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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF BUDDHISM AND THE BUDDHISM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: CROSSING THE BORDERS BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE
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Reviewed By: Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Wednesday, November 14, 2012: 2:00 PM-5:45 PM

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students
Organizers:  Leslie E. Sponsel (University of Hawai`i)
Chairs:  Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel (Chaminade University and Research Institute of Spiritual Ecology)
Discussants:  Charlene E. Makley (Reed College) and Leslie E. Sponsel (University of Hawai`i)
2:00 PM
Experimental Buddhism: Toward An Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhisms via Method, Agency, and a Reflexive Self
John K Nelson (Univ. of San Francisco)
2:15 PM
Reconceptualizing "Modern" Buddhism: Ritual and Rationality In Transnational Tibetan Religion
Abraham Zablocki (Agnes Scott College)
2:30 PM
Mongol Buddhism Through the Prism of Mongol Shamanism
Simon Wickhamsmith (University of Washington)
2:45 PM
Reciprocity and Non-Reciprocity: The Buddha's Reluctance and Monastic Transactions with Society
Hiroko Kawanami (Lancaster University)
3:00 PM
Between Materiality and Sensibility: A Sensory Ethnography of Buddhist Media
Robert Y. Chang (New York University)
3:15 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Environmental Anthropology/Environmental Buddhism: A Story of Dependent Co-Arising
Susan M Darlington (Hampshire College and Hampshire College)
3:45 PM
A Buddhist Anthropology of Sacred Landscapes
Will Tuladhar-Douglas (University of Aberdeen)
4:00 PM
Buddhism and Anthropology of Disaster
Monica Lindberg Falk (Lund University)
4:15 PM
Borrowing Buddhism: Taking Madhyamika Seriously As Social Theory
Jessica M Falcone (Kansas State University)
4:30 PM
Secular Enlightenment: Exploring the Creative Space Between Science & Religion
Louise Gratton-Fabbri (Arizona State University)
4:45 PM
“Towards An Engaged Anthropology: What Socially Engaged Buddhism Can Teach Us”
Maia Duerr (Five Directions Consulting)
5:00 PM
Discussant
Charlene E. Makley (Reed College)
5:15 PM
Discussant
Leslie E. Sponsel (University of Hawai`i)
5:30 PM
Discussion
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