1 Notes on Contributor Phra Nicholas Thanissaro is an Associate Fellow of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) in the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick and is currently reworking his PhD dissertation entitled “Temple-going Teens: The Religiosity and Identity of Buddhists Growing up in Britain” for publication. A Buddhist monk affiliated with the Dhammakâya Foundation, he is also a qualified school teacher and a practitioner of Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Revd. Canon Prof. Leslie J. Francis (University of Warwick) and Dr. Mandy Robbins (Glyndŵr University) for their supervision of this research and the St. Mary’s RE Centre for hosting on its website the online version of the survey used in this study. Thanks also to the anonymous peer reviewers of the Journal of Contemporary Religion, and to Dr. Inkeri Rissanen (University of Tampere) and Dr. Anuleena Kimanen (University of Helsinki) who offered constructive criticism of an earlier draft of this paper presented at the Nordic Conference on Religious Education, Tartu, Estonia in June 2015. Buddhist shrines: bringing sacred context and shared memory into the home By Phra Nicholas THANISSARO Associate Fellow Email: p.thanissaro@warwick.ac.uk . Full citation: Thanissaro, P. N. (2018) Buddhist shrines: bringing sacred context and shared memory into the home, Journal of Contemporary Religion 33(2), 319-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2018.1469277