Footnotes on "What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It"

January 10, 2022 00:10:04
Footnotes on "What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It"
Buddhist Studies Footnotes
Footnotes on "What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It"

Jan 10 2022 | 00:10:04

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Frances Garrett Tony Scott

Show Notes

A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, "What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It" by K.L. LaMothe, published in 2008 in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76(3), 573–601. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The show’s music is “Folk Psychology” by Nic Bommarito and “Bells in the Wind” by Daniel Birch.

The Footnotes series is created at the University of Toronto, in Canada, with support from eCampus Ontario. Created by Frances Garrett, a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, Footnotes is a series of short lectures or readings on research in the field. Each episode features an article or book chapter from an academic book in Buddhist Studies. We aim to make topics in Buddhist Studies research freely accessible to students and the public.

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