Results 61 to 70 of about 1,818,573 (206)

Associations Between Short Video Exposure, Empathy and Attitudes Toward End‐Of‐Life Care Among Nursing Students: A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesNursing Open, Volume 13, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim This cross‐sectional study examined the associations between short video exposure, nursing students' empathy, and attitudes toward end‐of‐life (EOL) care, and tested whether perceived impact is statistically consistent with an indirect pathway in these relationships. Design A descriptive cross‐sectional study.
Feifei Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Architects of Buddhist Leisure : Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both
McDaniel, Justin Thomas   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Post-religional perspective and secular Buddhism: Stephen Batchelor and the post-metaphysical religion

open access: yesHorizonte, 2015
This paper aims to present one of the contemporary trends on Buddhism, specially from the last decades in West, for its encounter with the globalized and dynamic context of present societies.
Leandro Durazzo
doaj  

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 946-964, September 2026.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View

open access: yes, 2012
Secular Buddhism is coalescing today in response to two main factors. First, it rejects the incoherence of Buddhist modernism, a protean formation that accommodates elements as far afield as ancestral Buddhism and psychotherapies claiming the Buddhist ...
Higgins, W
core  

Possessed for Success: Prosperity Buddhism and the Cult of the Guardians of the Treasure Trove in Upper Burma

open access: yes, 2017
Following the global spread of capitalism from the early 1990s, individualistic, non-institutionalised prosperity religion and ‘occult economies’ have emerged throughout the world, including South-East Asia, but have seemingly not yet been investigated ...
Foxeus, Niklas,, Niklas Foxeus
core   +1 more source

Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 456-468, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Dying ‘Buddhish’: Death, Diversity, and Worldview Complexity in and Beyond Australia

open access: yesJournal of Global Buddhism
Buddhism contributes significantly to spirituality and wellness practices in contemporary Australia, influencing a new way of life not just for converts, but also broader society. Less frequently observed, however, is how Buddhism and Buddhist-inspired
Hannah Gould   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 3780-3814, September 2026.
Abstract Humanity – the virtue enabling meaningful human connection – is vital to the leadership we need to survive our polycrisis context. As a prerequisite to sustainable human community, the virtue of humanity is considered universal. It has been claimed as a ‘higher‐order virtue’, comprised of and enacted by – but irreducible to – a suite of ‘lower‐
Toby Newstead   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shi Cihang 航慈釋. The First Case of Mummified Buddhist in Taiwan

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2006
Shi Cihang 航慈釋 (1895-1954), is one of the eminent figures in the so-called Modern Buddhism in Taiwan. Engaged in improving education and training of Buddhist monks and nuns, and promoter of the so-called renjian fojiao 教佛間人 (Buddhism for the Human Realm),
Stefania Travagnin
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy