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JCS Editor • March 13, 2025Special 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, 2025Special 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 7, 2025Special 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… -
JCS Editor • January 19, 2025Book Review
Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review discusses Marcia Falk’s Night of Beginnings, a reimagined Passover Haggadah designed to inspire contemplative practice. Falk combines poetic liturgy, gender-inclusive language, and mystical reflections to offer new interpretations of traditional Jewish texts. She… -
JCS Editor • January 13, 2025Book Review
Review of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review explores how urban green spaces can promote mental well-being through intentional design informed by neuroscience, as discussed by Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo in Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes, published in 2023. The book… -
JCS Editor • January 6, 2025Special Issue Article
Practicing the “Threefold Mystery”: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic
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 • December 30, 2024Special Issue Article
No Attainment, Nothing to Attain: A Buddhist Reflection on Psychedelics
The religious or spiritual value of contemplative practices and the use of psychedelics is not intrinsic to experiences obtained through them and is instead relational—a function of how they alter consciousness. In support of that claim, I first present a… -
JCS Editor • August 15, 2024Special Issue Article
Re-Visioning Ethnography Through Meditative Practice
“Re-Visioning Ethnography Through Meditative Practice: The Proposal for a Contemplative Anthropology and Its Experience through Visual Elicitation Technique” by Federico Divino, Visual and Digital Cultures research center at the University of Antwerp Abstract: This article introduces a novel method presently… -
JCS Editor • May 9, 2024SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE
Hesychasm and Psychedelics
“Hesychasm and Psychedelics: Altered States, Purgation, and the Question of Authentic Mysticism,” by Thomas Cattoi, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to introduce the reader to the tradition of Hesychasm—a form…
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JCS Editor • March 27, 2025ISCR 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, 2025The 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…