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Juliane Schober
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Juliane Schober is the director of the Center for
Asian Research and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
As an anthropologist of religion, she works on Theravada Buddhist practices in
Southeast Asia, especially Burma/Myanmar. She is the founder of the Theravada
Studies Group, an academic organization affiliated with the Association for
Asian Studies to promote comparative and scholarly exchanges in the social sciences
and humanities about Theravada Buddhist traditions in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southwest China and globally
though pilgrimage and diaspora networks. Previously, she served as principal investigator on Title VI grants for a National Resource Center on Southeast
Asia and FLAS Fellowships. She is the author of Modern Buddhist Conjunctures
in Myanmar: Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies and Civil Society
(2011). She co-edited Buddhist Manuscript Cultures (2008)
and edited Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and
Southeast Asia (1997).
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