Coming to Terms with “Engaged Buddhism”: Periodizing, Provincializing, and Politicizing the Concept
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 Whatever happened to “Engaged Buddhism”? Twenty years after a flurry of publication placing this global movement firmly on the map, enthusiasm for the term itself appears to have evaporated.
Alexander O. Hsu
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Religions, 2022 Gutoku Shinran 愚禿親鸞 (1173–1263) is one of Japan’s most creative and influential thinkers. He is the (posthumous) founder of what ultimately became Jōdo Shinshū, better known today as Shin Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan ...
Sarah Mattice
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Youth Buddhism: The Centrality of “Youth” in Modern Buddhism
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2021 Throughout this article, I propose the term “Youth Buddhism” in order to bring out an underdeveloped field of study—of Buddhism and youth—and to emphasize the instrumental role that youth play as both an imagined problem for religions as well as the ...
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
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Gender Conflicts in Contemporary Korean Buddhism
Religions, 2023 Scholars have observed that Korean Buddhist nuns have a relatively high social status compared to nuns of other Asian countries, much like their sisters in Taiwan. It is a source of great pride for many Korean bhikṣuṇīs that their community operates with
Eun-su Cho
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Taiwanese Nuns and Education Issues in Contemporary Taiwan
Religions, 2022 In this article, I discuss the Buddhist educational profile of nuns in contemporary Taiwan by introducing the development of monastic education for women.
Yu-Chen Li
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Cultivating a 'Habitus of Multiplicity' in Cross-Cultural Medicine: From Case Study Conflict to Many-Sided Conditions of Care Through Process and Jain Metaphysics. [PDF]
Nurs PhilosABSTRACT Prompted by a nursing case study that occurred in 2022, this paper joins the perspectives of a nurse practitioner and cross‐cultural medical ethics professor to consider who can ask a question in the healthcare system, what questions can be heard, and how to develop pluralistic care models—beyond relativism and imperialism—that solicit more ...
Donaldson B.
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Religion as practices of attachment and materiality: the making of Buddhism in contemporary London [PDF]
, 2016 This article aims to explore Buddhism’s often-overlooked presence on London’s urban landscape, showing how its quietness and subtlety of approach has allowed the faith to grow largely beneath the radar. It argues that Buddhism makes claims to urban space
Barker Eileen +35 more
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Umandawa: Buddhist Transformation in Modern Sri Lanka
Religions, 2023 Charismatic Buddhist monks are instrumental in modernising Buddhism as they have been entrusted with an important role of resurrecting religion and Sinhala society throughout the course of Sri Lankan history. Ven. Pitaduwe Siridhamma, later known as Siri
Gihani De Silva
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Global religious changes and civil life in two Chinese societies: a comparison of Jiangsu and Taiwan [PDF]
, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2015.1039305Published ...
Weller, Robert P.
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Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand and Hawai‘i
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 Introduction to the JGB Special Focus section, "Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaiʻi." In this special issue, we endeavour to explore horizontal flows and counter flows of Buddhism on ‘paths less ...
Anna Halafoff +2 more
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