Burkhard Scherer

Burkhard Scherer (born May 21, 1971 ) is a German classical philologist , Indologist and historian of religion .

Life

After studying Classical Philology and Indology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , Scherer received his doctorate in 2002 from the Dutch University of Groningen with a study on ancient literature and mythology. Relevant publications on Buddhism and the world religions followed. Since 2003 he has been working at Canterbury Christ Church University in Great Britain, meanwhile as Professor of Comparative Religious Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies . His main research interests are the narrative dimension of religions, religion and gender as well as Indian philosophy .

Scherer is a practicing Buddhist in the Tibetan Karma Kagyu tradition, is a student of the 17th Karmapa and teaches in Buddhist centers worldwide. In his research he also deals critically with his own tradition, u. a. with the Diamond Way by Lama Ole Nydahl .

He is co-editor of the academic journal Religion & Gender and editor of the book series Queerings Paradigms ( Peter Lang ).

Fonts

• (Ed.) Meditation texts of Buddhism . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-06404-3 .
• (Ed. with Matthew Ball) Queering Paradigms II: Interrogating Agendas . Peter Lang, New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0295-1 .
• (Ed.) Queering Paradigms . Peter Lang, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-3-03911-970-7 .
• (Ed. with Ludger Scherer) Myth of Helena: Texts from Homer to Luciano De Crescenzo . Reclam, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-020163-3 .
• Myth, Catalog, and Prophecy. Studies on the Argonautics of Apollonios Rhodios . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-515-08808-3 .
• Buddhism: Everything You Need to Know . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3-579-06412-6 (with a foreword by the Dalai Lama); 2nd revised edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-06412-3 .
• 108 questions over Boeddhisme . Milarepa, Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-805823-6-0 .
• The world religions: Central themes in comparison . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2003, ISBN 3-579-05452-X .
• Het Boeddha basisboekje . Milarepa, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 90-805823-4-4 .
• 99 questions about Buddhism . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2002, ISBN 3-579-01202-9 .
• Buddha . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 3-579-00657-6 .
• Buddhist wisdom . Kiefel, Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-579-05643-3 .

Selected articles and book chapters

• “Queer Voices, Social Media and Neo-Orthodox Dharma: A Case Study” in O'Mara, Kathleen and Morrish, Liz (eds.) Queering Paradigms, Vol. 3: Bio-Politics, Place, and Representations. Oxford: Peter Lang 2013, pp. 145-155.
• "Globalizing Tibetan Buddhism: Modernism and Neo-Orthodoxy in Contemporary Karma bKa 'brgyud Organizations." Contemporary Buddhism 13 (2012), 125-137.
• “Nāgārjuna on Temporary Happiness and Liberation: Readings of the Ratnāvalī in India, China, and Tibet” in Sharma, Anita (ed.), Buddhism in East Asia. Delhi: Vidyanidhi Publishers 2012, pp. 125-139.
• “Vertical hierarchy and archaic sacredness: On the mythopoësis of the foot.” Paragrana: International Journal of Historical Anthropology 21.1 (2012), pp. 129-143.
• “Macho Buddhism: Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way” Religion and Gender 1, pp. 85-103, http://www.religionandgender.org/index.php/rg/article/view/17
• "Interpreting the Diamond Way: Contemporary Convert Buddhism in Transition." Journal of Global Buddhism 10, pp. 17-48, http://www.globalbuddhism.org/10/scherer09.pdf
• "Kambala's Ālokamāla and the Perils of Philology." Buddhist Studies Review 2006.2, pp. 121-126.
• "Gender transformed and meta-gendered enlightenment: Reading Buddhist narratives as paradigms of inclusiveness." Revista de Estudos da Religião - REVER 6.3 (2006), pp. 65-76, http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv3_2006/t_scherer.htm .
• “A Neo-Orthodox Tradition in Transition: Lama Ole Nydahl and the Diamond Way” 2018 (extended version of “A Neo-orthodox Buddhist Movement in Transition: The Diamond Way”, in E. Gallagher (Ed.) 2017. Visioning New and Minority Religions: Projecting the Future. London: Routledge, pp. 156–165), available online at https://info-buddhismus.de/Lama_Ole_Nydahl-Diamantweg-Buddhismus_Bee-Scherer.html

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkhard Scherer in the catalog of the German National Library
• B. Scherer on the Canterbury Christ Church University website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scherer, Burkhard, 1971- , authority record , Library of Congress , accessed on 29 December 2012 found.
2. ↑ ^{a b} B. Scherer on the Canterbury Christ Church University website ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 16, 2013. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Burkhard Scherer ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Authors A – Z, Herder Verlag website , accessed December 29, 2012.  
4. ^ Editorial Team , Religion & Gender website , accessed November 19, 2012.
5. ↑ Scherer Burkhard: Queering Paradigms , information on the series, website of the publisher Peter Lang , accessed on December 29, 2012.