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    6/24/2017 |DepartmentofReligiousStudies

    DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

    Faculty
    AHMED H. AL-RAHIM

    ELIZABETH SHANKS ALEXANDER

    MICHAEL ALLEN

    JESSICA ANDRUSS

    ASHER D. BIEMANN

    LARRY BOUCHARD

    ERIK BRAUN

    KATHLEEN FLAKE

    NICHOLE M. FLORES

    JENNIFER L. GEDDES

    DAVID GERMANO

    GREG SCHMIDT GOERING

    MARK HADLEY

    MARTIEN HALVORSON-TAYLOR

    KEVIN HART

    MATTHEW HEDSTROM

    NATASHA HELLER

    CYNTHIA HOEHLER-FATTON

    WILLIS JENKINS

    PAUL DAFYDD JONES

    SONAM KACHRU

    CHARLES MARSH

    CHARLES MATHEWES

    SHANKAR NAIR

    JOHN NEMEC

    PETER OCHS

    VANESSA OCHS

    JOHN E. PORTMANN

    KURTIS R. SCHAEFFER

    JALANE SCHMIDT

    KARL SHUVE

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    6/24/2017 |DepartmentofReligiousStudies
    JANET SPITTLER

    HEATHER WARREN
    Erik Braun
    Associate Professor

    Gibson Hall, S-436


    434-924-0846
    Email

    Education
    BA, University of Georgia

    PhD in Religious Studies, Committee for the Study of Religion at HarvardUniversity

    Research Interests
    My main area of study is Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhism. I have been especially interested in Burmese traditions of meditation and, following from that, in
    thetransformations of meditative practices (and the understandings of reality they conveyexplicitly and implicitly) as they spread around the world. My rst book, The
    Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw (Chicago, 2013), explores the origins of mass insight meditation inBurma in
    the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was a winner of theToshihide Numata book prize in Buddhism in 2014.Currently, I am at work on a
    bookproject, tentatively titled A Great Awakening, that explores the role of insight practice incontemporary reformulations of notions about the self and society
    within the globalizedinsight meditation scene. I am also co-editing a volume with David McMahan, nowunder contract with Oxford University Press, that explores
    meditation and science fromthe perspective of humanistic scholarship.

    Teaching
    Early Buddhism

    The historical development of Buddhist meditation traditions

    South and Southeast Asian Buddhisms

    Theravada Buddhism, particularly the Buddhist traditions of Myanmar

    Buddhism and the modern world

    Buddhism in America

    Selected Publications
    Buddhist Studies and the Scientic Study of Meditation. Co-ed. with David McMahan (under contract).
    The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Winner of a 2014
    Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism from the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

    Mindful but not Religious: Science and Naturalized Enchantment in the Work of Jon Kabat-Zinn. In Buddhist Studies and the Scientic Study of Meditation, ed.
    by David McMahan and Erik Braun (under contract).

    The Great War of the Commentaries: The Abhidhamma and Social Change in Colonial Burma. History of Religions 55.1 (Aug 2015): 140.

    The United States of Jh?na: Varieties of Modern Buddhism in America. In Buddhism beyond Borders, ed. by Scott Mitchell and Natalie Quli. Albany, NY: State
    University of New York Press, 2015. 163180.

    Meditation En Masse: A Genealogy of Insight Meditation. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Spring 2014). 5661, 105.

    Local and Translocal in the Study of Theravada Buddhism and Modernity. Religion Compass 3 (2009): 116.

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