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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">You are invited to this seminar convened by the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University. More details below and attached. Please circulate widely.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Cristina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Critical, Contextual, and Collective Turns<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#212121">5 November 2018</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#212121">Parramatta South Campus, PS-EA.1.04</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#212121">10:30-12:00 </span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#212121">Speaker: Associate Prof Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida)</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">This paper explores the ways in which whiteness has functioned in the construction of Buddhist modernism in North America. Drawing on ethnography and textual analysis, it outlines key attempts by
Buddhists of Color, and their white allies, to expose and overcome such whiteness before turning to a detailed examination of the pioneering work of Zenju Earthlyn Manuel from the Soto Zen lineage and Larry Yang from the Insight Community to forge an alternative
Buddhist hermeneutics of multiculturalism and difference. In conclusion, it situates their work as reflecting critical, collective, and contextual turns in North American Buddhism that signify a wider shift from Buddhist modernism to Buddhism in a postmodern
and post-colonial climate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Ann Gleig</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121"> is an Associate Professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. Her area of specialization is Buddhism
in America and her forthcoming monograph <i>American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity</i> will be published by Yale University Press in February 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">RSVP: 29 October 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Alan Nixon: <a href="mailto:a.nixon@westernsydney.edu.au">
a.nixon@westernsydney.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Associate Professor Cristina Rocha|ARC Future Fellow</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">President:
<a href="https://www.aasr.org.au/"><span style="color:blue">Australian Association for the Study of Religion</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Editor: <i><a href="http://www.globalbuddhism.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Journal of Global Buddhism</span></a></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Editor: <a href="http://www.brill.com/publications/religion-americas-series"><span style="color:blue">Religion in the Americas series, Brill </span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">New book: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/john-of-god-9780190466718?q=rocha&lang=en&cc=us"><span style="color:blue">John of God: The Globalization
of Brazilian Faith Healing</span></a> (OUP, 2017)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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