Religious wonderlands: Eros, madness, and ethics in religious studies through the work of Lynne Huffer

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Notes on contributors

Sara Ann Swenson is a doctoral candidate in the religion department at Syracuse University. She specializes in Vietnamese Buddhism, transnational Buddhism, gender studies, affect theory, and theories of asceticism.

Notes

1. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, 206.

2. Huffer, “Strange Eros,” 103.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., 104.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid., 105.

9. Ibid., 106.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid., quoting: Martha Nussbaum. “The Speech of Alcibiades,” 144.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., 107.

14. Ibid., 108.

15. Ibid., 109.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid., 110.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid., 110–11.

21. Ibid., 111.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid., 112.

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid.

27. Ibid.

28. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, 176.

29. Ibid.

30. Foucault, “Power,” 245–46.

31. Ibid., 240; 241.

32. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, 82.

33. Foucault, “What Is an Author?” 117.