http://www.aarweb.org/Programs/Grants/research/2007-2008winners.asp

2007-2008 Research Grant Winners

Collaborative

Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa
Heart (Transplant) and Soul: How Movies Mediate Meaning

Collaborator: Sam Shemie, University of Ottawa

Individual

Julius Bailey, University of Redlands
Making a Homeland: Race, Religion, and the Meaning of Africa in the Nineteenth-Century African Methodist Episcopal Church

Jennifer Eichman, Seton Hall University
Buddhist-Inspired Contemporary Art: Zhu Ming and His Network

William P. Harman, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Suicide Bombers Become Goddesses: Women, Apotheosis, and Sacrificial Violence in South Asia

Steven Heine, Florida International University
Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods

Jennifer G. Jesse, Truman State University
There's a Methodism to His Madness: William Blake as a Religious Moderate

Greg Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder
Religion in the Moment: Contemporary Lives of Indigenous Traditions

Frank J. Korom, Boston University
From Guru to Shaykh: Bawa Muhaiyyaddeen and the Making of Transnational Sufi "Family"

Leela Prasad, Duke University
Annotating Pastimes: Oral Narrative and Religion in Colonial India

Miranda Eberle Shaw, University of Richmond
Buddhist Goddesses of Tibet and Nepal: Final Phase of Fieldwork

Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College
Recollecting Minling Thrichen Rinpoche's Vision: The History and Contemporary Lived Experience of a Seventeenth-Century Mindroling Monastery and Its Holy Landscape in Central Bhutan

Manuel A. Vasquez, University of Florida
Performing Identities and Spaces among Brazilian and Congolese Immigrants in London and Atlanta: The Case of Two Transnational Religious Networks

 

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