The study of religion represents an essential ingredient of a liberal arts education by encouraging sustained reflection on what it is to be human. 这样做的时候, we seek to combine critical analysis with sympathetic imagination, allowing us to understand more fully not only the ‘data’ of vast, 多元而有影响力的宗教传统, 还有维护它们的人类.
走向这些终点, our field utilizes a tremendous breadth of conceptual tools to foster understanding of religion in all its richness, 从人类学中提取, 考古学, 历史, 文学, 心理学, 哲学, 政治, 社会学和神学. Our course offerings reflect an abiding commitment to the study of the traditions that have indelibly shaped our own society, as well as an active engagement with a broad range of the world’s religions that presently constitute our global environment. 在亨德里克斯, students pursue their interests in religion through varied activities including: textual studies, 现场工作, 国际旅行, 一对一访谈, 电影研究, 艺术项目和服务学习.
学生 of religion think deeply about matters of the utmost concern, 包括人生的目的, 现实的本质, 以及信誉的电子游戏平台官网与他人的关系. They develop skills of careful reading and clear writing as they wrestle with these fundamental questions, as well as a greater appreciation of their own assumptions, 尊重他人, and a firm basis for constructively contributing to solutions for the problems of our time.
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Hendrix Professor Gorvine Receives Fulbright U.S. 学者格兰特
康威,柜. (February 17, 2020) — 亨德里克斯学院 Associate Professor of Religious Studies Dr. 威廉·米. Gorvine has been selected as a 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. 学者. He will use the funding to explore the relationship between traditional Buddhist practices and secular training in mindfulness and compassion.
Gorvine’s project will have him spending several months in India, working with Tibetan monastic 学者 at Menri Monastery, w在这里 he has maintained connections with the community of monks for the past two decades.
“They were important contributors to the book project, 我很高兴能再次与他们合作,他说. 他2019年出版的书， Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary: The Life of a Modern Bönpo Saint (牛津大学出版社), is based on fieldwork conducted in eastern Tibet and within the Bön exile community in India.
Since his time as a Fulbright 学者 in India while a graduate student at the University of Virginia, when he also took an immersive pre-dissertation trip to Tibet, Gorvine has studied the living Tibetan minority tradition of Bön and its influence on broader contemplative practices. 对于这个项目, he will examine key works that provide instruction and advice on contemplative practices that correspond to popular forms of secular mindfulness and compassion training. He will explore how certain traditional Tibetan materials connected with current contemplative approaches have the potential to contribute to and complicate practitioners’ understanding of their everyday endeavors.
Gorvine plans for this project to culminate in a new book that will highlight the ongoing influence of writer and 教er Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934). The project will also involve Tibetan language work and original translation—meaning it will make some works available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The project will explore how Tibetan texts influence contemporary mindfulness discourse, and how they prove meaningful or effective in Tibetan cultural contexts, while considering how shifting contexts and interpretations have a bearing on their use in other settings, such as the contemporary mindfulness movement.
“I hope this project will provide a course correction of sorts—a reminder that mindfulness practices have origins outside of the social sciences, which is w在这里 secular culture often places them,戈文说.
富布赖特项目是美国的一个项目.S. 政府ernment’s flagship international educational exchange program, designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as record of service and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. 国会到美国.S. 国务院. Participating 政府ernments and host institutions, 公司, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. 参议员J. 来自阿肯色州的威廉·富布赖特, the Fulbright Program has given more than 390,000名学生, 学者, 老师, 艺术家, and professionals of all backgrounds and fields the opportunity to study, 教, 进行研究, 交流思想, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. 国务院，访问 http://eca.state.gov/fulbright or contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office at 202-632-6452 or ECA-Press@状态.政府.
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