contact with pollutants stemming from death and illness. Such practices, often described in terms of purity, spread widely on the Asian continent in the seventh century and reached Japan by the eighth century. This article argues that upholding purity was deeply connected to notions of ritual efficacy but also enabled pious lay scribes to... Review of The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2012. by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses)

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Fw: H-ASIA: Mark Turin on language diversity, endangerment and policy on BBC Radio 4

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Subject: H-ASIA: Mark Turin on language diversity, endangerment and policy
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> November 29, 2012
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> Mark Turin on language diversity, endangerment and policy on BBC Radio 4
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> From: "Gerald Roche" <gjroche@gmail.com>
>
> With apologies for cross-posting.
>
> I thought that you might be interested to know about a three-part series
> that Mark Turin is presenting on BBC Radio 4 on themes of language
> diversity, endangerment and policy that starts next week.
>
> The first episode, recorded in Nepal over the summer, airs from
> 11:00-11:30am GMT on Monday, 3 December, 2012. Alongside analogue and
> digital radio transmission in the UK, the programme will be streamed live
> online:
>
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/>.
>
> The series has its own set of web pages on the BBC site:
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6zpl>
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> Best,
> Gerald Roche
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