Results 71 to 80 of about 24,367 (209)

Lessons from Gaza: My Journey into Critical Trauma‐Informed Pedagogy in English Language Teaching for Refugees

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue S1, Page S259-S270, June 2026.
Abstract This paper outlines the journey of an English language teaching (ELT) practitioner–researcher in terms of her evolving understanding over a 10‐year period of how an effective trauma‐informed pedagogy (TIP) might look for learners from refugee backgrounds.
Aleks Palanac
wiley   +1 more source

Living Karma The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu

open access: yes, 2014
Ouyi Zhixu (15991655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what ...
McGuire, Beverley Foulks
core  

Family History in an Old Genre: The Strange Tales of Lü Meisun and Guo Zeyun

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Recording personal and family history has been a secondary purpose of the zhiguai (tales of the strange) genre from its inception. As there is no proven female author of a surviving collection before the 20th century, these family histories were shaped ...
Rania Huntington
doaj   +1 more source

The Baltimore Community Weather Station Network: Filling the Urban Measurement Desert

open access: yesCommunity Science, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract Quantification and understanding of how heat, rainfall, and air quality vary within cities are needed to identify the area with the worst conditions, develop solutions to extreme weather, and assess the impact of proposed policies. However, neighborhood‐level variability is not well quantified because there are few environmental measurement ...
Darryn W. Waugh   +31 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 167-179, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

Algunos conceptos significativos de la filosofía india en el Uji Shūi Monogatari, interpretados desde la perspectiva mahayánica de los budistas japoneses

open access: yesEstudios de Asia y África
El afianzamiento del budismo como religión multitudinaria en el medievo japonés supuso la asimilación de diferentes costumbres y creencias indias introducidas como parte de la tradición budista.
Efraín Villamor Herrero
doaj   +1 more source

Reframing Loneliness as a Global Phenomenon: Insights From the Majority World

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.
In this perspective, loneliness is reframed as a global phenomenon that particularly affects minoritized populations in low‐resources settings. The article sheds light on structural factors underlying the higher prevalence of loneliness in LMICs that go beyond the individualism versus collectivism debate. Viewing loneliness through the lens of poverty,
Samia C. Akhter‐Khan
wiley   +1 more source

Animals, Ledgers of Merit and Demerit, and Karma: Religious Ecological Mechanisms in Chinese Morality Books of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

open access: yesReligions
The article examines the religio-ecological framework articulated in Ming–Qing morality books 勸善書, focusing on how animals, Ledgers of merit 功過格, and karmic 業報 are integrated into a system of moral causality.
Junhui Chen, Xinfeng Kong
doaj   +1 more source

Gommatsara karma-kanda : (part II) /

open access: yes, 1974
Dl. II ook verschenen als: J. L. Jaini memorial series ; 7.Herdr. van de uitg.: Lucknow : Central Jaina Publishing House, 1937. - (The sacred books of the Jainas ; vol. 10). - (J.L. Jaina memorial series ; vol. 7)
Nemicandra Siddhānta Cakravartī,   +2 more
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy