Pacific World Journal
Published annually, with generous support from BDK America, the Pacific World is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal of research on contemporary issues—intellectual, academic, and social—in Buddhism writ large.
Research Programs and Publications
In addition to their individual research projects, many IBS faculty are engaged in collaborative projects, bringing scholars from other institutions to Berkeley to conduct research or present at public conferences or symposia.Whereas some projects are focused on a single theme or topic, such as our
Henry Luce Foundation supported program on Public Theologies of Technology and Presence, others are ongoing and organized into formal research centers such as the Center for Contemporary Shin Buddhist Studies.
Regardless of their scope, such projects give life to the academic study of Buddhism and create public forums for our work to reach outside our community.
Public Theologies of Technology and Presence
The Public Theologies of Technology and Presence program gathers and funds a cohort of leading scholars of religion, theologians, and journalists for their work addressing a pressing concern of contemporary life: The ways in which technologies reshape human relationships and alter how people are or are not “present” with each other. The three-year program launched in 2018 and is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Publications
Through our partnership with the University of Hawai’i Press, IBS produces two academic book series in Pure Land Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies.
