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Exploring Disney's Worlds Through Religious Studies

Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11-12, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Over the course of the last century (1923–2023), the Walt Disney Company has both catalyzed and reflected dizzying changes in the American cultural landscape—including religious ones. Scholars of Disney and religion often take one of three tactics to analyze this pairing: 1) Disney as religion 2) Disney depicting religion, or 3) Disney as ...
Jodi Eichler‐Levine
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‘Even a piece of paper has two sides’: multi‐scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 646-668, September 2024.
Abstract Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections.
Inge Daniels
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Lists as dynamic devices in early Buddhist doctrine and textual tradition [PDF]

, 2013
This article discusses the origin of the Abhidharma genre of Buddhist literature in the Indian context of an oral religious tradition, and shows how the textual format of the Abhidharma texts, in their turn, shaped the development of Buddhist ...
Dessein, Bart
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The “Tripitaka Diplomacy” in the East Asian World During the 10th–12th Centuries

Religions
During the 10th to 12th centuries, the Song, Liao, and Goryeo Dynasties and Japanese regimes in East Asia engaged in frequent activities of requesting and granting the Chinese Tripitaka (the Chinese Buddhist Canon), forming a distinctive diplomatic ...
Jing Jiang, Junnan Shen, Kanliang Wang
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Unloving Mothers: Jesuit Knowledge Production on Abortion and Infanticide in Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 230-244, June 2025.
LINDA ZAMPOL D'ORTIA
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Tracing Scribal Variants and Textual Transmission: A Paleographic Approach to the Nanatsu-dera Manuscript of the Dafangguang Rulai Xingqi Weimizang Jing

Religions
This paper examines the Nanatsu-dera manuscript of the Dafangguang Rulai Xingqi Weimizang Jing (RXWJ) through the lens of scribal practices, with a focus on variant characters (yitizi, 異體字) and textual transmission.
Meiling Lin (Jianrong Shi)
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Buddhist culture as a safeguard for the subjective happiness of Chinese residents: mitigating anxiety regarding housing prices, unemployment, and inequality. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Tan S, Fang P, Shi W, Du S.
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On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]

, 2014
This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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Abstracts

Molecular Oncology, Volume 19, Issue S1, Page 1-940, June 2025.
Abstracts submitted to the ‘EACR 2025 Congress: Innovative Cancer Science’, from 16–19 June 2025 and accepted by the Congress Organising Committee are published in this Supplement of Molecular Oncology, an affiliated journal of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR).
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The True ‘Brahmin Truth’ Taught by the Buddha: The Transmission of Brāhmaṇasacca and the Brahmanical Discourse of Buddhists

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This paper examines the compound brāhmaṇasacca in several Buddhist texts from the Pāli Canon, as well as in their Sanskrit and Chinese adaptations. This paper challenges previous analyses of this term, arguing that the Buddha may have reinterpreted its ...
Efraín Villamor Herrero
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