Elizabeth Lane Williams-Oerberg
Assistant professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S, Søndre Campus, Building: 10-4-28
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg is currently a Postdoc scholar and the Co-director of the newly established Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She has received funding for her Postdoc research from the Carlsberg Foundation and from the Danish Research Council and is part of a collaborative research project led by Trine Brox on “Buddhism, Business and Believers”. Her current research project is on spiritual tourism and the branding of Buddhism in Ladakh, India. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Aarhus University where, as part of a larger research project on ‘Buddhism and Modernity’, she wrote her PhD thesis Young Buddhism: Examining Ladakhi Buddhist Youth Engagements with Migration, Modernity and Morality in India, highlighting the particularly prominent role that youth play in forwarding contemporary transformations of Buddhism.
Selected publications
- Published
Buddhism, Business, and Economics
Brox, T. & Williams-Oerberg, E. L., Jan 2017, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. Jerryson, M. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 504-17 14 p. (Oxford Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Young Buddhism: Analyzing transnational currents of religion through ‘youth’
Williams-Oerberg, E. L., 2017, EASTSPIRIT: Transnational spirituality and religious circulation in East and West. Borup, J. & Fibiger, M. (eds.). Brill, p. 255-278 24 p. (International Studies in Religion and Society, Vol. 29).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
- Accepted/In press
“How can we learn about our culture while away from Ladakhi?”: Ladakhi Buddhist educational migrants negotiating education, modernization and identification in India
Williams-Oerberg, E. L., 2016, (Accepted/In press) Emerging Ladakh: Identity and Belonging in the Context of Increasing Changes. Schäfer, A. & Illmann, K. (eds.). Halle (Saale): Halle University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Educational Migration among Ladakhi Youth
Williams-Oerberg, E. L., 2015, Internal Migration in Contemporary India. Mishra, D. K. (ed.). Sage Publications India Pvt. LtdResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Young Buddhism: Examining Ladakhi Buddhist Youth Engagements with Migration, Modernity and Morality in India
Ørberg, E. L. W., 12 Sep 2014, Aarhus University.Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research
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Moderne uddannelse i et moralsk udkantsområde
Williams-Oerberg, E. L., 2014, In : Jordens Folk. 48, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Buddhism in the Modern World
Williams-Oerberg, E. L., 2012, In : Ethnos. 77, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research
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Migrantbuddhisme i Indien
Williams-Oerberg, E. L., 2012, In : Religion. 1, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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