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Religiosity and Debt Maturity: International Evidence
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between country‐level religiosity and corporate debt maturity. We develop competing predictions reflecting creditor‐ and borrower‐side channels through which religiosity may favor either shorter or longer maturity. Using 407,399 firm‐year observations from 56 countries and territories over 1996–2021, we find
Xingyu Chen +4 more
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to explore perceptions and readiness to engage in advance care planning (ACP) among community‐dwelling cancer survivors. Design An interpretive description qualitative study with reflexive thematic analysis. Methods Cancer survivors who had completed primary cancer treatment and had not previously completed ACP were ...
Wei How Darryl Ang +7 more
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Escritos, 2017 The article analyses the increasing interest in Buddhism among Western Culture. Based on different historical and sociological researches, a critical review of this phenomenon is undertaken in the light of theories concerning Modernity.
Jean Paul Sarrazin
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Varieties of Buddhist Healing in Multiethnic Philadelphia
Religions, 2019 While an increasing amount of attention has been paid in the last decade to mindfulness meditation, the broader impact of Buddhism on healthcare in the United States, or any industrialized Western countries, is still much in need of scholarly ...
C. Pierce Salguero
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Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Ideals of Environmentalism [PDF]
, 2010 I examine the consistency between contemporary environmentalist ideals and Buddhist philosophy, focusing, first, on the problem of value in nature.
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Tales of “Good Indian Hair”: Race, Value, and Sensory Contact Zones in Afro‐Asian Delhi
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT Hair, as a sociocultural bodily signifier, also becomes, once disembodied, a highly globalized and specialized commodity used for weaves, extensions, wigs and toupees around the globe. “Indian” hair is particularly valued in such commodity chains.
Bani Gill
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Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2018 Focusing on organized Buddhism in the Republic of Buryatia and analyzing the statements of Khambo Lama Damba Aiusheev of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia and the textbooks used for teaching religion in public schools, the article discusses the ...
Ivan Sablin
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