Snježana Zorić, PhD

Snježana Zorić, PhD, Full Professor

CURRICULUM VITAE

  • Date of birth: 14 February 1955.
  • Place of birth: Zagreb, Croatia.
  • 1961-1969 – Elementary, Middle school in Zagreb, Croatia.
  • 1969 -1973 – High school in Zagreb.
  • 1973-1977/1985 – A. in Philosophy and Indology at Philosophical Faculty, University of Zagreb.
  • 1990 – M.A in Ethnology and Anthropology. Dissertation topic: Liturgical Rituals in the Franciscan Monastery of Cernik and the Corresponding Customs in Everyday Life.
  • 2000 – Ph.D. in Ethnology and Anthropology. Dissertation topic: Yeongsan taeje – Korean Buddhist Ritual as a Mirror Image of Korean Culture.
  • 1977-1988 – Archivist at Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • 1988 – Research fellowship in Seoul, Korea (Korea Research Foundation).
  • 1989 – Research fellowship at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Institute of East and West Studies).
  • 1990 -1994 – Lecturer for Croatian Language and Culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.
  • 1995-2005 – Lecturer at Department of Philosophy and Department of Science of Religion at Julius-Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany.
  • 2003 – Scientific researcher for project on „Theatralität als kulturelles Modell in den Kulturwissenschaften“ (Theatricality as Cultural Model in Cultural Studies) at Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 2005 – Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Research on Culture at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany
  • 2005 – Case Study on Interreligious phenomena, Brixen, Italy.
  • 2006-2008 – Lecturer at Theological University, Studio teologico Accademico Bressanone, Brixen, Italy.
  • 2008-2013 – Head of Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, Croatia.
  • 2013-2015 – Professor at Department of South-Slavic Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2015-2016 – Professor at Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, Croatia.
  • 2016 – present – Professor at Department of South-Slavic Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.

AREAS OF STUDIES

Asian Cultures (Philosophy, Art, Religion), Interculturality, Anthropological Theories.

FIELD RESEARCH

1985                Central Java and Bali – Music and Dance

1988                Franciscan Monastery in Cernik, Croatia – Rites and Customs in the Liturgical Year

1988-1991      Korea – Buddhist Philosophy and Religion, Shamanism, Confucianism

1991                Taiwan – Buddhism and Daoism

1992                India, Andhra Pradesh – Interreligious Hinduism in the Ashram of Sai Baba;

                        Tamil Nadu – Sri Aurobindo‘s Integral Philosophy and its Realization in Auroville

1993                Japan, Kyoto – Buddhist Rituals

2005               Sabah, Malaysian Borneo – Orientalism

2006               Sri Lanka – Buddhism and Everyday Life

2010               India, Himachal Pradesh – Tibetan Diaspora and Dislocated Tibet

2014-2015     Himachal Pradesh, Continuation of the Research on the Tibetan Cultural Metamorphosis in
                        McLeod Ganj;

                        Punjab – Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

2016-2017     Bhutan (Thimphu, Paro, Punakha) – Buddhism and the Concept of Happiness in   Religion and
                        Politics

2017               Cambodia, Politicized Buddhism and “Killing Fields”

2018               Macau – Anthropology of Gambling

WORK IN PROGRESS

Visions and Voices: Through the Body of Mudang and the Thought of Anthropologist

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Yeongsan taejae – buddhistički ritual kao zrcalna slika korejske kulture (Yeongsan taeje – Korean Buddhist Ritual as a Mirror Image of Korean Culture). Zagreb 2004.

Obred i običaj (Rite and Custom), Zagreb 1994.

Edited books

Gert Hofmann, Snježana Zorić. Presence of the Body. Awareness in and beyond Experience. Leiden. Boston: Brill. Rodopi. 2017.

Goran Ledenčan, Snježana Zorić. Etnoimpresije iz Skopja (Ethno-impressions from Skopje). Zadar: Studentski zbor Sveučilišta u Zadru. 2014.

Iva Bulić, Snježana Zorić, Izmješteni Tibet. Tibetski kulturni i interkulturni imaginariji (Tibet – Dislocated: Tibetan Cultural and Intercultural Imaginary). Zadar: Studentski zbor Sveučilišta u Zadru. 2013.

Snježana Zorić et al. Sarajevo. Interkulturalnost i međureligijski dijalog (Sarajevo. Interculturality and Interreligious Dialogue). Zadar: Studentski zbor Sveučilišta u Zadru. 2013.

Gert Hofmann, Snježana Zorić. Topodynamics of Arrival: Essays on Self and Pilgrimage. Leiden: Rodopi. 2012.

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