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    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 • August 29, 2025

    Special Issue Announcement

    Special Issue #08

    The JCS Editors are delighted to announce Special Issue #08: Contemplation in Education and Human Development with guest editors Robert W. Roeser (Emory University), Brendan Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University), Yuki Imoto (Keio University), and Kimberly Schonert-Reichl (University of Illinois, Chicago)….
  • JCS Editor • August 15, 2025

    Contemplation + Leadership

    An Interview With Ian H. Solomon

    JCS: Thanks for joining us for this series called Contemplation Plus. What we’re interested in is contemplation and its myriad of expressions. It’s about contemplation and whatever that means to you at the intersection of an area that is the…
  • JCS Editor • July 31, 2025

    Special Issue Announcement

    Special Issue #7

    The JCS Editors are excited to announce Special Issue #07: Micro-Phenomenology, Heart Openings, and Contemplative Practice with guest editors Christian Suhr and Martijn van Beek. In recent years, micro-phenomenological interviews have been used across a range of disciplines to understand the rich textures of human experience,…
  • JCS Editor • July 15, 2025

    Author Insight

    An Interview With Bin Song

    JCS: What does contemplation look like in Confucianism? BS: First, it’s important to note that the term Confucianism was popularized by nineteenth-century Christian missionaries during Western colonial expansion. In its original language, this tradition has long been called the Ru (儒)…
  • JCS Editor • June 30, 2025

    Call for Book Reviews

    The Journal of Contemplative Studies invites book reviews for the following monographs and edited volumes. Monographs: Edited volumes: The JCS seeks a double review for the following pair of books:  JCS book reviews are long-form, scholarly reviews (1,500–2,500 words) of…
  • JCS Editor • June 5, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Beyond Technical Fixes: Sufism, Contemplation, and Climate Change as Human Predicament

    “Beyond Technical Fixes: Sufism, Contemplation, and Climate Change as Human Predicament” by Muhammad U. Faruque is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: Building on the works of the Sufi philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr and the German sociologist Hartmut…
  • JCS Editor • June 5, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Love’s Deepest Abyss: A Contemplative Ecology of Darkness

    “Love’s Deepest Abyss: A Contemplative Ecology of Darkness” by Douglas E. Christie is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: “Love’s deepest abyss is her most beautiful form,” so claims Hadewijch of Antwerp, the great medieval Flemish mystic. This…
  • JCS Editor • May 29, 2025

    Contemplation + Science

    An Interview With Fadel Zeidan

    JCS: You work at this very interesting intersection between a variety of things: pain management, health, neuroscience, psychedelics research, phantom limb syndrome, but also, contemplation. How did you get to this point? Either in your training, in the research that…
  • JCS Editor • May 15, 2025

    Contemplation + Psychedelics

    An Interview With Stuart Ray Sarbacker

    JCS: How do you bring yogic traditions and psychedelic science together? What brought you to this point? SS: There are a number of different factors. Part of it came out of my own experiments with contemplative practices and with psychedelics,…

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  • JCS Editor • August 29, 2025

    Special Issue Announcement

    Special Issue #08

    The JCS Editors are delighted to announce Special Issue #08: Contemplation in Education and Human Development with guest editors Robert W. Roeser (Emory University), Brendan Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University), Yuki Imoto (Keio University), and Kimberly Schonert-Reichl (University of Illinois, Chicago)….
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • August 15, 2025

    Contemplation + Leadership

    An Interview With Ian H. Solomon

    JCS: Thanks for joining us for this series called Contemplation Plus. What we’re interested in is contemplation and its myriad of expressions. It’s about contemplation and whatever that means to you at the intersection of an area that is the…
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • July 31, 2025

    Special Issue Announcement

    Special Issue #7

    The JCS Editors are excited to announce Special Issue #07: Micro-Phenomenology, Heart Openings, and Contemplative Practice with guest editors Christian Suhr and Martijn van Beek. In recent years, micro-phenomenological interviews have been used across a range of disciplines to understand the rich textures of human experience,…
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • July 15, 2025

    Author Insight

    An Interview With Bin Song

    JCS: What does contemplation look like in Confucianism? BS: First, it’s important to note that the term Confucianism was popularized by nineteenth-century Christian missionaries during Western colonial expansion. In its original language, this tradition has long been called the Ru (儒)…
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • June 30, 2025

    Call for Book Reviews

    The Journal of Contemplative Studies invites book reviews for the following monographs and edited volumes. Monographs: Edited volumes: The JCS seeks a double review for the following pair of books:  JCS book reviews are long-form, scholarly reviews (1,500–2,500 words) of…
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • June 5, 2025

    Special Issue Article

    Beyond Technical Fixes: Sufism, Contemplation, and Climate Change as Human Predicament

    “Beyond Technical Fixes: Sufism, Contemplation, and Climate Change as Human Predicament” by Muhammad U. Faruque is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: Building on the works of the Sufi philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr and the German sociologist Hartmut…
    Read more

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