Uyghur Histories – By James A. Millward
James Millward on Rian Thum’s The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History Though Western media and political circles still tend to treat Islam in
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Asian Traditions
Holy Ghosts – By Christopher Mayo
Christopher Mayo on Rebecca Suter’s Holy Ghosts Francis Xavier kicked off a “Christian century” when he arrived in Japan in 1549. Over the
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Killable Monks and Socialist Sovereignty – By Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King on Christopher Kaplonski’s The Lama Question In December 1911, Khalkha Mongol Buddhist monks and nobility met in secret to declare
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Telling the Story of Women in Japanese Religions – By Jessica Starling
Jessica Starling on Ambros’s Women in Japanese Religions This spring I was invited to give a talk at a public library in Central
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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens
Sarah Rollens on Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood Recipe for a popular book on religion: one provocative meta-topic (violence is heavily in demand
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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Escaping Colonialism, Rescuing Religion – By Alexandra Kaloyanides
Alexandra Kaloyanides on Alicia Turner’s Saving Buddhism Last spring, I taught a seminar on Buddhism to a group of 16 students at a
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