Nathan Michon has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award to conduct research at Tohoku University in Japan as part of a dissertation project examining chaplaincy in contemporary Japanese Buddhism. A PhD student in the department of Cultural and Historical Studies in Religions with a concentration in Buddhist Studies, Michon is studying how Japanese clergy are combining approaches often employed in Western chaplaincy with traditional Japanese Buddhist meditations and other techniques to create innovative forms of caregiving.
Chaplaincy is among the most dynamic aspects of...
