Eastspirit: Transnational Spirituality and Religious Circulation in East and West

Jørn Borup, Ph.D., is associate professor at Aarhus University. He has conducted research and published in Danish and English on Japanese Buddhism, Buddhism in the West, religious diversity, spirituality, and religion and migration.Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Ph.D., is associate professor at Aarhus University. Her work focuses on Hinduism in general (and in Denmark and in diaspora in particular), Śaktism, religious plurality and diversity, and on religion in cultural encounters.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJørn Borup and Marianne Qvortrup FibigerPart 1: Spiritual Flows and Circulations Between East and West1 Pizza, Curry, Skyr and Whirlpool Effects—Religious Circulations Between East and WestJørn Borup2 Global Flows of Universal Energy? Aquatic Metaphors, Network Theory, and Modeling Reiki’s Development and Circulation in North AmericaJustin Stein3 Mindfulness on the Move: A Translocative Analysis of Global Mindfulness FlowsJeff Wilson4 Sri Mātā Amṛtānandamayī Devī—The Global Worship of an Indian Female GuruMarianne Qvortrup Fibiger5 Same Forms, Same Sensations? The Practice of Silent Sitting in Traditional Japanese and Contemporary Urban SettingsInken Prohl6 ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the Kaleidoscope of Transculturality—The Discursive Production of the Kuṇḍalinī as a New Ontological Object Within and Beyond Orientalist DichotomiesDimitry OkropiridzePart 2: Transnational Spiritualties in Asia7 Global Flows of Vietnamese ZenAlexander Soucy8 Christianity and Positive Psychology—Are ‘Western’ Spiritual Practices Conquering the Chinese Spirit?Gerda Wielander9 The Making of Power Spots: From New Age Spirituality to Shinto SpiritualityNorichika Horie10 The Significance of the Idea of Buddha’s Dependence on Kapila for the Rebirth of Sāṃkhyayoga in Nineteenth Century BengalKnut A. Jacobsen11 On the Road from Hinduism to Buddhism: Global Buddhism, the Conversion of Nepali Hindus, and What Comes BetweenCameron David Warner12 Young Buddhism: Analyzing Transnational Currents of Religion Among Ladakhi Buddhist Youth in IndiaElizabeth Lane Williams Ørberg13 Religious Encounters in Thailand: International Meditation Centers Within Transnational SettingsBrooke Schedneck14 Finding It: Echoes of America in Taiwan’s New AgePaul J. FarrellyIndex

"Un livre intéressant, qui suscite des questions en ouvrant d’autres pistes de recherche." - Enzo Pace, in: de sciences Sociales des religions October-December 2019