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Resisting Marriage and Renouncing Womanhood: The Choice of Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The traditional Chinese perception of Buddhist monastics is that they choose to renounce the world out of desperation — after failing in the world such that their only options are suicide or the monastery.
Crane, Hillary
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Menorah Review (No. 79, Summer/Fall, 2013) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Authorities Without Power: The Jewish Council of Vienna During the Holocaust -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Cry and Wail: Jewish Suffering in Documents From Ukraine, 1918-1921 -- Moreshet: From the Sources -- Speaking of the Law -- The Jewish ...

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COVID-19, Virtual Church Services and a New Temporary Geography of Home. [PDF]

open access: yesTijdschr Econ Soc Geogr, 2020
Bryson JR, Andres L, Davies A, Davies A.
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Christianity and Chinese Rites Controversy: Spirit Tablets in 17th Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The funeral practices promoted by the European Catholic missionaries in China provide an interesting example of the adaptation of the Asian world in the 17th and 18th century.
Luengo Gutiérrez, Pedro
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The Passion of the Infant Christ: Critical Edition

open access: yes, 2017
Although forgotten until quite recently, Caryll Houselander, who died in 1954, was a sensitive and profound English Roman Catholic writer on Christian spirituality.
Houselander, Caryll, Walters, Kerry S.
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Religion and the State: The Influence of the Tokugawa on Religious Life, Thought, and Institutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper describes the influence of the Tokugawa government on religious life in Japan. It focuses on the religious traditions of Buddhism, Shintoism, and Neo-Confucianism and how the state used these religions to their advantage.
Labbe, Savannah A.
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Menorah Review (No. 8, Fall, 1986) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
History and Moral Judgment -- Jews in Old China: Some New Findings -- What May We Ask of Holocaust Reflections?

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