Episode 3: Interview with Jeff Wilson




The Journal of Southern Religion Podcast show

Summary: <p>In this podcast, <a href="http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/phil/relig/relig_fac.htm">Michael Pasquier</a> speaks with <a href="http://artsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~jewilson/">Jeff Wilson</a> about his new book, <em><a href="http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=2788">Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South</a></em>. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. During this conversation, Wilson talks about his ethnographic and historical study of a Buddhist community in Richmond, Virginia. He provides unique insight into the pluralistic dimensions of religion in the contemporary South.</p>