Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion

Prof Geoffrey Samuel

Position:Professor; Director of Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion

Email:SamuelG@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 70558
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74929
Extension:70558
Location:John Percival Building, 5.29

Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion
Religion in Tibetan societies, contemporary and historical
The historical development and contemporary practice of technologies of consciousness; understanding the relationship between consciousness, body and materiality, particularly in relation to healing, meditation and yoga
Tibetan, Indian and other Asian medical, health and yogic practices
Religion and modernity, including Buddhism in contemporary societies
Gender, sexuality and masculinity in Asian cultures
Shamanism and ‘nature religions’

2012. Introducing Tibetan Buddhism. London and New York: Routledge.
2010. From Village Religion to Global Networks: Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel. Special Double Issue of Women’s Studies International Forum (vol.33, no.3)
2008. The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
2005. Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass; London: Ashgate.
2002. The Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel. London and New York: Routledge
2001 “Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice.” In Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel (eds.), Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies, pp.247-268. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey.
1993. Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. Paperback edition 1995. Also Asian edition, Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, 1995.
1990. Mind, Body and Culture: Anthropology and the Biological Interface. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.