Contemplative Currents

    Contemplative Currents is an online magazine for public scholarship that advances contemplative knowing, practicing, and living.

    Contemplation +

    is an ongoing series of dialogues that explores intersections of contemplation with diverse topics.

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    What is Contemplation?

    is a series that interviews leading scholars in Contemplative Studies to address this driving question.

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  • JCS Editor • January 18, 2024

    Call for Film Reviews

    We invite reviews of films in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are an integral part of JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in the field of Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new films, as…
  • JCS Editor • December 21, 2023

    Book Review

    The Oxford Handbook of Meditation

    Read the new Review of The Oxford Handbook of Meditation (2019), edited by Miguel Farias, David Brazier, and Mansur Lalljee. Reviewed by Stephen Dawson (University of Lynchburg).  This review examines this expansive and valuable recently edited volume on the study…
  • JCS Editor • December 14, 2023

    Call for Book Reviews

    We invite reviews of books in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are an integral part of JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in the field of Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new publications, as…
  • JCS Editor • October 19, 2023

    Book Review

    Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

    Read the new Review of the Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (2023). Edited by Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O’Brien-Kop. Reviewed by Alan Brill (Seton Hall University). This review discusses a helpful edited volume featuring recent scholarship on yoga…
  • JCS Editor • June 14, 2023

    Call for Book Reviews

    We invite reviews of books in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are integral to JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new publications as well as foundational works of…
  • JCS Editor • May 18, 2023

    Book Review

    The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation

    Read the new Review of the Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation (2022). Edited by Rick Repetti. Reviewed by Francisco Figueroa Medina (Kyoto University). The review outlines the contributions of this important edited volume on recent scholarship about the…
  • JCS Editor • April 30, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview With Eve Ekman

    I discovered that the mere reflection upon our emotions was an intervention towards well-being.
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  • JCS Editor • April 16, 2026

    Contemplation + Indigeneity

    An Interview With Lance Henson

    Contemplation for me involves being in touch with not just the world, but all of the worlds—the dream and the spiritual worlds—and understanding your place within them. 
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  • JCS Editor • March 27, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview With Adam Lobel

    As far as there being categories of East and West, of philosophy versus spirituality or religion, I can’t even draw the boundaries anymore. 
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  • JCS Editor • March 19, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview With James Gentry

    The mind-body binary, the nature-culture binary […] these kinds of dichotomies undergird a lot of the problems that we face as a global society in terms of the eco-crisis.
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  • JCS Editor • February 26, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with Andrew Holecek

    There are a number of things that darkness invites—interiority, depth, authenticity—that artificial intelligence can’t approximate.
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  • JCS Editor • February 20, 2026

    ISCR 2025 Contemplative Studies Update

    The phenomena we study tend not to present a linear arc from life to death but a cyclical co-emergence of decomposition and re-emergence. 
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