Reading Group: “Daughters Lead the Way: Women Successors in Japanese New Buddhist Movements”

About the speaker

TORI MONTROSE (PhD University of Southern California) is a scholar of modern religion specializing in global Buddhism and Japanese religions. Her current research projects include the modernization of Buddhist education in Japan and female leadership in new Buddhist movements. In both her teaching and research, she is interested in the ways in which modernizing and globalizing forces intersect and interact with traditional religious groups. Tori's work has been published in the journal Japanese Religions, and in the edited volumes, Women and Representation in Buddhist Asia (forthcoming), Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements (Brill, 2018) and Methods in Buddhist Studies (Bloomsbury, 2019).

For questions and the reading group materials, please contact Christoph Emmrich at christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca.

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