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Buddhist Philosophy and the Ideals of Environmentalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
I examine the consistency between contemporary environmentalist ideals and Buddhist philosophy, focusing, first, on the problem of value in nature.
SCIBERRAS, COLETTE
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of postural intervention using a risshin chair on physical posture, class time perception, and subjective well‐being in junior high school students

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Research based on embodied cognition has demonstrated that physical posture, particularly an upright seated posture, can influence emotions and cognition. However, although students spend most of the day sitting in classrooms, intervention research on upright seated postures suitable for learning environments is limited.
Yusuke Murakami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmogony in the Vedas, Brāhmanas and Upanisads, with reference to early Buddhism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
The approach I have taken here is basically descriptive rather than analytical. I have concentrated a lot on the Vedas, possibly at the expense of the other material, led partly by personal preference and partly by awareness of past neglect by many ...
Davies, Alan James
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Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
wiley   +1 more source

Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
wiley   +1 more source

Lucid Dreaming Frequency Associated With Grey–White Matter Networks: An Exploratory Multimodal MRI Study

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lucid dreaming, defined as the experience of becoming aware of dreaming while dreaming, offers a unique window into a state of consciousness characterised by a blending of the sensory vividness of REM sleep with the self‐awareness of wakefulness. While past functional imaging has shed light on the neural activity supporting lucid dreaming, the
Nicola De Pisapia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pāli Buddhist and Christian Analyses of Gender

open access: yes, 2018
This record is for a(n) offprint of an article published in Buddhist-Christian Studies on 2018-11-20; the version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2018.0025.This article explores the implications of early Buddhist and Christian ...
Manring, Rebecca, Anderson, Carol
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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

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