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Pascale Engelmajer

Professor of Religious Studies262.650.4952pengelma@carrollu.edu
Office: South Berg 208

TEACHES IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM(S)

Religious Studies

Education

  • University of Bristol, Ph.D.
  • University of Bristol, M.A.
  • Columbia University, M.I.A.
  • Columbia University, B.A.

Areas of Specialization

Pāli Buddhism; Women and Buddhism; Gender and Religion; Mothers, Motherhood and Mothering and Religion; Gender in Pāli narratives; food giving in Buddhism; Mindfulness.

Scholarly and Professional Achievements

Published Books

365 Ways to Live Mindfully, John Murray Press, 2023.

Women in Pali Buddhism: Walking the Spiritual Path in Mutual Dependence. Critical Studies in Buddhism series, Routledge, 2015.

Buddhism: All That Matters. Hodder and Stoughton, 2014.

Selected Published Articles and Book Chapters:

‘Riding the Wave rather than Waving Off: The Academic Study of Religions and Matricentric Feminism’ (with Florence Pasche Guignard) in Andrea O’Reilly, Victoria Bailey, and Fiona Joy Green (eds.) The Mother Wave: Matricentric Feminism as Theory, Activism, and Practice. Demeter Press, forthcoming.

'La maternité dans le canon bouddhiste pāli: choix et chemins’, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2023, Vol. 52(1): 9-24.

‘Like a Mother Her Only Child: Mothering in the Pali Canon’, Open Theology, 2020; 6: 88–103.

‘Buddhist Women and Food Giing to Monks’ in Usha Sanyal and Nita Kumar (eds.), Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices. Bloomsbury, 2020.

‘The Mothering Path as Buddhist Path: Narraves in the Pāli canon’ in Pedrucci, G (ed), Mothering(s) and Religions: Normative Perspectives and Individual Appropriations. A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approach from Antiquity to the Present, Proceedings of the Internaonal Workshop held at Max-Weber-Kolleg (University of Erfurt), July 16-17, 2019, Scienze e Letere, 2020.

‘Breast-milk and Dhamma-milk: Giving Life, Giving the Dhamma’ in G. Pedrucci (ed.), Breastfeeding(s) and Religions: Normative Prescriptions and Individual Appropriation of Them. A cross-cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective from Antiquity to the Present. Proceedings of the Internaonal Workshop held at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (University of Erfurt), July 11-12, 2018, Scienze e Letere, 2019.

‘Mothering the Buddha: Mahāmāyā’s Spiritual Career’ in Giulia Pedrucci, Marianna Scapini and Florence Pasche-Guignard (eds.), Motherhood and Polytheisms, Patron, June 2017.

‘Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological Path’ in Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan (eds.), Motherhood in the Ancient World, Palgrave, April 2017.

'The Gendered Cost of the Spiritual Debt in Contemporary Thailand' (co-author with Misa Izuhara) in Ageing and Intergenerational Relations: New Patterns of Reciprocity. Policy Press: Ageing and Lifecourse Series, 2010.

'Perfect or Perfecting? Reflections on the Arahant in the Nikayas' in Contemporary Buddhism, vol. 4, no. 1, May 2003; Routledge.

Invited Presentations

Women in early Pāli Buddhism: Status, Roles & Paths, Presentation; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes on Women in Buddhism, Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, June 6, 2023 (invited).

Women in Buddhism, Panel; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes on Women in Buddhism, Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, June 9, 2023 (invited).

Une queson de choix: La maternité dans le canon bouddhiste pāli, Colloque Maternités et figures maternelles dans les traditions religieuses de l'Asie du Sud, Université-Laval, Québec, Canada, February 24, 2022 (invited).

La maternité dans le canon bouddhiste pāli: une approche « matricentrique », Colloque Maternités mystiques, spirituelles, ascétiques, monastiques : Explorations à l'intersection du religieux et du maternel, Université-Laval, Québec, Canada, January 13, 2021. https://www.colloquemater.sr.ulaval.ca/resumes-des-conferences/maternite-et-maternage-dans-le-bouddhisme-ancien-pali

Honors and Awards

  • AAR International Research Collaborative Grant 2021, Beyond Mother Goddesses: New Directions for International Scholarship on Motherhood in Religious Studies (beyondmg.study/team-equipe/)
  • ACLS/Ho Family Foundation Workshop for College Teachers in Theravada Buddhist Studies, Tempe, AZ, July 31 to August 6, 2016
  • University of Bristol BIRTHA Postgraduate Award, 2010
  • University of Bristol Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Scholarship Award, 2003
  • Edward Conze Memorial Prize for excellence in Buddhist Studies Award, 2003

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