Eleanor Pontoriero

Sessional Lecturer II - Long Term
Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • Gender
  • Human Rights and Peacebuilding in Comparative Context
  • Socially engaged Buddhism
  • Buddhist and secular mindfulness
  • Ethics
  • Buddhist-Christian dialogue
  • Psychology of religion

Biography

Selected Publications

“Burning Refuge: Spiritual and Political Liberation in the Navayana Buddhist Movement,” Journal of International Buddhist Studies (Vol.16 No.2 2025): 17-33.

“Teachings of the People: Environmental Justice, Religion, and the Global South,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 42 (1):85-103 (2022).

“On Multiple Belonging: Engaging Human Rights from a Buddhist-Christian, and Feminist Liberative Praxis,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 39:181–202 (2019).

Academic Memberships

  • Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
  • International Association of Buddhist Studies