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JCS Editor • February 27, 2025Contemplation + 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… -
JCS Editor • January 30, 2025Contemplation + Nature
An Interview With Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo is the president and founder of NeuroLandscape and editor in chief of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health. She is the author of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes (2023). -
JCS Editor • December 20, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview with Michael Sheehy
Michael Sheehy is Research Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Contemplative Sciences Center at University of Virginia where he is Principal at CIRCL Contemplative Innovation + Research Co-Lab and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemplative Studies. -
JCS Editor • December 6, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview With Oludamini Ogunnaike
Oludamini Ogunnaike is an Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020) and Poetry in… -
JCS Editor • November 21, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview With Yuria Celidwen
Conducted by Devin Zuckerman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Contemplative Sciences Center. JCS: So, let’s begin with the first question: What is contemplation? YC: I come from a village called El Paraíso Coelhá, which translates to “the wonderlands of… -
JCS Editor • November 8, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview with Sonam Kachru
Sonam Kachru is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Yale University, specializing in the history of premodern South Asian philosophy and literature, with an emphasis on Buddhist philosophy. He is the author of Other Lives: Mind and World… -
JCS Editor • October 24, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview With Tanya Luhrmann
Tanya Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, sometimes with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. She is the author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (2012) and How God… -
JCS Editor • October 10, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview with Marc-Henri Deroche
Marc-Henri Deroche is Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan, where he teaches Buddhist and Tibetan Studies and researches mindfulness in Buddhist philosophy, theories, and manuals of meditation. He is the author of A Tibetan Quest for Wisdom: Prajñāraśmi (1518–1584) and…
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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, 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…