Christopher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 7464 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher |
| SOBRENOME | Christopher |
| ASSINATURA | CHRISTOPHER |
| AFILIAÇÕES | International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9974-0791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From everyday encounters to geopolitical relations: The Tibetan diaspora in India
This article examines how Tibetan exile identity in India is shaped through the interplay of local social relations and broader geopolitical forces. It argues that Tibetan-Indian interactions have both everyday and geopolitical significance, influencing place-making, perceptions of India as Buddhism's homeland, and portrayals of Tibetans as exceptional refugees. After outlining continuities and changes in exile, we explore two case studies at dif…
Eingegangene Bücher
Tribal Dharamshala: Gaddi-Tibetan toponymic contestation and structures of history
Buddhism in the Now: Relaunching Contemporary Buddhism for a Changing World
Queer Vietnam
Inspired by the workshop “Sacred Canopies: LGBT+, Buddhism, and Economics in Vietnam,” hosted at the University of Copenhagen in November 2023, this introduction frames the themes of the special issue. It focuses on how Vietnam’s globalized market economy is shaping LGBTQI+ aspirations, mobilizations, personhoods, and spiritual experiences. It explores how the articles in this special issue shed new light on how LGBTQI+ people deal with exclusion…
Queer Practices in Tibeto-Vietnamese Vajrayana
This essay analyzes how young urban elites spiritualize their LGBTQI+ sexualities through the recent popularization of Tibetan Buddhism in Vietnam. New market conditions have commodified Tibetan Buddhism as an alternative to normative Mahayana practices. For the cohort in this study, a tension has emerged between the perceived inadequacies of state-run Vietnamese Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, the latter of which is experienced as individualizing…
Spiritual Branding and Corporate Profit in the Japanese Modern Mystery School
This article analyzes the irreducibility of spiritual branding, theologies of self-divinity and the business practices of a global esoteric company. Based on fieldwork with the Modern Mystery School (MMS) in Tokyo, I show how initiates, by purchasing an ascending syllabus of esoteric courses, recognize their own divinity and parlay this recognition into a spiritual brand that helps them market to their own clientele niche. The spiritual transform…
Business Spirits: Religion and Business as Co-constitutive Phenomena
What are the co-making processes that blur the boundaries between religion and economy? How can we move past misleading metaphors and analogies that reify the false distinction between sacred and secular or that frame religion as pure essences corrupted by financialization? Inspired by McLaughlin et al.’s (2020) call for increased attention to the “corporate form of religion,” we outline how common social structural and aspirational elements unde…
Corporate Religion and Spiritual Tourism at a Luxury Tibetan Buddhist Resort
This article analyses how spiritual tourism and the corporate form of religion are contributing to the rapid spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Vietnam. Specifically, we place the newly established Samten Hills, a Buddhist luxury resort, in two scholarly contexts. First: ecological discourses about Đà Lạt. Once a French hill station, Đà Lạt in the Central Highlands is famous for natural beauty and spiritual possibilities. Samten Hills is dedicated as …
The eroticization of Tibetan monks in shōnen-ai and yaoi manga
Men have historically dominated the artistic production of cultural exotifications. This article flips the script by analysing how two prominent female Japanese manga artists – Kuranishi and Shinsan Nameko – erotically illustrate Tibetan men, specifically Tibetan Buddhist monks. Through textual analysis and fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2021, we show how their manga depictions of Tibetan young men, in particular monks, tend towards erotici…
Exploring Gaddi Pluralities: An Introduction and Overview
This Introduction provides the first exhaustive overview of the range of ethnographic and historical research on Gaddis. Beginning with late 19th-century colonial efforts to pin down, in a manner characteristic of the period, the elusive structure of Gaddi society, we trace the trajectory of research in numerous Gaddi communities in western Himachal Pradesh over the last seventy years. We highlight several areas of substantial research at the int…
Priestly Purity: Status Competition in the Tribal Margins
This article analyzes the tribal aspirations of Sippis, traditionally a wool shearing caste closely associated with Gaddis. Sippis have different administrative classifications across three districts in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu. In most contexts, they self identify as part of the Gaddi tribe. In this regard, they are not alone; four other caste groups, partially integrated into Gaddi life, make similar claims of tribal belonging. They argue tha…
Caste, Covid-19, and Inequalities of Care: Lessons from South Asia
Critique of the Spirit: Hali Spirituality and Aspirational Tribal Hermeneutics
The problem of tribal casteism – of Indian Scheduled Castes (SC) partially integrated into Scheduled Tribes (ST), facing discrimination without constitutional protections as doubly subaltern – is nearly absent in scholarship. The Halis of Kangra district, in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, are one such SC community. Although most identify as Gaddi, the local tribe receiving coveted ST benefits, they are politically misrecognized. Throu…
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds
‘Scheduled Tribe Dalit’ and the Recognition of Tribal Casteism
While the term ‘tribalism’ in the West draws from outmoded anthropological theory to describe the hardening of partisan group boundaries, in Himachal Pradesh it describes the contested recognition of caste heterogeneity within Scheduled Tribes (ST). Based on 15 months of fieldwork among Gaddis, this article seeks to understand the intersectionality of low-caste groups embedded within tribal formations, partially assimilated, unevenly accepted and…
Divergent Refugee and Tribal Cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala
This article analyses the divergent, and occasionally overlapping, trajectories of Tibetan refugee and Gaddi tribal cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala, North India. In a place self-consciously branded as cosmopolitan, where Tibetan ethnocommodification is the primary symbolic currency, practices of inclusivity can broadly give way to Gaddi exclusions. Cosmopolitanism as an ordering ideology and set of intercultural competencies, often predicated on t…
International Criminal Law: Wielding the Sword of Universal Criminal Justice
Writing 62 years ago, Georg Schwarzenberger posited that international criminal law did not exist. As long as some States, those larger or more powerful, were held to a different standard, or, in fact, not held to account at all, it was premature to speak of such a thing. For Schwarzenberger, international criminal law was a misnomer without universal criminal justice. This article considers whether that same criticism can be made of internationa…
An archaeology of capitalism
Capitalism has been the focus of a great deal of social thinking and activity since the 18th-century. Understanding capitalism as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon has shed light on its inner workings as a system as well as guided strong criticisms of its effects on social reproduction, equality, and the sense of human nature, spirit, and subjectivity. Its significance has recently also been taken up as a focus for archaeological investi…
The eroticization of Tibetan monks in shōnen-ai and yaoi manga
Men have historically dominated the artistic production of cultural exotifications. This article flips the script by analysing how two prominent female Japanese manga artists – Kuranishi and Shinsan Nameko – erotically illustrate Tibetan men, specifically Tibetan Buddhist monks. Through textual analysis and fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2021, we show how their manga depictions of Tibetan young men, in particular monks, tend towards erotici…
Exploring Gaddi Pluralities: An Introduction and Overview
This Introduction provides the first exhaustive overview of the range of ethnographic and historical research on Gaddis. Beginning with late 19th-century colonial efforts to pin down, in a manner characteristic of the period, the elusive structure of Gaddi society, we trace the trajectory of research in numerous Gaddi communities in western Himachal Pradesh over the last seventy years. We highlight several areas of substantial research at the int…
Divergent Refugee and Tribal Cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala
This article analyses the divergent, and occasionally overlapping, trajectories of Tibetan refugee and Gaddi tribal cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala, North India. In a place self-consciously branded as cosmopolitan, where Tibetan ethnocommodification is the primary symbolic currency, practices of inclusivity can broadly give way to Gaddi exclusions. Cosmopolitanism as an ordering ideology and set of intercultural competencies, often predicated on t…
International Criminal Law: Wielding the Sword of Universal Criminal Justice
Writing 62 years ago, Georg Schwarzenberger posited that international criminal law did not exist. As long as some States, those larger or more powerful, were held to a different standard, or, in fact, not held to account at all, it was premature to speak of such a thing. For Schwarzenberger, international criminal law was a misnomer without universal criminal justice. This article considers whether that same criticism can be made of internationa…
An archaeology of capitalism
Capitalism has been the focus of a great deal of social thinking and activity since the 18th-century. Understanding capitalism as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon has shed light on its inner workings as a system as well as guided strong criticisms of its effects on social reproduction, equality, and the sense of human nature, spirit, and subjectivity. Its significance has recently also been taken up as a focus for archaeological investi…
International Criminal Law: Wielding the Sword of Universal Criminal Justice
Writing 62 years ago, Georg Schwarzenberger posited that international criminal law did not exist. As long as some States, those larger or more powerful, were held to a different standard, or, in fact, not held to account at all, it was premature to speak of such a thing. For Schwarzenberger, international criminal law was a misnomer without universal criminal justice. This article considers whether that same criticism can be made of internationa…
‘Scheduled Tribe Dalit’ and the Recognition of Tribal Casteism
While the term ‘tribalism’ in the West draws from outmoded anthropological theory to describe the hardening of partisan group boundaries, in Himachal Pradesh it describes the contested recognition of caste heterogeneity within Scheduled Tribes (ST). Based on 15 months of fieldwork among Gaddis, this article seeks to understand the intersectionality of low-caste groups embedded within tribal formations, partially assimilated, unevenly accepted and…
Divergent Refugee and Tribal Cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala
This article analyses the divergent, and occasionally overlapping, trajectories of Tibetan refugee and Gaddi tribal cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala, North India. In a place self-consciously branded as cosmopolitan, where Tibetan ethnocommodification is the primary symbolic currency, practices of inclusivity can broadly give way to Gaddi exclusions. Cosmopolitanism as an ordering ideology and set of intercultural competencies, often predicated on t…
Caste, Covid-19, and Inequalities of Care: Lessons from South Asia
Critique of the Spirit: Hali Spirituality and Aspirational Tribal Hermeneutics
The problem of tribal casteism – of Indian Scheduled Castes (SC) partially integrated into Scheduled Tribes (ST), facing discrimination without constitutional protections as doubly subaltern – is nearly absent in scholarship. The Halis of Kangra district, in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, are one such SC community. Although most identify as Gaddi, the local tribe receiving coveted ST benefits, they are politically misrecognized. Throu…
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds
The eroticization of Tibetan monks in shōnen-ai and yaoi manga
Men have historically dominated the artistic production of cultural exotifications. This article flips the script by analysing how two prominent female Japanese manga artists – Kuranishi and Shinsan Nameko – erotically illustrate Tibetan men, specifically Tibetan Buddhist monks. Through textual analysis and fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2021, we show how their manga depictions of Tibetan young men, in particular monks, tend towards erotici…
Exploring Gaddi Pluralities: An Introduction and Overview
This Introduction provides the first exhaustive overview of the range of ethnographic and historical research on Gaddis. Beginning with late 19th-century colonial efforts to pin down, in a manner characteristic of the period, the elusive structure of Gaddi society, we trace the trajectory of research in numerous Gaddi communities in western Himachal Pradesh over the last seventy years. We highlight several areas of substantial research at the int…
Priestly Purity: Status Competition in the Tribal Margins
This article analyzes the tribal aspirations of Sippis, traditionally a wool shearing caste closely associated with Gaddis. Sippis have different administrative classifications across three districts in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu. In most contexts, they self identify as part of the Gaddi tribe. In this regard, they are not alone; four other caste groups, partially integrated into Gaddi life, make similar claims of tribal belonging. They argue tha…
Spiritual Branding and Corporate Profit in the Japanese Modern Mystery School
This article analyzes the irreducibility of spiritual branding, theologies of self-divinity and the business practices of a global esoteric company. Based on fieldwork with the Modern Mystery School (MMS) in Tokyo, I show how initiates, by purchasing an ascending syllabus of esoteric courses, recognize their own divinity and parlay this recognition into a spiritual brand that helps them market to their own clientele niche. The spiritual transform…
Business Spirits: Religion and Business as Co-constitutive Phenomena
What are the co-making processes that blur the boundaries between religion and economy? How can we move past misleading metaphors and analogies that reify the false distinction between sacred and secular or that frame religion as pure essences corrupted by financialization? Inspired by McLaughlin et al.’s (2020) call for increased attention to the “corporate form of religion,” we outline how common social structural and aspirational elements unde…
Corporate Religion and Spiritual Tourism at a Luxury Tibetan Buddhist Resort
This article analyses how spiritual tourism and the corporate form of religion are contributing to the rapid spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Vietnam. Specifically, we place the newly established Samten Hills, a Buddhist luxury resort, in two scholarly contexts. First: ecological discourses about Đà Lạt. Once a French hill station, Đà Lạt in the Central Highlands is famous for natural beauty and spiritual possibilities. Samten Hills is dedicated as …
Eingegangene Bücher
Tribal Dharamshala: Gaddi-Tibetan toponymic contestation and structures of history
Buddhism in the Now: Relaunching Contemporary Buddhism for a Changing World
Queer Vietnam
Inspired by the workshop “Sacred Canopies: LGBT+, Buddhism, and Economics in Vietnam,” hosted at the University of Copenhagen in November 2023, this introduction frames the themes of the special issue. It focuses on how Vietnam’s globalized market economy is shaping LGBTQI+ aspirations, mobilizations, personhoods, and spiritual experiences. It explores how the articles in this special issue shed new light on how LGBTQI+ people deal with exclusion…
Queer Practices in Tibeto-Vietnamese Vajrayana
This essay analyzes how young urban elites spiritualize their LGBTQI+ sexualities through the recent popularization of Tibetan Buddhism in Vietnam. New market conditions have commodified Tibetan Buddhism as an alternative to normative Mahayana practices. For the cohort in this study, a tension has emerged between the perceived inadequacies of state-run Vietnamese Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, the latter of which is experienced as individualizing…
From everyday encounters to geopolitical relations: The Tibetan diaspora in India
This article examines how Tibetan exile identity in India is shaped through the interplay of local social relations and broader geopolitical forces. It argues that Tibetan-Indian interactions have both everyday and geopolitical significance, influencing place-making, perceptions of India as Buddhism's homeland, and portrayals of Tibetans as exceptional refugees. After outlining continuities and changes in exile, we explore two case studies at dif…
Sociology (11 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 obras) · Caste (3 obras)