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    Contemplative Currents is an online magazine for public scholarship that advances contemplative knowing, practicing, and living.

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  • Veronica • June 16, 2025

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  • Veronica • June 3, 2025

    Do footnotes work? Do they really?
  • JCS Editor • March 27, 2025

    ISCR Conference 2025

    Call for Submissions

    Submissions Due April 30th, 2025 The third annual conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) will be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from November 3-6, 2025. The ISCR 2025 is an international…
  • Jazlee Crowley, Brenna Rose Prevelige, and Dee Denver • March 20, 2025

    The Bodhi Trees of Kaua‘i

    Piloting a Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Impacts of an Introduced Sacred Species

    We launched a transdisciplinary project focusing on Bodhi trees (Ficus religiosa) inhabiting the island of Kaua‘i that integrated biological and Buddhist-contemplative approaches in partnership with a local Soto Zen Buddhist community.
  • JCS Editor • March 13, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief

    After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…
  • JCS Editor • March 6, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice

    After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…
  • JCS Editor • February 27, 2025

    Contemplation + The Body

    An Interview With Donata Schoeller

    Donata Schoeller is the co-founder and academic director of the European Erasmus training program Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding (TECTU), and the principal investigator and conceptual director of the international research project “Freedom to make sense: embodied, experiential and mindful…
  • Brenna Rose Prevelige, Jazlee Crowley, Dana K. Howe, and Dee Denver • February 13, 2025

    Mushrooms in Nepal 

    Piloting Transdisciplinary Research at the Intersections of Mycology and Buddhist Philosophy

    Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project….
  • JCS Editor • February 7, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements

    After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…

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  • Veronica • June 16, 2025

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  • Veronica • June 3, 2025

    Do footnotes work? Do they really?
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  • JCS Editor • March 27, 2025

    ISCR Conference 2025

    Call for Submissions

    Submissions Due April 30th, 2025 The third annual conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) will be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from November 3-6, 2025. The ISCR 2025 is an international…
    Read more
  • Jazlee Crowley, Brenna Rose Prevelige, and Dee Denver • March 20, 2025

    The Bodhi Trees of Kaua‘i

    Piloting a Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Impacts of an Introduced Sacred Species

    We launched a transdisciplinary project focusing on Bodhi trees (Ficus religiosa) inhabiting the island of Kaua‘i that integrated biological and Buddhist-contemplative approaches in partnership with a local Soto Zen Buddhist community.
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • March 13, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief

    After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • March 6, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice

    After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…
    Read more

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