Conversion in Buddhist contexts

A conference convened by the

Centre d’études interdisciplinaires sur le bouddhisme (CEIB)

With support from:

Centre d’études himalayennes (CEH, CNRS)

Groupe de Recherches en Études Indiennes (GREI, EPHE/Paris 3)

Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE, CNRS/EHESS/INALCO)

Salle 100, Centre de colloques, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers – June 17, 2022

 

 

9:15

Welcome and opening words

Panel 1: Defining Conversion

 

9:30

H.l.ne de Brux (Universit. Paris sciences et lettres / Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)

Buddhist conversion in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-Vinaya: between soteriological path and religious rivalry

 

10:30

Adam Yuet Chau (Cambridge University)

When ‘Buddhists’ Convert to ‘Buddhism’: Conversion and Confessionalisation in Contemporary Chinese

Communities

 

11:45

Lionel Obadia (Universit. Lyon 2)

Conversion to Buddhism in the Western context: challenges, tricks, dead-ends of a contested concept

 

12:45

Discussion

Panel 2: Politics of Conversion

 

14:15

Johannes Beltz (Museum Rietberg Zurich, Switzerland)

Conversion to Buddhism: Exploring discursive and ritual practices in contemporary India

 

15:15

Michael Edwards (Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge)

Real Change: Converting Politics in Myanmar

 

16:30

Neena Mahadev (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)

Currents and Counter-currents of Conversion: Buddhist modernism and charismatic Christian ecstaticism

in inter-Asian perspective

 

17:30

Discussion