After completing a BA and MA in Religion and Culture at the University of Saskatchewan, I travelled to southern Ontario, where I completed my PhD in Religious Studies, focusing on Chinese religions and Buddhism under James Benn at McMaster University. During this time, I also spent a year and a half studying Chinese Buddhism with Dr. Funayama Toru at Kyoto University. My dissertation research focused on dreams in Chinese Buddhist hagiographies (specifically, the sixth-century Biographies of Eminent Monks and the seventh-century Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks). I have been teaching at Carleton since January of 2018.
\nWhile it is a relatively new interest for me, I have \u2013 to date \u2013 been involved with two student MA projects here at Carleton on the topic of Buddhist meditation and mindfulness in contemporary North America. In the coming years, I would be delighted to work with other students who would like to explore this fascinating topic.<\/p>\n
The role of dreams in religious culture(s)
\nHagiography and religious storytelling
\nReligion as an embodied phenomenon (e.g., understandings of childhood, bodily impairment)
\nBuddhist modernism in North America<\/p>\n
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Christopher Jensen. \u201cRhetorical Uses of the Exemplary Child Trope in the Biographies of Eminent Monks and Biographies of Nuns.\u201d Studies in Chinese Religions 7:1 (2021). 1-49.<\/p>\n
Christopher Jensen. \u201cMapping Religious Practice in the Eminent Monks: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections\u201d in Buddhism and Digital Humanities. Edited by Daniel Veidlinger. Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 159\u2013181.<\/p>\n
Christopher Jensen. \u201cPerspectives on Blindness, Deafness and Muteness in the Chinese Eminent Monks Literature: The \u2018Eight Difficulties\u2019 in Context\u201d in Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages: Illuminating Disability in Medieval Hagiography. Edited by Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Pope Parker, and Alicia Spencer-Hall. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 202X. (In progress)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[5,13],"yoast_head":"\n