Christian K. Wedemeyer
| Christian K. Wedemeyer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 47–48) Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | History of Religions, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Studies |
| Institutions |
University of Chicago University of Copenhagen Columbia University |
| Alma mater |
Columbia University Wesleyan University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert A. F. Thurman |
| Doctoral students | Anne Mocko |
| Influences |
Hayden White Roland Barthes J.H. Stone II Jonathan Z. Smith Matthew Kapstein Janet Gyatso David Seyfort Ruegg Louis de la Vallée Poussin |
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Christian Konrad Wedemeyer, FRAS (born 1969) is an American scholar and political and social activist.
He is Associate Professor of the History of Religions and Chair of the History of Religions Area at the Divinity School, an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Assistant Marshal of the University of Chicago.
In February 2008, he was elected to a four-year term as Committeeman for the 5th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois (Green Party); and he was reappointed for a second term in 2012. In June 2014, he was elected Secretary of the Cook County Green Party. From 2007 until 2011, he was co-chair of the Hyde Park Green Party, a local chapter of the Illinois Green Party, Green Party of the United States.
His work within the field of the history of religions has largely been concerned with the history, literature, and ritual of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to historical and philological studies of Sanskrit and Tibetan religious literature, he has written on the historiography of Esoteric Buddhism and its antinomianism currents, textual criticism and strategies of legitimating authority in classical Tibetan scholasticism, and the semiology of esoteric Buddhist ritual.
He is an editor of the journal History of Religions, former Buddhism editor for Religious Studies Review (Blackwell), and serves on the editorial boards of, and acts in a consulting capacity for a number of academic journals and presses.
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