{"id":356,"date":"2023-05-22T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=356"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T21:25:11","slug":"transpacific-re-orientations-religion-spirituality-and-the-invisible-connections-between-asia-and-the-americas-january-23-24-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/transpacific-re-orientations-religion-spirituality-and-the-invisible-connections-between-asia-and-the-americas-january-23-24-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Transpacific Re-Orientations Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Transpacific Re-Orientations Conference: Religion, Spirituality and the Invisible Connections Between Asia and the Americas January 23-24, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The emerging importance of Transpacific connections has forced us to re-calibrate our bearings and re-examine the established binaries of East and West, Orientalism and Occidentalism.\u00a0 In the age of air travel, we head to the west from North America in order to end up in the east.\u00a0 Besides scrambling familiar geographical coordinates, the rise of many Asian countries is also disturbing even the newer polarities of the global North and global South.\u00a0 This conference seeks to explore how ideas of religion and spirituality have been re-oriented in the 21st<\/sup> century, and to document the new combinations that have emerged.<\/p>\n

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A new concept of Transpacific religion and spirituality looks at ways in which many new religious and spiritual phenomenon are simultaneously produced on both sides of the Pacific, through a form of dialogue which is both cosmopolitan and localized.\u00a0 We will look at groups which define themselves as \u201creligions\u201d as well as those that prefer to be called \u201cspiritualities\u201d, and focus on the ways in which the categories of the spiritual and the secular are constructed through an interactive process that moves between the two sides of the world\u2019s largest ocean .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Front row: Michael Matsatugu, Michiro Ama, Levi McLaughlin, Duncan Williams, Lon Kurashige
\nSecond row: Allison Truitt, Lori Meeks, Janet Hoskins, Nancy Stalker, Deirdre De la Cruz, Mayfair Yang, Tomoe Moriya
\nBack row: Julia Huang, Jonathan Lee, Alexander Soucy, Prasenjit Duara, Rongdao Lai, Jean De Bernardi
\nNot pictured: Nile Green, Vinay Lal.<\/p>\n

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Friday and Saturday, January 23-24 2015<\/p>\n

Sponsored by a grant from the Luce Foundation to the Center for Transpacific Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Religion and Culture. The conference is hosted by USC\u2019s Center for International Studies.<\/p>\n

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