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CBSS Podcast: Lori Meeks

Lori Meeks, assistant professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Culture at the University of Southern California, presented her talk on "Changing Views of Women's Salvation: Tracing the Transformation of Gender Discourse in Premodern Japan" on March 29th, 2010 as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar. Meeks is the author of Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan, coming out later this year and published by the University of Hawai'i Press.

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CBSS Podcast: Rebecca Nedostup

Rebecca Nedostup, associate professor in the Department of History, Boston College, presented her talk on "Buddhism and the Boundaries of 'Religion' as a Category of Modern Chinese Governance" on March 2nd, 2010 as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar. Prof. Nedostup is the author of the recently-published book Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity, published by the Harvard University Asia Center.

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