2026-01-19
歐美漢學與佛教研究Sinology and Buddhist Studies
Sinology and Buddhist Studies in the West introduces students to key debates, methods, and emerging perspectives in the Western study of Chinese religions, with a particular emphasis on material culture, ritual practice, and more-than-human approaches. Through a series of lectures by leading scholars—including Stuart Young, Susan Huang, Jason Protass, and Ann Heirman—students will examine how Chinese Buddhist tradition has been interpreted, theorized, and reframed in contemporary scholarship.
The course foregrounds themes that challenge anthropocentric and text-centered paradigms: multispecies relations, the agency of animals and insects, ritual objects and images, book circulation networks, and the lived religious worlds constructed by materiality and visual culture.
By situating these topics within broader trajectories of Western Sinology and Buddhist Studies, the course equips students to understand how the field has evolved, what assumptions have shaped its development, and how new interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches are transforming the study of East Asian religions today.
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Stuart H. Young
Associate Professor of East Asian Religions,
Department of Religious Studies,
Bucknell University
2026/03/09
More-than-human Chinese religions
授課語言:English
Stuart H. Young
Associate Professor of East Asian Religions,
Department of Religious Studies,
Bucknell University
2026/03/10
Silkworm-human relations in Chinese Buddhism
授課語言:English
Stuart H. Young
Associate Professor of East Asian Religions,
Department of Religious Studies,
Bucknell University
2026/03/11
Chinese sericulture religion and the small agencies of silkworms
授課語言:English
Shih-shan Susan Huang
Professor of Transnational Asian Studies,
Rice University
2026/03/16
Materiality and Ritual in Chinese Religions
授課語言:English
Shih-shan Susan Huang
Professor of Transnational Asian Studies,
Rice University
2026/03/17
Buddhist Book Roads
授課語言:English
Shih-shan Susan Huang
Professor of Transnational Asian Studies,
Rice University
2026/03/18
The Most Popular Buddhist Book Circa 1450
授課語言:English
Shih-shan Susan Huang
Professor of Transnational Asian Studies,
Rice University
2026/03/19
Ten Kings of Hell Paintings
授課語言:English
Jason Protass
Associate Professor,
Department of Religious Studies,
Brown University
2026/03/30
Buddhists and their Environments
授課語言:English
Ann Heirman
Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Ghent University
2026/04/01
Animals in daily monastic life: between India and China
授課語言:English