Tag: Contemporary Buddhism

Victoria Montrose

Post author By mheller1
Post date December 19, 2019

My research has been guided by this question: how did Buddhists in Japan respond to the forces of modernization and globalization in the nineteenth century? My current project, “Making the Modern Priest: Clerical Education and Buddhist Universities in Meiji Japan,” explores the central role of a new educational institution, the modern university, in constructing new roles and identities for Buddhist priests.
I have also published research on the development of the Japanese new Buddhist movement, Shinnyo-en, which is best known for their high-profile interfaith rituals held around the globe.

Tags Buddhism, Buddhist modernism, Contemporary Buddhism, Education, Meiji period, New religious movements, Religious education

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Carola Roloff

Post author By mheller1
Post date December 19, 2019

Dr. phil. Carola Roloff (monastic name: Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen) is a visiting professor for “Buddhism in Dialogue with Contemporary Societies” at the Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg (foundation lectureship 2018-2025). 2013-2018 Post-Doc and Senior Research Fellow in the European research project “Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies”. 2012 Forum Humanum visiting professor at the Academy of World Religions, and 2010-2017 Principal Investigator on Buddhist nuns’ ordination in the Tibetan canon (DFG project) at the University of Hamburg. Current research focus: Buddhism and dialogue, contextual dialogical theology, Buddhist nuns’ ordination, and research on gender theories.