Faculty Member, Religious Studies
Assistant Professor
Thesis Title: Treasures of the Buddha: Imagining Death and Life in Contemporary Cambodia
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Steven Collins
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About
Erik Davis completed his Ph.D. at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 2009. He is an alumnus of the University of Washington-Seattle (MA), and Macalester College (BA). An anthropologist of religion, his dissertation work focused on funeral and memorial practices in contemporary Cambodian Buddhism.
He has published articles on death, funerals, and rebirth in contemporary Cambodian religion. His ongoing interests continue to include these topics, but are moving additional to include questions of the construction of modernity in Southeast Asia and the relationship between ritual and ecology (specifically in different modes of foodgetting).
At Macalester College, he teaches classes which introduce the religions of Asia, Buddhism, and on concepts of comparative interest between religious traditions (ritual, pilgrimage, etc.).
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