Episode 57: Sara Ann Swenson, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College

In this week's episode, Michael sits down with Sara Swenson, from the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College, to discuss contemporary Buddhist charity movements in Vietnam and her ethnographic research in Ho Chi Minh City, which is the heart of her current book project on grassroots Buddhist social service campaigns and its relation to religious humanitarianism in Southeast Asia.  Research & lecture summary: 01:58 Research advice and reading recommendations: 20:20 Sara Swenson's Reading Recommendations: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung (link)