G Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 15507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8762-4382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defining “Overburdened Communities” in State-Level Legislation Using Cumulative Impacts Frameworks to Inform Environmental Decision-Making: Implications for Environmental and Health Justice
Differences in PM 2.5 concentrations were largest when OBC definitions included race/ethnicity, and if current trends continue, are projected to increase over time, regardless of OBC definition. Exposure inequalities for OBCs defined using race and ethnicity are only eliminated under scenarios that double or quadruple current rates of reduction
Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China
Universal Karma
Drawing on recent ethnographic research at a temple-based Buddhist charitable foundation in mainland China, this study joins recent scholarship that questions an understanding of karma as a solely individual soteriological enterprise. It shows how both volunteers and paid staff at the charitable foundation, many of whom were practicing Buddhists, focused on helping both people and other sentient beings as soteriological goals in their own right a…
Supplemental Material for Historical Change in Midlife Health, Well-Being, and Despair: Cross-Cultural and Socioeconomic Comparisons
In the current study, we included Mexico, which is considered an upper-middle-income and developing nation and the United States, Australia, Germany, and South Korea, which are considered high-income nations. The distinction follows the United Nations (Millennium Development Indicators: World and Regional Groupings, 2003; UN, 2020) that uses the per capita gross national income (GNI) established by the World Bank to classify countries by their le…
From Temples to Teahouses: Exploring the Evolution of Lay Buddhism in Post-Mao China
This article presents an overview of the nature of lay Buddhist revival in post-Mao China. After defining the category of lay practitioner, it outlines key events in the revival of lay Buddhism following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Following this, it describes three main aspects of the revival: the grassroots-organized formation of communities of lay Buddhists that gather at temples either to share and discuss the moral teachings of Buddh…
Special Issue: Chinese Buddhism from Holmes Welch to the Present
This special issue of Review of Religion in Chinese Society is devoted to an examination of the state of the field in scholarship on Chinese Buddhism since the death of Mao. It is based on a consultative meeting that was held at the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University on April 28, 2018. The meeting featured a discussion among leading scholars in contemporary Chinese Buddhism whose revised work is presented in this issue
“I Believe in Buddhism and Travelling”: Denoting Oneself a Lay Buddhist in Contemporary Urban Taiwan
Lay Buddhists and Moral Activism in Contemporary China (当代中国的佛教居士与道德能动主义)
The last few decades have seen the rise of grassroots groups of lay Buddhists in post-Mao China who, through the composition, exchange, and discussion of Buddhist-themed media, foster moral discourses that critique what they perceive as the materialistic direction of contemporary Chinese society. Disseminated at legal but unregulated spaces within Buddhist temples, these discourses empower the economically marginalized lay practitioners who gathe…
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by over a decade of field research, it provides an intimate portrait of lay Buddhist practitioners in Beijing who have recently embraced a religion that they were once socialized to see as harmful superstition. The book focuses on the lively discourses and debates that take place among these new practiti…
Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple
This article presents an ethnographic examination of a range of religious practices at the Buddhist Temple of Universal Rescue (Guangji si) in Beijing. Temple-goers engaged in both ritual practices in the temple’s inner courtyard and moralistic conversations in the outer courtyard draw on recycled fragments of China’s many “pasts” to form cultural repertoires. These repertoires provide the temple-goers with a cultural toolkit to enter into meanin…
The Role of Rangelands in Diversified Farming Systems: Innovations, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the USA
Sayre, N. F., L. Carlisle, L. Huntsinger, G. Fisher, and A. Shattuck. 2012. The role of rangelands in diversified farming systems: innovations, obstacles, and opportunities in the USA. Ecology and Society 17(4): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04790-170443
In the Footsteps of the Tourists: Buddhist Revival at Museum/Temple Sites in Beijing
Only a fraction of the Buddhist temples in Beijing that once housed monastics now function as places for religious activity. Some were demolished while others were converted to schools, government buildings, or residences. Several of these former temples have been restored; however, some have not been reopened as official religious sites but rather as fee-charging museums. Other temples have been restored to religious use but remain encircled wit…
Fieldwork on East Asian Buddhism: Toward a Person-Centered Approach
Recent interest in the contemporary practice of Buddhism in East Asia has led scholars of religion to undertake firsthand fieldwork among religious professionals and lay practitioners. Using three recent studies as examples, this paper argues that scholars of religion and Buddhism sometimes fail to maximize the potential of ethnographic fieldwork due to their focus on updating genealogies of Buddhist institutions. Drawing from a field-based study…
Globalizing Buddhists from margins to center: Mobile charisma in the Tzu Chi movement
Julia Huang’s (2009) multi‐sited ethnography of the Buddhist Relief Tzu Chi Merit Society (Fojiao Ciji Gongdehui) is a study of flows, both centrifugal and centripetal, and how they are embodied th
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China. Amy Hanser
The Spiritual Land Rush: Merit and Morality in New Chinese Buddhist Temple Construction
This article explores factors contributing to a boom in Buddhist temple construction in contemporary mainland China. In contrast to recent studies focusing on struggles between religious believers and the state over the revival of local temples and churches, this article examines the culture of merit making and morality building that leads clergy and lay practitioners to form translocal networks with the aim of constructing temples in rural areas…
Hazards of the Market: The Continuity and Dissolution of Interorganizational Market Relationships
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Existential Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
This article explores existential psychotherapy as an effective approach to working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Focused on being in the world, the existential approach addresses the very issue that torments many survivors: To be seen and exposed in the world invites not only danger but possible annihilation. The article touches on the broad range of symptoms or manifestations of childhood sexual abuse as they may surface in the adul…
Resistance and Salvation in Falun Gong: The Promise and Peril of Forbearance
In Falun Gong forbearance (ren), along with truthfulness (zhen), and benevolence (shan) makes up one of basic characteristics of the universe and forms an essential part of any practitioner's soteriology. In order to gain good karma, a practitioner must learn to forbear the suffering inflicted by others while not shirking from her faith in Falun Gong teachings. Forbearance has become an extremely effective means of resistance by Falun Gong practi…
Land Capability Classification for Agriculture
An ecosystems approach to the study of dangerous drug use and abuse with special reference to the marijuana issue
An ecosystems approach to the study of dangerous drug use and abuse with special reference to the marijuana issue. G Fisher, and I StrantzCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.10.1407 Published Online: October 07, 2011
U. S. Army in World War II. The Technical Services. The Chemical Warfare Service: Organizing for War
The Spiritual Land Rush: Merit and Morality in New Chinese Buddhist Temple Construction
This article explores factors contributing to a boom in Buddhist temple construction in contemporary mainland China. In contrast to recent studies focusing on struggles between religious believers and the state over the revival of local temples and churches, this article examines the culture of merit making and morality building that leads clergy and lay practitioners to form translocal networks with the aim of constructing temples in rural areas…
Land Capability Classification for Agriculture
Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple
This article presents an ethnographic examination of a range of religious practices at the Buddhist Temple of Universal Rescue (Guangji si) in Beijing. Temple-goers engaged in both ritual practices in the temple’s inner courtyard and moralistic conversations in the outer courtyard draw on recycled fragments of China’s many “pasts” to form cultural repertoires. These repertoires provide the temple-goers with a cultural toolkit to enter into meanin…
Existential Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
This article explores existential psychotherapy as an effective approach to working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Focused on being in the world, the existential approach addresses the very issue that torments many survivors: To be seen and exposed in the world invites not only danger but possible annihilation. The article touches on the broad range of symptoms or manifestations of childhood sexual abuse as they may surface in the adul…
U. S. Army in World War II. The Technical Services. The Chemical Warfare Service: Organizing for War
An ecosystems approach to the study of dangerous drug use and abuse with special reference to the marijuana issue
An ecosystems approach to the study of dangerous drug use and abuse with special reference to the marijuana issue. G Fisher, and I StrantzCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.10.1407 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Land Capability Classification for Agriculture
Resistance and Salvation in Falun Gong: The Promise and Peril of Forbearance
In Falun Gong forbearance (ren), along with truthfulness (zhen), and benevolence (shan) makes up one of basic characteristics of the universe and forms an essential part of any practitioner's soteriology. In order to gain good karma, a practitioner must learn to forbear the suffering inflicted by others while not shirking from her faith in Falun Gong teachings. Forbearance has become an extremely effective means of resistance by Falun Gong practi…
Existential Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
This article explores existential psychotherapy as an effective approach to working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Focused on being in the world, the existential approach addresses the very issue that torments many survivors: To be seen and exposed in the world invites not only danger but possible annihilation. The article touches on the broad range of symptoms or manifestations of childhood sexual abuse as they may surface in the adul…
Hazards of the Market: The Continuity and Dissolution of Interorganizational Market Relationships
Э
The Spiritual Land Rush: Merit and Morality in New Chinese Buddhist Temple Construction
This article explores factors contributing to a boom in Buddhist temple construction in contemporary mainland China. In contrast to recent studies focusing on struggles between religious believers and the state over the revival of local temples and churches, this article examines the culture of merit making and morality building that leads clergy and lay practitioners to form translocal networks with the aim of constructing temples in rural areas…
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China. Amy Hanser
Globalizing Buddhists from margins to center: Mobile charisma in the Tzu Chi movement
Julia Huang’s (2009) multi‐sited ethnography of the Buddhist Relief Tzu Chi Merit Society (Fojiao Ciji Gongdehui) is a study of flows, both centrifugal and centripetal, and how they are embodied th
In the Footsteps of the Tourists: Buddhist Revival at Museum/Temple Sites in Beijing
Only a fraction of the Buddhist temples in Beijing that once housed monastics now function as places for religious activity. Some were demolished while others were converted to schools, government buildings, or residences. Several of these former temples have been restored; however, some have not been reopened as official religious sites but rather as fee-charging museums. Other temples have been restored to religious use but remain encircled wit…
Fieldwork on East Asian Buddhism: Toward a Person-Centered Approach
Recent interest in the contemporary practice of Buddhism in East Asia has led scholars of religion to undertake firsthand fieldwork among religious professionals and lay practitioners. Using three recent studies as examples, this paper argues that scholars of religion and Buddhism sometimes fail to maximize the potential of ethnographic fieldwork due to their focus on updating genealogies of Buddhist institutions. Drawing from a field-based study…
Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple
This article presents an ethnographic examination of a range of religious practices at the Buddhist Temple of Universal Rescue (Guangji si) in Beijing. Temple-goers engaged in both ritual practices in the temple’s inner courtyard and moralistic conversations in the outer courtyard draw on recycled fragments of China’s many “pasts” to form cultural repertoires. These repertoires provide the temple-goers with a cultural toolkit to enter into meanin…
The Role of Rangelands in Diversified Farming Systems: Innovations, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the USA
Sayre, N. F., L. Carlisle, L. Huntsinger, G. Fisher, and A. Shattuck. 2012. The role of rangelands in diversified farming systems: innovations, obstacles, and opportunities in the USA. Ecology and Society 17(4): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04790-170443
Lay Buddhists and Moral Activism in Contemporary China (当代中国的佛教居士与道德能动主义)
The last few decades have seen the rise of grassroots groups of lay Buddhists in post-Mao China who, through the composition, exchange, and discussion of Buddhist-themed media, foster moral discourses that critique what they perceive as the materialistic direction of contemporary Chinese society. Disseminated at legal but unregulated spaces within Buddhist temples, these discourses empower the economically marginalized lay practitioners who gathe…
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China
From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by over a decade of field research, it provides an intimate portrait of lay Buddhist practitioners in Beijing who have recently embraced a religion that they were once socialized to see as harmful superstition. The book focuses on the lively discourses and debates that take place among these new practiti…
“I Believe in Buddhism and Travelling”: Denoting Oneself a Lay Buddhist in Contemporary Urban Taiwan
From Temples to Teahouses: Exploring the Evolution of Lay Buddhism in Post-Mao China
This article presents an overview of the nature of lay Buddhist revival in post-Mao China. After defining the category of lay practitioner, it outlines key events in the revival of lay Buddhism following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Following this, it describes three main aspects of the revival: the grassroots-organized formation of communities of lay Buddhists that gather at temples either to share and discuss the moral teachings of Buddh…
Special Issue: Chinese Buddhism from Holmes Welch to the Present
This special issue of Review of Religion in Chinese Society is devoted to an examination of the state of the field in scholarship on Chinese Buddhism since the death of Mao. It is based on a consultative meeting that was held at the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University on April 28, 2018. The meeting featured a discussion among leading scholars in contemporary Chinese Buddhism whose revised work is presented in this issue
Supplemental Material for Historical Change in Midlife Health, Well-Being, and Despair: Cross-Cultural and Socioeconomic Comparisons
In the current study, we included Mexico, which is considered an upper-middle-income and developing nation and the United States, Australia, Germany, and South Korea, which are considered high-income nations. The distinction follows the United Nations (Millennium Development Indicators: World and Regional Groupings, 2003; UN, 2020) that uses the per capita gross national income (GNI) established by the World Bank to classify countries by their le…
Universal Karma
Drawing on recent ethnographic research at a temple-based Buddhist charitable foundation in mainland China, this study joins recent scholarship that questions an understanding of karma as a solely individual soteriological enterprise. It shows how both volunteers and paid staff at the charitable foundation, many of whom were practicing Buddhists, focused on helping both people and other sentient beings as soteriological goals in their own right a…
Defining “Overburdened Communities” in State-Level Legislation Using Cumulative Impacts Frameworks to Inform Environmental Decision-Making: Implications for Environmental and Health Justice
Differences in PM 2.5 concentrations were largest when OBC definitions included race/ethnicity, and if current trends continue, are projected to increase over time, regardless of OBC definition. Exposure inequalities for OBCs defined using race and ethnicity are only eliminated under scenarios that double or quadruple current rates of reduction
Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China
Sociology (13 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Buddhism (11 works) · China (10 works) · History (10 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works)