Mrs Pounds and Mrs Pfoundes

In this short essay written for Professor Ursula King's Festschrift I reflect on the general problem of researching and recovering events and individuals previously ‘lost' to historians of religions, taking as my example recent collaborative research into forgotten early Irish Buddhists. I...

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1. VerfasserIn: Bocking, Brian 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: British Association for the Study of Religions [2018]
In: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Jahr: 2017, Band: 19, Seiten: 97-106
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Pfoundes, C. 1840-1907 / Ireland / Buddhism
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
BL Buddhismus
KBF Britische Inseln
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Zusammenfassung:In this short essay written for Professor Ursula King's Festschrift I reflect on the general problem of researching and recovering events and individuals previously ‘lost' to historians of religions, taking as my example recent collaborative research into forgotten early Irish Buddhists. I consider also the problems of researching other traditionally under-represented figures, including many women; for example, the wife (Rosa Alice Hill) and mother (Caroline Pounds) of the Irish Buddhist Charles Pfoundes. In the second and rather more speculative part of the essay I look at some ways in which increasingly sophisticated and increasingly accessible technological developments, allied with growing ‘crowd' participation in the provision and analysis of historical data, might in future enable us to discover far more than we currently can about events and individuals in the past.
ISSN:2516-6379
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v19i0.19