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JCS Editor • March 7, 2024
What is Contemplation?
Conducted by Erin Burke, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and a Research Assistant at the Journal of Contemplative Studies. JCS: What is contemplation? MVB: In my BA course at Aarhus University on Contemplative Life in Context, in Theory… -
JCS Editor • February 29, 2024
New Special Issue Article
“Portrait of a Poison: Datura in Buddhist Magic,” by Samuel M. Grimes, University of California, Berkeley Abstract: The psychoactive plant Datura metel appears across a range of traditions in premodern South Asia preserved in texts. Among those traditions is the… -
JCS Editor • February 23, 2024
What is Contemplation?
Loriliai Biernacki is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is the author of Renowned Goddess of Desire (2007) and The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta’s Panentheism and New Materialism (2023). She is also co-chair of… -
JCS Editor • February 15, 2024
Call for Papers
This year, the Contemplative Studies Unit especially invites proposals addressing the role of different epistemologies relative to Contemplative Studies, comparative or otherwise. Particularly we are looking for panels and papers on: Chairs Steering Committee Members The deadline for submissions is… -
JCS Editor • February 8, 2024
What is Contemplation?
David McMahan is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College and author of Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practices in Ancient and Modern Worlds (2023) and The Making of Buddhist Modernism (2008). -
JCS Editor • February 1, 2024
FILM ANNOUNCEMENT: Light Upon Light
Announcing a new film in Contemplative Studies: Light Upon Light (2022), Directed by Christian Suhr From the Director For several years, I studied the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. I carried out research on radicalization, integration problems, jinn… -
JCS Editor • January 25, 2024
What is Contemplation?
Douglas Christie is a Professor Emeritus of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University and author of The Blue Saphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Love, Contemplative Practice, and the Common Life. -
JCS Editor • January 18, 2024
Call for Film Reviews
We invite reviews of films in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are an integral part of JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in the field of Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new films, as…