Department of Religions and Philosophies
Reader in Chinese Buddhism
Centre of Buddhist Studies
Committee Member
School of History, Religions and Philosophies
Reader in Chinese Buddhism
I am a Reader in Chinese Buddhism at SOAS. I hold a BA and MA in Chinese Studies from Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and a PhD in the Study of Religion from SOAS. In the past, I worked in research universities in North America and Europe, and I have been visiting professors in several academic institutions in Asia (especially China and Taiwan) and Europe. For more details please see my website https://stefaniatravagnin.net/
Research interests
My research addresses religion (mostly Buddhist doctrine, institutions, and communities) in the twentieth and twenty-first century mainland China and Taiwan, and under the three main areas of (1) religion and Chinese society; (2) textual studies; (3) concepts and methods for the study of Chinese religions. For more details on my research interests, projects, grants, and publications, please see my website https://stefaniatravagnin.net/
Reception History and Limits of Interpretation: The Belgian Étienne Lamotte, Japanese Buddhologists, the Chinese monk Yinshun 印順 and the Formation of a Global ‘Da zhidu lun 大智度論 Scholarship’
Travagnin, Stefania, 2018, Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (1), 1, pp 248-277
Artificial Intelligence meets ‘The Three Teachings’: Chinese and Buddhist Perspectives
Travagnin, Stefania (2023). In: Campbell, Heidi A., (eds.) and Cheong, Pauline Hope, (eds.), Thinking Tools on AI, Religion and Culture. College Station, TX: Digital Religion Publications, pp 39-42
The (New) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Arguments from China and Taiwan
Travagnin, Stefania (2023). In: Meyer, Christian, (eds.) and Clart, Philip, (eds.), From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese. Leiden: Brill, pp 384-412
The three-aṅga theory in Master Yinshun’s 印順 scholarship: Assessing the state of Āgama studies in twentieth-century China
Travagnin, Stefania and Anālayo, Bhikkhu (2020). In: Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī, (ed.), Research on the Saṃyukta-āgama. Taipei: Dharma Drum Corporation, pp 933-1007
Travagnin, Stefania, Li, Gang, Grootenhuis, Harmen and Sterken, Arjan (2020). In: Jerryson, Michael, (ed.), Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp 131-175
Renjian Fojiao from Taiwan to South East Asia: Yinshun, Yanpei, and a ‘renjian fojiao network’?
Travagnin, Stefania (2020). In: 陳, 劍鍠, (ed.), The Practice of Humanistic Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong - Centre for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism, pp 467-500
From xue 學 to jiaoyu 教育: Conceptual understanding of ‘study’ and ‘education’ in modern Chinese Buddhism
Travagnin, Stefania (2020). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (eds.) and Scott, Gregory Adam, (eds.), Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions II: Intellectual History of Key Concepts. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 95-120
Travagnin, Stefania and Scott, Gregory Adam (2020). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (eds.) and Scott, Gregory Adam, (eds.), Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions II: Intellectual History of Key Concepts. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 1-10
Cyberactivities and “Civilized” Worship: Assessing Contexts and Modalities of Online Ritual Practices
Travagnin, Stefania (2019). In: Laliberté, André, (eds.), Fisher, Gareth, (eds.) and Ji, Zhe, (eds.), Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp 290-311
Epistemic Communities of Buddhist Scholarship in Modern China: Narratives and Paradigms
Travagnin, Stefania and Laliberté, André (2019). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (eds.) and Laliberté, André, (eds.), Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions II: State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 115-138
Travagnin, Stefania and Laliberté, André (2019). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (eds.) and Laliberté, André, (eds.), Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions I: State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 1-22
Travagnin, Stefania and Katz, Paul R. (2019). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (eds.) and Katz, Paul R., (eds.), Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions III: Key Concepts in Practice. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 1-10
Mapping New Systems of Community Networks: Discursive Identity, Cross-Strait Lineage Construction, and Funerary Sacred Space in Taiwanese Buddhism
Travagnin, Stefania (2018). In: Poceski, Mario, (ed.), Communities of memory and interpretation : reimagining and reinventing the past in East Asian Buddhism. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, pp 177-217
Dharma in Motion Pictures: Buddhist Cartoons and Documentaries in Contemporary Taiwan
Travagnin, Stefania (2016). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (ed.), Religion and Media in China Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. New York and London: Routledge, pp 225-240
Charting Religion and Media in Taiwan: Media Expressions of Faith as (Pluri)Identity Markers in the Democratization Era
Travagnin, Stefania (2016). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (ed.), Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. New York and London: Routledge, pp 53-68
Introduction: Religion and Media in China : Volume Objectives, Challenges, and Themes
Travagnin, Stefania (2016). In: Travagnin, Stefania, (ed.), Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. New York and London: Routledge, pp 1-16
Travagnin, Stefania (2016). In: Samuels, Jeffrey, (eds.), McDaniel, Justin Thomas, (eds.) and Rowe, Mark Michael, (eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp 170-173
Travagnin, Stefania (2016). In: Samuels, Jeffrey, (eds.), McDaniel, Justin Thomas, (eds.) and Rowe, Mark Michael, (eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp 91-94
Master Yinshun and Buddhist Nuns in/for the Human Realm: Shift and Continuity From Theory to Practice of renjian fojiao in Contemporary Taiwan
Travagnin, Stefania (2007). In: Storm, Carsten, (eds.) and Harrison, Mark, (eds.), The Margins of Becoming: Identity and Culture in Taiwan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 83-100
