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Exploring the Significance of “Discerning the Zong (Bian Zong 辨宗)” in the Sectarianization of Buddhism

Religions
The prelude holds dual significance. Firstly, it denotes the initial exploration of sectarian Buddhism by the Sanlun zong and the Tiantai zong. Secondly, it signifies the act of “exploring” itself as a means of establishing a distinct sect.
Peng Zhou
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Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio‐cultural and economic predictors

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract In an increasingly globalized world challenged by multiple social problems, global social identifications (GSIs, e.g., with all humanity) are concepts of growing interest. Although such identifications can be affected by the cultural contexts in which they are manifested, research on them remains largely confined to Western, Educated ...
Katarzyna Hamer, Marta Penczek, Karolina Marcinkowska, Bartek Nowak, Katarzyna Branowska, David Sparkman, Laura S. Loy, Maria Baran, Ayu Okvitawanli, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Justin D. Hackett, Paul Bertin, Margarida Carmona, Rita Guerra, Anna Wlodarczyk, Grace Akello, Flavia Albarello, Mujeeba Ashraf, Maja Bednarowicz, Liang Beixiang, Nora Benningstad, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Elirea Bornman, Janine Bosak, Ernest Darkwah, Sylvain Delouvée, Stephanie J. Eder, Violeta Enea, Augustin Espinosa, Edgardo Etchezahar, Laura J. Ferris, Alla A. Gudzovskaya, Keltouma Guerch, Joep Hofhuis, Matthew J. Hornsey, David Igbokwe, Manuel L. Ibarra, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Krzysztof Kaniasty, Gabriella J. Kengyel, Hamid Khanipour, Paul Labor, Aline Venceslau Vieira Lima, Oleksandra Loshenko, Karolina Mazurowska, Keren K. Mintz, Lucas Monzani, Satoshi Moriizumi, Andrew B. Moynihan, Mohammed Mubarique, Radó P. Nagy, Kenzo Nera, Boglárka Nyúl, James Osinde, Emrah Özsoy, Jorge Palacio, Ondrey Pešout, Anna‐Maija Pirttilä‐Backman, Vivien Pong, Erico Rentería, Dayana Restrepo, Adil Samekin, Hilah Segal‐Klein, Heyla A. Selim, Denis Sindic, Alexa Spence, Sabrina Stöckli, Kim‐Pong Tam, Joaquín Ungaretti, Beata Urbańska, Angela Wang, Illia Yahiiaiev, Yelena Yemelyanova   +72 more
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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures : case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups [PDF]

, 2008
Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local ...
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
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eHealth Literacy Mediating Social Support and Technology Acceptance Among Patients With Chronic Illnesses: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 5, Page 5049-5059, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine the relationships among social support, eHealth literacy and eHealth technology acceptance among patients with chronic illnesses, and investigate whether eHealth literacy plays a mediating role. Design A cross‐sectional correlational study.
Lian‐Shin Shiu, Yu‐Shan Huang, Chieh Yu Liu, Yu‐Shan Cheng, Yu‐Chi Chen   +4 more
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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Evolutionarily Optimal Risk Aversion

Risk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In an experimental choice situation, we identify risk‐acceptability thresholds and show how such thresholds are updated in response to benchmark information, a recurrent feature of health, safety, and environmental (HS&E) risk governance. We present a theoretical framework linking the observed behavior to an underlying evolutionary parameter ...
Chmura, Nguyen, Biermann
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Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social ...
Eh, Edmond
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The Pursuit of Universality in Chinese Buddhism

Religions
Having adopted, appropriated, and altered Indian forms of Buddhism, various schools of Chinese Buddhist thought inherited and transformed essential orientations of both Buddhism and traditional Chinese philosophy insofar as it exhibits a tendency toward ...
Zhu Cheng
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Haritaki (诃子 ), Holy Medicine of Buddhism

Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2019
Haritaki (诃子, Terminalia chebula Retz.) is also called “Big golden fruit,” “Wind-floating fruit,” and “Arura.” The alias “Big golden fruit” shows its appearance characteristics, the name of “Wind-floating fruit” implies its harsh living environment and ...
Miaoqing Sha, Baican Yang
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