Monthly Archives: February 2017
Reflections on Tibetan Tantric Rituals Connected with Healing – Dr Cathy Cantwell (INCISE Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Critical Suicidology 2.0 – Call for Papers
Critical Suicidology Conference
29 June – 2 July 2017
At Canterbury Christ Church University (in collaboration with INCISE)
Queering the Caymans – Dr Leo Raznovich (INCISE Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Islam & Gender in Yemen – Tanya Halldórsdóttir – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
ILBF 2016 – ‘Mindfulness in action: Buddhist Responses to Capitalism and Consumerism’ by B. Scherer & J. Waistell
Mindfulness in action: Buddhist Responses to Capitalism and Consumerism
Prof. Bee Scherer, PhD (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Mr. Jeff Waistell (Oxford Brookes University)
This presentation engages with Buddhist critiques of capitalism and consumerism; and it challenges the capitalist appropriations of Buddhist techniques. Scherer & Waistell show how Buddhist modernism and Marxism/socialism can align, and how Engaged Buddhism spawns egalitarian, socially revolutionary impulses for sustainability and ecological responsibility within the framework of Buddhist thought and mindfulness traditions.
The example of the Thai Asoke community exemplifies Buddhist communal mindfulness-in-action and shows how communal principles can operate in such work-based communities.
Also at laybuddhistforum.wordpress.com