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Buddhist scholar David Loy discussed how that religious tradition offers a fresh spiritual perspective on consumerism and ecology during a March 18 lecture at Vanderbilt University.
Loy holds the Besl Family Chair of Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University.
The lecture served as both the spring lecture of Vanderbilt’s Center for the Study of Religion and Culture and Vanderbilt Divinity School’s annual Howard L. Harrod Lecture.
Loy is a proponent of the Buddhist world view to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. His latest book is Money, Sex, War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution.
The CSRC Annual Spring Lecture brings to campus scholars doing creative and distinguished work at the intersections of religion and culture. Howard L. Harrod was the Oberlin Alumni Professor of Social Ethics and Sociology of Religion at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He taught for more than 30 years at Vanderbilt, and the annual Howard L. Harrod lecture was established to honor his distinguished legacy of scholarship and university service.
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