Dr. Christopher Jensen

Biography

Christopher Jensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Carleton University. He completed his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Saskatchewan and earned his Ph.D. from McMaster University, focusing on Chinese religions and Buddhism. His dissertation research concentrated on dreams in Chinese Buddhist hagiographies, particularly the sixth and seventh-century Biographies of Eminent Monks. Dr. Jensen has a keen interest in Buddhist meditation and mindfulness in contemporary North America, and he is excited to work with students on this subject in the coming years. His scholarly interests extend to the role of dreams in religious cultures, hagiography, and the embodied phenomenon of religion, such as childhood understandings and bodily impairments. He has published various works in the field, including articles on rhetorical uses of exemplary child tropes in Buddhist literature and theoretical reflections on religious practices among eminent monks.

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