Recent & Forthcoming Publications
Forthcoming
2022 Fabricating Authenticity (Edited Volume). (Co-editing with A. Alexander). Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. (Forthcoming)
2021 Discourses of Veganism, Dinosaurs, & Religion: Legitimizing the Story of Us. Bulletin for the Study of Religion. (Forthcoming Essay)
2022 Fabricating Authentic Tacos. In J.W.M. Ellsworth and A. Alexander (Eds.), Fabricating Authenticity. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. (Forthcoming)
Published
2020 Glocalization in Buddhist Food Ventures on a Small Canadian Island. In J. Harding, V. Hori, A. Soucy, and J. Main (Eds.), Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. (Forthcoming)
2019 “Religion” is the Opium of the Scholar (Response Chapter). In, Leslie Dorrough Smith (Ed.), The Architecture of the Academy: Processes, Institutions, and Power in the Academic Study of Religion. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.
2019 Selling Diversity, Unity & Social Justice (2 Part Series). (March 15 & 16). Culture on the Edge (A Peer Reviewed Blog). https://edge.ua.edu/ellsworth/selling-diversity-unity-social-justice-part-i/
2018 Review: Jiemin Bao. (2015). Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley (Temple University Press), Studies in Religion Volume 47 (4). 621-622.
2018 Marketing the Authentic Taco (May 1, 2018). Culture on the Edge (A Peer Reviewed Blog).
2018 A Report on “The Dharma and the Dime” From Washington DC. Co-authored with Elizabeth Williams Oerberg. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies, (13), 161-167.
2017 Review of the book Varieties of Religious Invention. Founders and Their Functions in History, edited by Patrick Gray. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 46(3), 465-476.
2017 Articulating Dinosaurs & Religions (The Story of Us). (October 13, 2017). Culture on the Edge (A Peer Reviewed Blog).
2017 I’m a Soon-to-be Dad (Response Chapter). In, Russell T. McCutcheon (Ed.), Fabricating Identities. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. (Forthcoming)
2017 Are there any religions that do not have official leaders. In, Aaron W. Hughes & Russell T. McCutcheon (Eds.), Religion in 5 Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox.
2017 Is being a vegetarian a religious thing for some people? In, Aaron W. Hughes & Russell T. McCutcheon (Eds.), Religion in 5 Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox.
2017 Are Eastern religions as connected to violence as Western religions seem to be In, Aaron W. Hughes & Russell T. McCutcheon (Eds.), Religion in 5 Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox.
2017 Am I a Buddhist because I am Vegetarian? : Teaching at the Intersections of Religion & Food. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 46 (2).
2017 Got Legit Milk. (March 2, 2017). Culture on the Edge (A Peer Reviewed Blog).
2017 Manufacturing Fast Food Founders. (February 28, 2017). Culture on the Edge (A Peer Reviewed Blog).
2017 Is Tom Brady Vegan, Vegetarian, or Just Another Ominvore?. (February 20, 2017). Culture on the Edge (A Peer Reviewed Blog).
Recent Presentations (Conferences, Workshops, & Public Talks)
2019 Legitimizing Commodities, Legitimizing Values: Discourses of Buddhism, Organics, & Social Enterprises. Panel: The Climate of Commodity Discourses: Values We Produce, Market, And Consume (Part 1 & 2), American Anthropological Association & Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver, BC.
2019 Co-organizer & Co-Chair. Panel: The Climate of Commodity Discourses: Values We Produce, Market, And Consume (Part 1 & 2), American Anthropological Association & Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver, BC.
2018 Value(s) in Action: Commodification, Social Enterprises, & Marketing as Acts of Legitimation. Value, Values and Religion In the Contemporary World, Workshop at the Center for the Contemporary Buddhist Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017 Balancing Value and Values: Buddhist Social Economic Enterprises on Prince Edward Island. Panel: The Dharma and the Dime: Ethics and Economics in the Anthropology of Buddhism, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2017 “Religion” is the Opium of the Scholar. Panel – The Things We Study When We Study Religion: The Scholar, North American Association for the Study of Religion, Boston, MA.
2017 “Rolls of Love”: Food Insecurity, Vulnerable Populations, and Buddhist Food Programs. Panel: Anthropology of Religion, American Academy of Religion Conference, Boston, MA.
2017 The Spectrum of Buddhism in North America: Case Studies from a Small Island (Guest Lecture). University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana. November 8, 2017.
2017 Kapital 150: The Relevance of Marx an Introduction. Kapital 150: Symposium on the Relevance of Marx Today. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. November 3, 2017.
2017 Food for Thought: Socially Engaged Buddhism, Social Frictions, & the Economy. Religious Studies Seminar Series. Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. January 27, 2017.
2016 Integration, Acceptance, and The Market: Buddhist Food Projects on Prince Edward Island, Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West. University of British Columbia.
2016 Breaking Corn and Forging Solidarities: “Come From Away” Buddhist Food Sharing Initiatives, Solidarit(i)es Conference – CASCA and SANA 2016, Dalhousie University, Halifax: Nova Scotia.
2015 Reinvigorating the market: Taiwanese Buddhist ethical food projects on Prince Edward Island. Presentation: Buddhism in the West Panel, American Academy of Religion Conference, Atlanta: Georgia.
2015 Food Practices Panel & Presentation: Cross-cultural Communions: Eating, Dialoguing and the Formation of Transnational Communities Through Food. Ways of Knowing Conference, Harvard University. Boston: Massachusetts.
2015 Presider: Ritual Practices Panel. Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Conference, University of Ottawa.
2015 Sustaining Where the Buffalo Roam: The Emergence of Taiwanese Buddhism on Prince Edward Island. Roundtable: Transnational Religious Identity and Practice in North America, at the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Conference, University of Ottawa.
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