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Hindu Avatāra and Christian Kenosis: A New Approach in Comparative Theology1

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 223-237, May 2025.
Abstract Within comparative theology, the Hindu doctrine of avatāra has traditionally been compared to the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, both of which are expressions of divine embodiment in creaturely form. This article, however, contrasts the doctrine of avatāra with a reading of the incarnation that frames the latter within the broader ...
Christian J. Ivandić
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Return from exile: Mythology and heritage in American Born Chinese and its Disney adaptation

Popular Culture Review, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 228-237, Fall 2024.
Abstract Though American Born Chinese has received a significant degree of scholarly study, the prevalence of cultural exile in the text has not received sufficient attention. Said's theorization on exile provides a guide to examining the mindset of Jin, who willfully accepts exile from his Chinese‐American heritage because of how he feels neither ...
Joshua Fagan
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THE OPENING OF HISTORICAL FUTURES*

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 303-318, September 2024.
ABSTRACT With a touch of irony, the project‐closing piece of the “Historical Futures” collective research endeavor pulls together the threads of its four years of explorative work by showcasing an opening of historical futures. Against the persisting myth of the closure of the future in contemporary societies, it claims that, as long as the future ...
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Marek Tamm
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Volumetric citizenship

American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 350-362, August 2024.
Abstract In Thailand, the volatile period from 2019 to 2023 was marked by changing material and political atmospheres. Air pollution, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and government restrictions on speech transformed how Thai citizens breathed and how they related to the monarchy. Understanding this period as a history of breath reconceptualizes the citizen‐body
Eli Elinoff
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Bodhisattva Aspiration : Principles and Means to Dominate the entire Society

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2019
The article is entitled “Bodhisattva Aspiration: Principles and Means to Dominate the entire Society” to be an attempt to propose the way how Boddhisatva has done with the power of virtue aspiration.
Suvin Ruksat
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The Odae chinŏn (Five Great Mantras) and Dhāraṇī Collections in Premodern Korea

Religions, 2022
The Five Great Mantras (Odae chinŏn) is one of the most widely circulated collections of Buddhist dhāraṇīs in premodern Korea, having been published or existing in several variant editions during the Chosŏn period (1392–1910).
Richard D. McBride
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A Conversation With Marc Hallin

International Statistical Review, Volume 92, Issue 2, Page 137-159, August 2024.
Summary Marc Hallin was born in Ghent, Belgium, on 23 April 1949. He holds a Licence en Sciences mathématiques (1971), a Licence en Sciences actuarielles (1972), and a Doctorat en Sciences (1976) from the Université libre de Bruxelles. He then rose through the professorial ranks at the same institution, being successively Premier Assistant (1977–1978),
Christian Genest
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The Stoicism of Śāntideva: Comparisons between Stoic and Buddhist philosophy

Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 377-399, August 2024.
Abstract Recently, due to various geopolitical events, a movement for 'decolonisation' has taken shape. In essence, this movements seeks to right the wrongs of Western colonialism. This desire has been expressed in many diverse ways depending on the context.
Lee Clarke
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Mahayana Philosophy: Problems and Research

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The introduction to the topic of this issue is an overview of the research articles authored by Russian, Lithuanian, and Indian scholars on various problems of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy.
Victoria G. Lysenko
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White shirts as sacred amulets: “World‐making” and “self‐making” during the Burmese political festival

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.
Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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