sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2013

IASBS Activities at the AAR

Colleagues,

On behalf of the North American District of the International
Association of Shin Buddhist Studies (IASBS), I would like to bring to
your attention the following events at this year's annual meeting of
the American Academy of Religion in Baltimore.

The IASBS was recently granted Related Scholarly Organization status
with the AAR. We hope to use this new status to both help attract
attention to our organization among scholars interested in Pure Land
Buddhist Studies and to expand our organization's research into Pure
Land studies beyond Japan.

To celebrate our new status as RSO, we are hosting a reception on
Saturday, November 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Royal Sonesta
Hotel, Whitehall Ballroom North. Please join us for hors d'oeuvres and
drinks. All are welcome.

Secondly, we will be hosting a panel presentation on Sunday, November
24 at 2 p.m. at the Marriott Inner Harbor, Grand Ballroom West. The
panel, "(Re)imagining the Founder: Shinran in Modern Japanese
History," focuses on modern interpretations of Shinran and includes
the following panelists:

Orion Klautau, University of Heidelberg
A World Unifying Prophet: Shinran and Nationalism in Imperial Japan

Ryan Ward, Meiji University
Shinran and the Fictive Imagination

Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, University of Iowa
For Myself, Shinran Alone: The Separation of Shinran and Shinshū in
Kyoto School Philosophy

Daniel Friedrich, McMaster University
Conjuring the founder: Images of Shinran in Contemporary Shin Buddhist
Practice

Responding:
Makoto Hayashi, Aichi Gakuin University

Please join us for both the reception and panel. See you in Baltimore!

Regards,
Scott Mitchell

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Scott A. Mitchell
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union
Editorial Committee, Pacific World Journal

scott@shin-ibs.edu
www.shin-ibs.edu
scottmitchell.shin-ibs.edu
510-809-1449
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