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Bartles-Smith, Andrew, Crosby, Kate, Harvey, Peter, Tilakaratne, Asanga, Ratheiser, Daniel, Trew, Noel Maurer, Travagnin, Stefania, Harris, Elizabeth J., Deegalle, Mahinda and Kilby, Christina A., eds. (2023) Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law. London: Routledge.

Bartles-Smith, Andrew, Crosby, Kate, Harvey, Peter, Tilakaratne, Asanga, Ratheiser, Daniel, Trew, Noel Maurer, Travagnin, Stefania, Harris, Elizabeth J., Deegalle, Mahinda and Kilby, Christina, eds. (2021) Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law. Abingdon: Routledge. (Contemporary Buddhism, Vol. 22, issue no.1-2)

Travagnin, Stefania and Scott, Gregory Adam, eds. (2020) Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions II: Intellectual History of Key Concepts. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania and Laliberté, André, eds. (2019) Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions I: State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania and Katz, Paul R., eds. (2019) Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions III: Key Concepts in Practice. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania, ed. (2016) Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. New York and London: Routledge. (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

Book Chapters

Travagnin, Stefania (2023) 'Artificial Intelligence meets ‘The Three Teachings’: Chinese and Buddhist Perspectives.' In: Campbell, Heidi A. and Cheong, Pauline Hope, (eds.), Thinking Tools on AI, Religion and Culture. College Station, TX: Digital Religion Publications, pp. 39-42.

Travagnin, Stefania (2023) 'The (New) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Arguments from China and Taiwan.' In: Meyer, Christian and Clart, Philip, (eds.), From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese. Leiden: Brill, pp. 384-412. (Religion in Chinese societies)

Travagnin, Stefania (2020) '中國與臺灣佛教界的五四因緣：以1910-1930年代為考察重點.' In: 呂, 妙芬 and 康豹, Paul R. Katz, (eds.), 五四運動與中國宗教的調適與發展. Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp. 547-577.

Travagnin, Stefania and Anālayo, Bhikkhu (2020) 'The three-aṅga theory in Master Yinshun’s 印順 scholarship: Assessing the state of Āgama studies in twentieth-century China.' In: Dhammadinnā, Bhikkhunī, (ed.), Research on the Saṃyukta-āgama. Taipei: Dharma Drum Corporation, pp. 933-1007. (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Research Series)

Travagnin, Stefania, Li, Gang, Grootenhuis, Harmen and Sterken, Arjan (2020) 'Chinese Religion and Violence.' In: Jerryson, Michael, (ed.), Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp. 131-175.

Travagnin, Stefania (2020) 'Renjian Fojiao from Taiwan to South East Asia: Yinshun, Yanpei, and a ‘renjian fojiao network’?' 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.

Travagnin, Stefania (2020) 'From xue 學 to jiaoyu 教育: Conceptual understanding of ‘study’ and ‘education’ in modern Chinese Buddhism.' In: Travagnin, Stefania 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. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania and Scott, Gregory Adam (2020) 'Introduction.' In: Travagnin, Stefania 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. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania (2019) 'Cyberactivities and “Civilized” Worship: Assessing Contexts and Modalities of Online Ritual Practices.' In: Laliberté, André, Fisher, Gareth and Ji, Zhe, (eds.), Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 290-311.

Travagnin, Stefania and Laliberté, André (2019) 'Epistemic Communities of Buddhist Scholarship in Modern China: Narratives and Paradigms.' In: Travagnin, Stefania 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. (Religion and society)

Travagnin, Stefania and Laliberté, André (2019) 'Introduction.' In: Travagnin, Stefania 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. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania and Katz, Paul R. (2019) 'Introduction.' In: Travagnin, Stefania 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. (Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania (2018) 'A Harmonious Plurality of ‘Religious’ Expressions: Theories and Case Studies from the Chinese Practice of (Religious) Diversity.' In: Kühle, Lene, Borup, Jørn and Hoverd, William, (eds.), The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity. Leiden: Brill, pp. 147-172. (International Studies in Religion and Society)

Travagnin, Stefania (2018) 'Mapping New Systems of Community Networks: Discursive Identity, Cross-Strait Lineage Construction, and Funerary Sacred Space in Taiwanese Buddhism.' 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. (Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series)

Travagnin, Stefania (2017) 'Yin and Yang Dynamics and the Concept of Kong: Understanding "Becoming" and "Being" in Chinese Philosophy and Religions.' In: Congiunti, Lorella, Formica, Giambattista and Ndreca, Ardian, (eds.), Oltre l'individualismo: Relazioni e relazionalità per ripensare l'identità. Rome: Urbaniana University Press, pp. 475-490. (Grandi Opere)

Travagnin, Stefania (2016) 'Charting Religion and Media in Taiwan: Media Expressions of Faith as (Pluri)Identity Markers in the Democratization Era.' 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. (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

Travagnin, Stefania (2016) 'Dharma in Motion Pictures: Buddhist Cartoons and Documentaries in Contemporary Taiwan.' 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. (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

Travagnin, Stefania (2016) 'Introduction: Religion and Media in China : Volume Objectives, Challenges, and Themes.' 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. (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

Travagnin, Stefania (2016) 'Dingkong – the blogger monk in Southern China.' In: Samuels, Jeffrey, McDaniel, Justin Thomas and Rowe, Mark Michael, (eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 170-173.

Travagnin, Stefania (2016) 'Houguan – a modern educator in Taiwan.' In: Samuels, Jeffrey, McDaniel, Justin Thomas and Rowe, Mark Michael, (eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 91-94.

Travagnin, Stefania (2007) 'Master Yinshun and Buddhist Nuns in/for the Human Realm: Shift and Continuity From Theory to Practice of renjian fojiao in Contemporary Taiwan.' In: Storm, Carsten and Harrison, Mark, (eds.), The Margins of Becoming: Identity and Culture in Taiwan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 83-100.

Travagnin, Stefania (2004) 'Ven. Miaoqing and Yuantong Chan Nunnery: A New Beginning for Monastic Women in Taiwan.' In: Tsomo, Karma Lekshe, (ed.), Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Women’s Voices Across Generations. Taipei: Yuanquan Press, pp. 83-96.

Journal Article

Travagnin, Stefania (2024) 'Editorial.' Contemporary Buddhism, 24 (1/2). pp. 1-2.

Travagnin, Stefania (2023) 'Editorial.' Contemporary Buddhism, 23 (1/2). p. 1.

Travagnin, Stefania (2023) 'Fostering Education Beyond the Classroom: Examples from Republican Buddhism and their Legacy Today.' Yin-Cheng Journal of Contemporary Buddhism, 1 (1). pp. 100-132.

Travagnin, Stefania (2023) 'Mt. Emei 峨眉山.' Database of Religious History.

Travagnin, Stefania (2022) 'Humanistic Buddhism (Rensheng Fojiao 人生佛教‎ / Renjian Fojiao 人間佛教‎).' Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.

Travagnin, Stefania (2022) '汉传佛教多元化图景中边缘女性的经验：近现代四川比丘尼的隐形和显形.' 西南民族大学学报（人文社科版）, 43 (3). pp. 50-56.

Travagnin, Stefania (2021) 'Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative.' Asia Major, 34 (2). pp. 127-179.

Travagnin, Stefania (2021) 'Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism.' Journal of Chinese Religions, 49 (2). pp. 191-240.

Crosby, Kate, Kyaw, Pyi Phyo, Travagnin, Stefania and Porter, Olivia (2020) 'Editorial.' Contemporary Buddhism, 21 (1/2). pp. 1-4.

Bartles-Smith, Andrew, Crosby, Kate, Harvey, Peter, Premasiri, P. D., Tilakaratne, Asanga, Ratheiser, Daniel, Deegalle, Mahinda, Trew, Noel Maurer, Travagnin, Stefania and Harris, Elizabeth J. (2020) 'Reducing Suffering During Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism And International Humanitarian Law.' Contemporary Buddhism, 21 (1/2). pp. 369-435.

Travagnin, Stefania (2020) 'From Online Buddha Halls to Robot-Monks: New Developments in the Long-term Interaction between Buddhism, Media and Technology in Contemporary China.' Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 7 (1). pp. 120-148.

Travagnin, Stefania (2018) '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’.' Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 1 (1). pp. 248-277.

Travagnin, Stefania (2017) 'Buddhist Education between Tradition, Modernity and Networks: Reconsidering the ‘Revival’ of Education for the Saṅgha in Twentieth-century China.' Studies in Chinese Religions, 3 (3). pp. 220-241.

Travagnin, Stefania (2017) 'Genealogy and Taxonomy of the "Twentieth-century Renjian Fojiao 人間佛教" Mapping a famen 法門 from Mainland China and Taiwan to Europe.' Journal of Humanistic Buddhism (人間佛教學報藝文), 9. pp. 180-197.

Travagnin, Stefania (2016) 'Elder Gongga 貢噶老人 (1903-1997) between China, Tibet and Taiwan: Assessing Life, Mission and Mummification of a Buddhist Woman.' Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 3. pp. 250-272.

Travagnin, Stefania (2015) 'The Impact of Politics on the Minnan Buddhist Institute: Sanmin zhuyi 三民主义 and aiguo zhuyi 爱国主义 in the Context of Sangha Education.' Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2 (1). pp. 21-50.

Travagnin, Stefania (2014) 'Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies.' East Asian History, 39. pp. 88-101.

Travagnin, Stefania (2013) 'Yinshun's Recovery of Shizhu Piposha lun 十住毗婆沙論: a Madhyamaka-based Pure Land Practice in Twentieth-century Taiwan.' Contemporary Buddhism, 14 (2). pp. 320-343.

Travagnin, Stefania (2012) 'What is Behind Yinshun’s Re-statement of the Nature of the Mūlamadhyamakakā: Debates on the Creation of a New Mahāyāna in Twentieth-century China.' Buddhist Studies Review, 29 (2). pp. 251-272.

Travagnin, Stefania (2007) 'Buddhist Nuns and Female Buddhism in Taiwan: Historical Patterns and Engendered Values.' World Fellowship of Buddhists Review, 44 (1). pp. 6-15.

Travagnin, Stefania (2006) 'Shi Cihang 釋慈航: The First Case of Mummified Buddhist in Taiwan.' Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies (3). pp. 77-100.

Travagnin, Stefania (2005) '福慧塔院永久安息: 二十世紀傳承龍樹法門的高僧.' 當代 = Dang dai (215). pp. 12-41.

Travagnin, Stefania (2004) 'Master Yinshun and the Pure Land Thought: A Doctrinal Gap between Indian Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism.' Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 57 (3). pp. 271-328.

Travagnin, Stefania (2001) 'Il Nuovo “Buddhismo per l'Umanità” (renjian fojiao) a Taiwan: Una nota sulla classificazione degli insegnamenti (panjiao) secondo il Maestro Yinshun.' Cina, 29. pp. 65-102.

Book Reviews

Travagnin, Stefania (2005) 'Review of the Book 'Seeing through Zen. Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism', 2003, by John R. McRae.' Buddhist Studies Review, 22 (1). pp. 73-78.

Theses

Travagnin, Stefania (2009) The Madhyamika dimension of Yinshun : A restatement of the School of Nagarjuna in 20th century Chinese Buddhism. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028877