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The Centre for Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS (Villejuif / Paris) are pursuing their collaboration in the form of a series of day-long thematic workshops in the comparative anthropology of Buddhism, this year (2015-16) on the general theme of “Religion and the Secular”.This year's second workshop will be held on Friday, 8 April 2016.Its theme is:Religion and Economy.Please find the short program below, and the complete program, with abstracts and bibliographical suggestions, here.All interested scholars and students are most welcome to join us.Please contact: Nicolas Sihlé (nsihle [at] vjf.cnrs.fr).&#160;Past and future sessions of these workshops:2012-13:The place of teachings in processes of transmission and conversion.Variations on the Buddhist gift.Buddhism and the State.2013-14 (1st year of the "Buddhist religious fields" cycle):Monasticism.Non-monastic Buddhist specialists.Possession specialists.2014-15 (2nd year of the "Buddhist religious fields" cycle):Buddhism and the spirit cults revisited.Gender and Buddhist religious fields.The laity in contemporary Buddhist religious fields: categories, actors, roles.2015-16 ("Religion and the Secular" cycle):Politics and Religion.Religion and Economy.&#160;