Jens Reinke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens Reinke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens |
| FAMILY NAME | Reinke |
| SIGNATURE | REINKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-7474-1351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Five Sīlas, the Community Pure Land, and a Good Death: The Scholar-Monk Shi Huimin’s Contribution to the Development of Buddhist Palliative Care in Contemporary Taiwan
In the history as well as historiography of Chinese Buddhism, the tradition has often been closely associated with death-related cultural practices and ideas, an association that has frequently carried negative connotations. Early twentieth-century reformers such as Taixu famously criticized Buddhism as a religion of ghosts and funerals and sought to redirect Mahāyāna Buddhism toward engagement with an urban, modernizing society. Contemporary Tai…
Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain, By Yu-Shuang Yao , Richard Gombrich
Journal Article Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain, By Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich Get access Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain By Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich Equinox, 2022. 140 pages. $80.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback), $27.95 (e-book). Jens Reinke Jens Reinke Vrije University Amst…
The Buddha in Bronkhorstspruit: The Transnational Spread of the Taiwanese Buddhist Order Fo Guang Shan to South Africa
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article discusses how the Fo Guang Shan Nan Hua Temple in South Africa constitutes a transnational religious space linking a ‘Global China’ and the dynamic interplay of its constituent parts (ROC/Taiwan, the Peoples Republic of China/PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Chinese diasporas in South East Asia and worldwide) with the South African host society. It does so by looking at the complex processes of Chine…
Sacred Secularities: Ritual and Social Engagement in a Global Buddhist China
The Taiwanese order Fo Guang Shan is a major representative of renjian Buddhism. The order maintains a global network of over 200 temples and practice centers that spans over not only most of the Asian continent, but also includes Oceania, the Americas, Europe and Africa. This article examines how the order negotiates the modern secular/religious divide by considering the example of its flagship diaspora temple Hsi Lai Temple in L.A., California.…
Does Solidarity Pay? A Response to Simanowitz
How to lend like mad and make a profit: A micro‐credit paradigm versus the start‐up fund in South Africa
In current debates about micro‐credit, joint‐liability schemes are often viewed as the only viable way to non‐collateralised lending, and are thus seen as almost synonymous with micro‐credit. This article reports about an alternative, non‐participatory approach to micro‐credit. Prompted by the apparent inability of group credit schemes to reign in lending costs, the article sets out the institutional requirements for cheap, ‘mass‐produced’ credit…
Does Solidarity Pay? The Case of the Small Enterprise Foundation, South Africa
This article argues that the costs of lending through solidarity groups are high. This is explained by the nature of groups: groups are not a forum for contractual exchange, but are costly institutions built on social capital. The costs of group formation and interaction outweigh the benefits of high repayment rates associated with group control. Supposedly sustainable group-lenders often depend on large injections of subsidized loans or capital …
The Buddha in Bronkhorstspruit: The Transnational Spread of the Taiwanese Buddhist Order Fo Guang Shan to South Africa
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article discusses how the Fo Guang Shan Nan Hua Temple in South Africa constitutes a transnational religious space linking a ‘Global China’ and the dynamic interplay of its constituent parts (ROC/Taiwan, the Peoples Republic of China/PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Chinese diasporas in South East Asia and worldwide) with the South African host society. It does so by looking at the complex processes of Chine…
Does Solidarity Pay? The Case of the Small Enterprise Foundation, South Africa
This article argues that the costs of lending through solidarity groups are high. This is explained by the nature of groups: groups are not a forum for contractual exchange, but are costly institutions built on social capital. The costs of group formation and interaction outweigh the benefits of high repayment rates associated with group control. Supposedly sustainable group-lenders often depend on large injections of subsidized loans or capital …
Sacred Secularities: Ritual and Social Engagement in a Global Buddhist China
The Taiwanese order Fo Guang Shan is a major representative of renjian Buddhism. The order maintains a global network of over 200 temples and practice centers that spans over not only most of the Asian continent, but also includes Oceania, the Americas, Europe and Africa. This article examines how the order negotiates the modern secular/religious divide by considering the example of its flagship diaspora temple Hsi Lai Temple in L.A., California.…
How to lend like mad and make a profit: A micro‐credit paradigm versus the start‐up fund in South Africa
In current debates about micro‐credit, joint‐liability schemes are often viewed as the only viable way to non‐collateralised lending, and are thus seen as almost synonymous with micro‐credit. This article reports about an alternative, non‐participatory approach to micro‐credit. Prompted by the apparent inability of group credit schemes to reign in lending costs, the article sets out the institutional requirements for cheap, ‘mass‐produced’ credit…
Does Solidarity Pay? The Case of the Small Enterprise Foundation, South Africa
This article argues that the costs of lending through solidarity groups are high. This is explained by the nature of groups: groups are not a forum for contractual exchange, but are costly institutions built on social capital. The costs of group formation and interaction outweigh the benefits of high repayment rates associated with group control. Supposedly sustainable group-lenders often depend on large injections of subsidized loans or capital …
Does Solidarity Pay? A Response to Simanowitz
Sacred Secularities: Ritual and Social Engagement in a Global Buddhist China
The Taiwanese order Fo Guang Shan is a major representative of renjian Buddhism. The order maintains a global network of over 200 temples and practice centers that spans over not only most of the Asian continent, but also includes Oceania, the Americas, Europe and Africa. This article examines how the order negotiates the modern secular/religious divide by considering the example of its flagship diaspora temple Hsi Lai Temple in L.A., California.…
The Buddha in Bronkhorstspruit: The Transnational Spread of the Taiwanese Buddhist Order Fo Guang Shan to South Africa
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article discusses how the Fo Guang Shan Nan Hua Temple in South Africa constitutes a transnational religious space linking a ‘Global China’ and the dynamic interplay of its constituent parts (ROC/Taiwan, the Peoples Republic of China/PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Chinese diasporas in South East Asia and worldwide) with the South African host society. It does so by looking at the complex processes of Chine…
Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain, By Yu-Shuang Yao , Richard Gombrich
Journal Article Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain, By Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich Get access Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain By Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich Equinox, 2022. 140 pages. $80.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback), $27.95 (e-book). Jens Reinke Jens Reinke Vrije University Amst…
The Five Sīlas, the Community Pure Land, and a Good Death: The Scholar-Monk Shi Huimin’s Contribution to the Development of Buddhist Palliative Care in Contemporary Taiwan
In the history as well as historiography of Chinese Buddhism, the tradition has often been closely associated with death-related cultural practices and ideas, an association that has frequently carried negative connotations. Early twentieth-century reformers such as Taixu famously criticized Buddhism as a religion of ghosts and funerals and sought to redirect Mahāyāna Buddhism toward engagement with an urban, modernizing society. Contemporary Tai…
Buddhism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Business (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works)