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Cultural Identity and Religious Practice: Challenges for Tibetan Buddhists in China [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right protected by international law and many national constitutions. In China, the Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief, but the implementation of this right, particularly for Tibetan Buddhists ...
Uliana Zhambaeva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

A Tibetan window into the twentieth-century Himalayan world

open access: yesEuropean Bulletin of Himalayan Research
This article examines interconnections between parts of the Indian Himalaya and Tibet in the period encompassing the escape of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to India in 1959.
Swati Chawla
doaj   +1 more source

Self-Representation and Cultural Expectations: Yogi Chen and Religious Practices of Life-Writing

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2016
Explores the differences in self-representation as found in the autobiographical writings of Yogi Chen, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama. While the latter two are widely recognized in American popular religious culture, the former is virtually invisible ...
Richard K. Payne
doaj   +1 more source

Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
wiley   +1 more source

A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E(s) ∞ mc2 Sentience, Consciousness and Transcendance?

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 78-82, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
wiley   +1 more source

Compaixão e medicina centrada na pessoa: convergências entre o Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso e Ian McWhinney

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, 2016
O método clínico centrado na pessoa (MCCP) é uma proposta de reorientação da prática clínica que identifica um distanciamento, na medicina contemporânea, da experiência subjetiva e qualitativa dos pacientes.
Leandro David Wenceslau   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 9, Page 810-820, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent calls to include religious bioethics on the table in policy and other public‐facing contexts have been made on the grounds of respect. This paper argues that these same considerations of respect point to an obligation to exclude religious bioethics from public‐facing contexts.
Muralidharan Anantharaman
wiley   +1 more source

Building the walls of international trade after war: Can dispute resolution mechanisms (DRMs) help?

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1147-1169, October 2025.
Abstract This paper explores how international trade recovers after war, emphasizing the role of dispute resolution mechanisms (DRMs). Wars typically prolong negative trade impacts due to heightened tensions, but DRMs—such as General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization and diplomatic exchanges—can reduce these tensions, lower policy
Felix Fosu
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhism and Nationalism as Sources of Identity in in Asia of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2022
The article examines the influence of Buddhism and nationalism on identification processes in Asian countries in the context of political transformations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Significant revitalization of Buddhism (sometimes called “
Baatr U. Kitinov
doaj   +1 more source

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