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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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ReligionsBuddhist women in traditional China used embroidery—considered the most feminine art form—to produce images of deities, allowing them to visualize their religious aspirations while adhering to the decorum expected in Confucian society.
Soohyun Yoon
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From Emptiness to Interconnectedness: Identity and Dependence in Chinese Buddhism
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2025.ABSTRACT “Everything is interconnected” is a central theme of Chinese Buddhism. This article examines how four prominent Chinese Buddhist schools—Tiantai 天台, Sanlun 三論, Huayan 華嚴, and Chan 禪—engaged with interconnectedness during the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581–907 CE), the golden age of Chinese Buddhism.
Li Kang
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Openness as a Political Commitment
Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 585-603, Winter 2025.
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 137-157, March 2025.Abstract Human rights activists worldwide rely heavily on naming and shaming rights‐abusing states at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to induce them to comply with international human rights norms. However, what about national‐level actors who seek to shame a government for complying with human rights?
Chulani Kodikara
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Visible Layouts, Hidden Dynamics: Reading, Reproducing, and Reframing Chinese Buddhist Glossaries
ReligionsThis paper investigates how the layout strategies of Xuanying’s Yiqiejing yinyi (mid-7th c.), the earliest surviving Chinese Buddhist glossary, evolved across manuscripts, Buddhist Canon editions, and Qing-era scholarly reprints from the 7th to 19th ...
Ziwei Ye
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Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 217-239, March 2025.Abstract As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how
Serkan Yolaçan
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ReligionsSince the appearance of Buddha, texts and images depicting his life have circulated across Eurasia, serving as significant mediums for disseminating Buddhist ideology.
Wei Xiang
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Szútrák a hosszú élethez Amoghavajra fordításában
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2017 In the 20th volume of the Taishō Canon (大正新脩大蔵経), there are five texts that were all supposedly translated by Amoghavajra 不空 in the 8th century, and share the same subject: longevity. One of them is the Fugen Enmei scripture 普賢延命経.
Mónika Kiss
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The house is coming from inside the call
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
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