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JCS Editor • April 17, 2025
Contemplation + Medicine
An Interview With Pierce Salguero
JCS: I’m really curious how you came to this intersection of Contemplative Studies and Health. You’ve largely been studying Buddhist medicine, is that right? What brought you here? Either professionally, personally, or all of the above. PS: I never felt… -
JCS Editor • April 10, 2025
Special Issue Article
Self-Transformative Research: Effects on Researchers of a Holistic Collaborative Study of Spiritual Exemplars
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
Michael Sheehy • April 3, 2025
What if we learned contemplation like we do arts or sports?
As with football or violin practice, young people could gain versatile life skills through routine contemplative training.
When I was a child, I was introduced to contemplative practices that changed my life. Starting in the fourth grade, I regularly walked to my grandmother’s house after school. I vividly recall walking along the streets of that neighbourhood, watching… -
JCS Editor • March 27, 2025
Call for Submissions
ISCR Conference 2025
Abstracts and Proposals Due April 30th, 2025 The 3rd Conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) will be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from November 3-6, 2025. The ISCR 2025 Conference is… -
Jazlee Crowley, Brenna Rose Prevelige, and Dee Denver • March 20, 2025
The Bodhi Trees of Kaua‘i
Piloting a Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Impacts of an Introduced Sacred Species
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project…. -
JCS Editor • March 13, 2025
Special Issue Article
Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • March 6, 2025
Special Issue Article
Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • February 27, 2025
Contemplation + The Body
An Interview With Donata Schoeller
Donata Schoeller is the co-founder and academic director of the European Erasmus training program Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding (TECTU), and the principal investigator and conceptual director of the international research project “Freedom to make sense: embodied, experiential and mindful… -
Brenna Rose Prevelige, Jazlee Crowley, Dana K. Howe, and Dee Denver • February 13, 2025
Mushrooms in Nepal
Piloting Transdisciplinary Research at the Intersections of Mycology and Buddhist Philosophy
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project….
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JCS Editor • April 17, 2025
Contemplation + Medicine
An Interview With Pierce Salguero
JCS: I’m really curious how you came to this intersection of Contemplative Studies and Health. You’ve largely been studying Buddhist medicine, is that right? What brought you here? Either professionally, personally, or all of the above. PS: I never felt… -
JCS Editor • April 10, 2025
Special Issue Article
Self-Transformative Research: Effects on Researchers of a Holistic Collaborative Study of Spiritual Exemplars
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
Michael Sheehy • April 3, 2025
What if we learned contemplation like we do arts or sports?
As with football or violin practice, young people could gain versatile life skills through routine contemplative training.
When I was a child, I was introduced to contemplative practices that changed my life. Starting in the fourth grade, I regularly walked to my grandmother’s house after school. I vividly recall walking along the streets of that neighbourhood, watching… -
JCS Editor • March 27, 2025
Call for Submissions
ISCR Conference 2025
Abstracts and Proposals Due April 30th, 2025 The 3rd Conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) will be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from November 3-6, 2025. The ISCR 2025 Conference is… -
Jazlee Crowley, Brenna Rose Prevelige, and Dee Denver • March 20, 2025
The Bodhi Trees of Kaua‘i
Piloting a Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Impacts of an Introduced Sacred Species
Transdisciplinarity has emerged as a focal interest in academia over recent years and is conceptualized and applied in many ways. Transdisciplinary approaches aim to dissolve the traditional silos of academic fields, deeply integrating disciplines from the outset of a project…. -
JCS Editor • March 13, 2025
Special Issue Article
Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is…