Christopher Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-0992-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Theoretical and Practical Reflections on Methodological Ludism
The field of religious studies has reached a just consensus that the discipline once known as “comparative religion” was epistemically and ethically problematic. Yet, comparison remains the unacknowledged architect of the theoretical categories by which scholars delimit their more local case studies. The authors suggest scholars would perform these implicit comparisons more responsibly by externalizing and explicitly theorizing them, and that “co…
Approaching the Freedom Convoy
This special issue crystalizes the reflections of a handful of Canadian scholars, initially written in the months following the Freedom Convoy's occupation of downtown Ottawa (and then refined in the subsequent year), who consider the various ways in which the contemporary media oversimplified (or, more often, utterly ignored) the role(s) of religion in this event. This introduction uses the convoy's occupation as an opportunity to revisit the ro…
Disciplined Comparison in the Undergraduate Theory and Method Classroom
This article details the author's reimagining of the undergraduate theory and method course, in which intentional, disciplined comparison is employed to challenge and problematize traditional narratives about Religious Studies as an academic discipline. Doing so helps to answer calls to decolonize our curricula, not only by critiquing historical theorists, but also by including non‐Western perspectives as sources of theory (as opposed to mere dat…
Comparative Religious Studies
In this article, the authors explore their motivations for conceiving of and assembling the current issue on comparative religious studies as a viable pedagogical orientation for our troubled times. Situated in both the history of comparison as a method and scholarship on effective pedagogy, it argues that disciplined, scholarly, sound comparative thinking (whether at the level of textbook authorship, course design, or selection of classroom acti…
The Oneiro- and the Hagio
This paper explores the potentially fruitful interplay between a set of practical and theoretical approaches developed to teach post-secondary students about accounts of dreams and of exemplars, in cases where these phenomena have been deemed significant by specific religious discourse communities. Incorporating insights from his participation in the Comparative Hagiology group, the author suggests-in particular-that the expanded perspective on h…
Rhetorical uses of the exemplary child trope in the Biographies of Eminent Monks and Biographies of Nuns
Chinese hagiographers and historians from the Warring States period onward had a variety of rhetorical tools at their disposal for conveying superlative character, with one of the most ubiquitous being the exemplary child trope. When Chinese Buddhist hagiographers began to memorialise the lives of their renowned forbears (in collections such as the Biographies of Eminent Monks [Gaoseng zhuan] and the Biographies of Nuns [Biqiuni zhuan]), they too…
Studies in Medievalism XXIX
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Studies in Medievalism XXIX
Rhetorical uses of the exemplary child trope in the Biographies of Eminent Monks and Biographies of Nuns
Chinese hagiographers and historians from the Warring States period onward had a variety of rhetorical tools at their disposal for conveying superlative character, with one of the most ubiquitous being the exemplary child trope. When Chinese Buddhist hagiographers began to memorialise the lives of their renowned forbears (in collections such as the Biographies of Eminent Monks [Gaoseng zhuan] and the Biographies of Nuns [Biqiuni zhuan]), they too…
Disciplined Comparison in the Undergraduate Theory and Method Classroom
This article details the author's reimagining of the undergraduate theory and method course, in which intentional, disciplined comparison is employed to challenge and problematize traditional narratives about Religious Studies as an academic discipline. Doing so helps to answer calls to decolonize our curricula, not only by critiquing historical theorists, but also by including non‐Western perspectives as sources of theory (as opposed to mere dat…
Comparative Religious Studies
In this article, the authors explore their motivations for conceiving of and assembling the current issue on comparative religious studies as a viable pedagogical orientation for our troubled times. Situated in both the history of comparison as a method and scholarship on effective pedagogy, it argues that disciplined, scholarly, sound comparative thinking (whether at the level of textbook authorship, course design, or selection of classroom acti…
The Oneiro- and the Hagio
This paper explores the potentially fruitful interplay between a set of practical and theoretical approaches developed to teach post-secondary students about accounts of dreams and of exemplars, in cases where these phenomena have been deemed significant by specific religious discourse communities. Incorporating insights from his participation in the Comparative Hagiology group, the author suggests-in particular-that the expanded perspective on h…
Theoretical and Practical Reflections on Methodological Ludism
The field of religious studies has reached a just consensus that the discipline once known as “comparative religion” was epistemically and ethically problematic. Yet, comparison remains the unacknowledged architect of the theoretical categories by which scholars delimit their more local case studies. The authors suggest scholars would perform these implicit comparisons more responsibly by externalizing and explicitly theorizing them, and that “co…
Approaching the Freedom Convoy
This special issue crystalizes the reflections of a handful of Canadian scholars, initially written in the months following the Freedom Convoy's occupation of downtown Ottawa (and then refined in the subsequent year), who consider the various ways in which the contemporary media oversimplified (or, more often, utterly ignored) the role(s) of religion in this event. This introduction uses the convoy's occupation as an opportunity to revisit the ro…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discipline (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)