Christian Konrad Wedemeyer, FRAS (born 1969) is an American scholar and political and social activist. He is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. In February 2008, he was elected to a four-year term as Committeeman for the 5th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois (Green Party).

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  • Christian Konrad Wedemeyer, FRAS (born 1969) is an American scholar and political and social activist. He is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. In February 2008, he was elected to a four-year term as Committeeman for the 5th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois (Green Party). He is currently Co-chair of the Hyde Park Green Party, a local chapter of the Illinois Green Party, Green Party of the United States. His work within the field of the history of religions has largely been concerned with the history, literature, and ritual of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to historical and philological studies of Sanskrit and Tibetan religious literature, he has written on the historiography of Esoteric Buddhism and its antinomianism currents, textual criticism and strategies of legitimating authority in classical Tibetan scholasticism, and the semiology of esoteric Buddhist ritual. He is an editor of the journal History of Religions, Buddhism editor for Religious Studies Review (Blackwell), serves on the editorial boards of, and acts in a consulting capacity for a number of academic journals and presses. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2000, and elected to membership in the American Society for the Study of Religion in 2012. He is member (and former officer) of the American Oriental Society; and a member of the American Academy of Religion, the International Association for Tibetan Studies, the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and the North American Association for the Study of Religion. In 2010, he was elected to a three-year term as Co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion. In 2010-11 he was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has consulted for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CNN, and the United States Department of Justice. He is listed in several Marquis' Who's Who editions, including Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders.
  • Christian Konrad Wedemeyer is een Amerikaans wetenschapper tibetologie en boeddhologie en schrijver voor verschillende wetenschappelijke tijdschriften op het gebied van het boeddhisme, waaronder Religious Studies Review. Hij behaalde zijn bachelorgraad in 1991 aan de Wesleyan-universiteit en zijn master (1994 M.A. en 1995 Ph. M) en Ph. D (1999) aan de Columbia-universiteit bij Robert Thurman. Hij is assistent-professor godsdienstgeschiedenis aan de University of Chicago Divinity School aan de Universiteit van Chicago. Hij was gastdocent aan verschillende universiteiten, waaronder de Universiteit van Kopenhagen en de Columbia-universiteit. Binnen het veld van de godsdienstgeschiedenis heeft hij zich vooral bezig gehouden met geschiedenis, literatuur en de rituelen van het Indiaas en Tibetaans boeddhisme. Verder studeerde hij Sanskriet en Tibetaanse religieuze literatuur. Hij schreef een historiografie over het Esoterisch boeddhisme.
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  • Christian Konrad Wedemeyer is een Amerikaans wetenschapper tibetologie en boeddhologie en schrijver voor verschillende wetenschappelijke tijdschriften op het gebied van het boeddhisme, waaronder Religious Studies Review. Hij behaalde zijn bachelorgraad in 1991 aan de Wesleyan-universiteit en zijn master (1994 M.A. en 1995 Ph. M) en Ph. D (1999) aan de Columbia-universiteit bij Robert Thurman.
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