The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more
This project challenges the established chronology of the Counter-Reformation by investigating Catholic investments in material culture in the Low Countries in the transitional period from c. 1535 to c. 1585. ...read more
This project seeks to rethink the history of modern Chinese thought by providing the first ever study of the academic discipline of “ethnic minority philosophies” in the People’s Republic of ...read more
Proceeding from the maxim that 'nothing can be understood apart from context', this research projects seeks to do that which is rarely done in the study of Buddhist literature. It ...read more
This project examines the role of written records in the construction of religious knowledge in ancient Greece. Traditionally, Greek religion has been understood as an action-orientated religion based on oral ...read more
In the early 20th century of China, Buddhism got more and more integrated into economic, political and cultural developments. This contributed to what Master Taixu has called ‘Humanistic Buddhism’. This ...read more
This project examines the role of written records and record-keeping in the construction of religious knowledge in ancient Greece. Traditionally, Greek religion is understood as an action-orientated religion based on ...read more
As part of the modernization project of Buddhism in the first half of twentieth-century, Chinese laypeople and monastics discussed Western psychology by framing their engagements with yogācāra teachings. Their activity ...read more