Pamela Winfield

Pamela Winfield was named to the Board of Directors of the Association of Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL) this summer. This is the governing board that has ultimate responsibility for all the activity of ARIL, which includes the publication of CrossCurrents journal, an annual summer research colloquium in New York as well as occasional programs made possible by additional fund raising activity.

Pamela Winfield published a book review of Fabio Rambelli’s Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Religion (Stanford University Press, 2007) in July, 2010. The book holds interest for students and scholars of Japanese religion, history, material culture, environmental studies and ritual studies.

Pamela Winfield presented a paper on "Ito Shinjo’s Path of Oneness: The Life and Legacy of an Ambiguous Ajari” at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Philadelphia on March 25, 2010.