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DESCRIPTION:Alexander Soucy\,&nbsp\;Associate&nbsp\;Professor at St. Mary's
  University\, Halifax&nbsp\;Zen Conquests: Buddhist Transformations in Con
 temporary VietnamThe\nopening\nup of Vietnam since the 1990s and the accel
 eration of global communication and\ntravel has influenced the practice of
  Buddhism at the local level in Vietnam.\nThe main manifestation can be se
 en in the establishment of large Zen Buddhist\norganizations that are succ
 essfully introducing a radically secular\,\nnationalistic\, and individual
 istic form of Buddhist modernism.&nbsp\; This presentation is based on arc
 hival work\non the Buddhist reform movement in Vietnam and on ethnographic
  material\ngathered from 2005 to the present.Alexander Soucy\nis\nan Assoc
 iate Professor at Saint Mary’s University\, Halifax\, and the chair of\nth
 e Religious Studies Department. He is the author of The Buddha Side: Gende
 r\, Power\, and\nBuddhist Practice in Vietnam (2012).&nbsp\; His current r
 esearch looks at transnational\nVietnamese Buddhism and the rising popular
 ity of Zen in Vietnam.Open to the public.Sponsored by the East Asia Progra
 m at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and the Department of Religi
 on and the Department of Anthropology&nbsp\;  
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SUMMARY:EA presents: Alexander Soucy
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p><b>Alexander Soucy</b>\,&nbsp
 \;<i>Associate&nbsp\;Professor at St. Mary's University\, Halifax&nbsp\;</
 i></p><p><b>Zen Conquests: Buddhist Transformations in Contemporary Vietna
 m</b></p><p>The\nopening\nup of Vietnam since the 1990s and the accelerati
 on of global communication and\ntravel has influenced the practice of Budd
 hism at the local level in Vietnam.\nThe main manifestation can be seen in
  the establishment of large Zen Buddhist\norganizations that are successfu
 lly introducing a radically secular\,\nnationalistic\, and individualistic
  form of Buddhist modernism.&nbsp\; This presentation is based on archival
  work\non the Buddhist reform movement in Vietnam and on ethnographic mate
 rial\ngathered from 2005 to the present.</p><p>Alexander Soucy\nis\nan Ass
 ociate Professor at Saint Mary’s University\, Halifax\, and the chair of\n
 the Religious Studies Department. He is the author of The Buddha Side: Gen
 der\, Power\, and\nBuddhist Practice in Vietnam (2012).&nbsp\; His current
  research looks at transnational\nVietnamese Buddhism and the rising popul
 arity of Zen in Vietnam.</p><p>Open to the public.</p><p><b><i>Sponsored b
 y the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and th
 e Department of Religion and the Department of Anthropology&nbsp\;</i></b>
 </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p>
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