The Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies will give the “Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies” for the year 2000 to Perry Schmidt-Leukel, University of Muenster.
Due to the current situation of the pandemic, the next conference of the ENBCS will be postponed to 30 June - 4 July 2022. Topic, place and venue remain unchanged. For the updated program see
here.
This year the annual conference of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies will be held online.
The announcement page and link to register may be found here. The sessions will be recorded and will be available for viewing afterward. The event will also be live streamed on the YouTube channel of the Berkley Center Georgetown University.
Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity
Theravāda and Tibetan Perspectives
Douglas Duckworth, Abraham Vélez de Cea, Elizabeth J. Harris (eds.)
Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Theravādin and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism.
Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age.
The Irish School of Ecumenics at the School of Religion in Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the Dublin City Interfaith Forum invites you, whether you belong to a particular faith community or not, to join us in this short reflective encounter. Together in Hope is a joint reflection by a wide range of spiritual practitioners and compiled by Rev. Swami Purnananda.
Martin Rötting gave a short basic religious studies overview of how religions and spiritual resources created for retreat can help in Corona times for forced retreat to deal with the situation. This lecture is not purly academic but ment to help using existing experience of religions and apply it to this situation. This lecture was given on March 15th 2020 for some of Martin Röttings courses at the University of Salzburg.
edited by Elizabeth Harris and John O’Grady
In the last fifty years, Buddhists and Christians have come together in inter-monastic exchange, joint meditation retreats, dialogues concerning the relationship between meditation and social action, cross-tradition pupil/teacher relationships and joint academic explorations into the parallels between Buddhist and Christian spiritual practice. The practice of meditation has been important in all of these encounters and has become one of the most significant ‘grounds for meeting’ within contemporary Buddhist-Christian relationships. This book critically analyses the role in Buddhist-Christian encounter of the variety of practices embraced by the term ‘meditation’.
