[PNC 2022 Highlight] ECAI Workshop VI on Regional Religious Systems (RRS)

Topic: Geo-visualization, Geo-Parsing, and Index Measurement in the Study of Regional Religious Systems

Time: Sunday, September 18th, 2022 || 10:15-11:45 Arizona Time

Location: Conference Room S210, ENR2

The Regional Religious System (RRS) approach aims to provide a new perspective to the vast amount of geo-data related to regional religious sites. With the publication of the edited volume The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China (Routledge 2022), new research methods have been initiated and tested. Combining other spatial analysis methods such as Regional Systems Analysis (RSA), Hierarchical Regional Space (HRC), Point Pattern Analysis (PPA), the RRS project at the University of Arizona has focused on geo-visualization and geo-parsing in the past years. Right now, the creation of various indexes for measuring data in Regional Religious Systems has been attempted. This session will introduce some of the new progresses and raise challenging technical questions for further research. The launching of a new RRS website (rrs.arizona.edu) and a Hangzhou Buddhist Culture storymap will be announced.

Chair: 

Philip Stoker (Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona, USA) 

Presenters:

1.

Philip Stoker (Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona, USA)

Glenn Ingram (Graduate Assistant., College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona, USA)

Topic:  Geo-visualizing Regional Religious Systems: A New Design of the RRS Project Website and its Functionality

2. 

Jeffrey Liu (Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, USA)

Ziling Wan (Ph.D. student, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, USA)

Topic: The Making of a Sacred Landscape: Visualizing Hangzhou Buddhist Culture via Geoparsing a Local Gazetteer the Xianchun Lin’an zhi 咸淳臨安志

3. Jiang Wu (Director, Center for Buddhist Studies; Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, USA)

Topic: Measuring the Prestige Index in a Regional Religious System

There is a special conference discount for Dr. Jiang Wu’s latest publication, titled The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China. Please enter the promotion code SS213 in the Routledge website for a 30% discount: https://www.routledge.com/The-Formation-of-Regional-Religious-Systems-i…