Daniel Capper
Biographic Data
| ID | 386616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Capper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Capper |
| SIGNATURE | CAPPER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5797-8083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Buddhist environmental ethics and climate change
Philosophically, Buddhist ethics would appear to be well-prepared for the climate change age. Buddhists receive encouragement to extend compassion and nonharm throughout a universe that is utterly interconnected across time and space. Such positive extensions result in a strength of the tradition involving some welcome positive treatment of nonhuman animals. However, looking closely in terms of practical outcomes reveals some serious limitations …
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Buddhist environmental ethics and climate change
The peer review history for this article is available at https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1111/rec3.12484
Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World
By exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, this book provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of Buddhist environmental ethics. The book clarifies crucial contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman animals. Buddhist envir…
American Buddhist Protection of Stones in Terms of Climate Change on Mars and Earth
A number of scientific writers have proposed manipulating the ecology of Mars in order to make the planet more comfortable for future immigrants from Earth. However, the ethical acceptability of such ‘terraforming’ proposals remains unresolved. In response, in this article I explore some of these scientific proposals through the lens provided by Buddhist environmental ethics that are quantitatively expressed by practitioners in the ethnographic f…
Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation
Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(1), pp. 158–159
Entering the Stream to Enlightenment: Experiences of the Stages of the Buddhist Path in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Entering the Stream to Enlightenment: Experiences of the Stages of the Buddhist Path in Contemporary Sri Lanka." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(2), pp. 348–349
Animism among Western Buddhists
Myriad instances of animist phenomena abound in the Buddhist world, but due to the outdated concepts of thinkers such as Edward Tylor, James George Frazer, and Melford Spiro, commonly scholars perceive this animism merely as the work of local religions, not as deriving from Buddhism itself. However, when one follows a number of contemporary scholars and employs a new, relational concept of animism that is based on respectful recognition of nonhum…
The Maternal Personhood of Cattle and Plants at a Hindu Center in the United States
Learning Love from a Tiger: Approaches to Nature in an American Buddhist Monastery
In current debates about Buddhist approaches to the non-human natural world, studies describe Buddhism variously as anthropocentric, bio-centric or eco-centric. These perspectives derive for the most part from examinations of philosophical and normative aspects of the tradition without much attention to moments when embodied practice diverges from religious ideals. Responding to the need for narrative thick descriptions of lived Buddhist attitude…
Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South
Book Review| November 01 2013 Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South. By Jeff Wilson. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 296 pages. $36.95 cloth. Daniel Capper Daniel Capper University Of Southern Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 17 (2): 105–106. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.105…
The Friendly Yeti
Most images of yetis in Western popular culture and scholarly literature portray them as secular, predatory monsters. These representations overlook important religious dimensions of yetis that are hidden in the current literature so I take a new look at yetis in Tibetan religions in order to clarify our understanding of these legendary creatures. Following a phenomenological approach that sets aside the issue of the ontological existence of yeti…
Enchantment with Tibetan Lamas in the United States
This article explores the relationships of non-Tibetan American disciples with Tibetan spiritual teachers (lamas) in terms of theory, practice, and experiential meaning. Contrary to some previous studies, data for this article indicate that submission to the lama is not an end in itself, but rather ideally provides an opportunity for disciples to become lamas themselves. Many disciples may find personal empowerment, oriented around the theme of c…
Scientific empathy, American buddhism, and the ethnography of religion
The expansion of the use of ethnography in the study of religion has led to substantial methodological confusion. The reflexive ethnographic efforts that exist commonly appeal to the need for ethnographer empathy for field subjects, although the nature and ethical ramifications of this empathy remain poorly explored. This essay offers a model of ethnographic empathy in terms of the methodological observations of Weber, Homans, and Kohut. Using a …
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition. James William Coleman
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England
Scientific empathy, American buddhism, and the ethnography of religion
The expansion of the use of ethnography in the study of religion has led to substantial methodological confusion. The reflexive ethnographic efforts that exist commonly appeal to the need for ethnographer empathy for field subjects, although the nature and ethical ramifications of this empathy remain poorly explored. This essay offers a model of ethnographic empathy in terms of the methodological observations of Weber, Homans, and Kohut. Using a …
Enchantment with Tibetan Lamas in the United States
This article explores the relationships of non-Tibetan American disciples with Tibetan spiritual teachers (lamas) in terms of theory, practice, and experiential meaning. Contrary to some previous studies, data for this article indicate that submission to the lama is not an end in itself, but rather ideally provides an opportunity for disciples to become lamas themselves. Many disciples may find personal empowerment, oriented around the theme of c…
Buddhist environmental ethics and climate change
Philosophically, Buddhist ethics would appear to be well-prepared for the climate change age. Buddhists receive encouragement to extend compassion and nonharm throughout a universe that is utterly interconnected across time and space. Such positive extensions result in a strength of the tradition involving some welcome positive treatment of nonhuman animals. However, looking closely in terms of practical outcomes reveals some serious limitations …
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition. James William Coleman
Scientific empathy, American buddhism, and the ethnography of religion
The expansion of the use of ethnography in the study of religion has led to substantial methodological confusion. The reflexive ethnographic efforts that exist commonly appeal to the need for ethnographer empathy for field subjects, although the nature and ethical ramifications of this empathy remain poorly explored. This essay offers a model of ethnographic empathy in terms of the methodological observations of Weber, Homans, and Kohut. Using a …
Enchantment with Tibetan Lamas in the United States
This article explores the relationships of non-Tibetan American disciples with Tibetan spiritual teachers (lamas) in terms of theory, practice, and experiential meaning. Contrary to some previous studies, data for this article indicate that submission to the lama is not an end in itself, but rather ideally provides an opportunity for disciples to become lamas themselves. Many disciples may find personal empowerment, oriented around the theme of c…
The Friendly Yeti
Most images of yetis in Western popular culture and scholarly literature portray them as secular, predatory monsters. These representations overlook important religious dimensions of yetis that are hidden in the current literature so I take a new look at yetis in Tibetan religions in order to clarify our understanding of these legendary creatures. Following a phenomenological approach that sets aside the issue of the ontological existence of yeti…
Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South
Book Review| November 01 2013 Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South. By Jeff Wilson. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 296 pages. $36.95 cloth. Daniel Capper Daniel Capper University Of Southern Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 17 (2): 105–106. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.105…
Learning Love from a Tiger: Approaches to Nature in an American Buddhist Monastery
In current debates about Buddhist approaches to the non-human natural world, studies describe Buddhism variously as anthropocentric, bio-centric or eco-centric. These perspectives derive for the most part from examinations of philosophical and normative aspects of the tradition without much attention to moments when embodied practice diverges from religious ideals. Responding to the need for narrative thick descriptions of lived Buddhist attitude…
Animism among Western Buddhists
Myriad instances of animist phenomena abound in the Buddhist world, but due to the outdated concepts of thinkers such as Edward Tylor, James George Frazer, and Melford Spiro, commonly scholars perceive this animism merely as the work of local religions, not as deriving from Buddhism itself. However, when one follows a number of contemporary scholars and employs a new, relational concept of animism that is based on respectful recognition of nonhum…
The Maternal Personhood of Cattle and Plants at a Hindu Center in the United States
Entering the Stream to Enlightenment: Experiences of the Stages of the Buddhist Path in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Entering the Stream to Enlightenment: Experiences of the Stages of the Buddhist Path in Contemporary Sri Lanka." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(2), pp. 348–349
Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation
Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(1), pp. 158–159
American Buddhist Protection of Stones in Terms of Climate Change on Mars and Earth
A number of scientific writers have proposed manipulating the ecology of Mars in order to make the planet more comfortable for future immigrants from Earth. However, the ethical acceptability of such ‘terraforming’ proposals remains unresolved. In response, in this article I explore some of these scientific proposals through the lens provided by Buddhist environmental ethics that are quantitatively expressed by practitioners in the ethnographic f…
Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World
By exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, this book provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of Buddhist environmental ethics. The book clarifies crucial contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman animals. Buddhist envir…
Buddhist environmental ethics and climate change
Philosophically, Buddhist ethics would appear to be well-prepared for the climate change age. Buddhists receive encouragement to extend compassion and nonharm throughout a universe that is utterly interconnected across time and space. Such positive extensions result in a strength of the tradition involving some welcome positive treatment of nonhuman animals. However, looking closely in terms of practical outcomes reveals some serious limitations …
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Buddhist environmental ethics and climate change
The peer review history for this article is available at https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1111/rec3.12484
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