Religionising Fieldwork and Fieldworking Religion

Stefania Travagnin is Lecturer of East Asia Buddhism in the Department of History, Religious Studies Program, at Penn State University. She holds a PhD in Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her research and publications focus on Buddhism in twentieth-century China, religion in Taiwan, Buddhist women in East Asia, and religion and film. She is currently working on a book on the revival of the Mādhyamika school in twentieth-century China.

James Kapaló is Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland. He completed a PhD in the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and is the author of Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (Brill, 2011). His current research interests include contemporary orthodoxy, the academic discourse on "folk religion" and archaic forms of Christian prayer.