The Contemporary Confucian-Christian Encounter: Interreligious or Intrareligious Dialogue [PDF]
The discipline of comparative religions has paid little attention to perhaps the most important religious phenomenon of the late twentieth century: interreligious dialogue. Available scholarship on this topic is largely written by and for participants in
Jochim, Christian
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Spartan Daily, March 19, 2014 [PDF]
Volume 142, Issue 22https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1482/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Psychological Universals in the Study of Happiness: From Social Psychology to Epicurean Philosophy [PDF]
Within the framework of Positive Psychology and Needing Theories, this article reviews cultural practices or perceptions regarding what happiness is and how it can be achieved.
Euler, Sasha S.
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The concepts of emptiness and nothingness are extremely important in Eastern as well as Western spiritual traditions. In East Asia, they are relevant in Daoism, Confucianism (in the context of integrating Daoist ideas) and Buddhism (in Śūnyatā), while in
Kaspars Kļaviņš
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"The Place of Cultural Explanations and Historical Specificity in Discussions of Modes of Incorporation and Segmented Assimilation" [PDF]
This paper serves as an opportunity to pull together some thoughts and questions about modes of incorporation as an explanation for ethnic differences in behavior.
Joel Perlmann
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Advertising and Culture: Variations on the Theme of Individualism in Korean and American Magazine Advertising [PDF]
Social scientists regard the U.S. and the Republic of Korea as countries with opposing cultural values. Given this contrast, the advertising of each culture is expected to differ.
Kim, Hoh, Wolburg, Joyce M.
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Chinese and North American Culture: a New Perspective in Linguistics Studies [PDF]
We explored the two cultures in the two countries. There has been discussed on Chinese culture and North American culture. Chinese language, ceramics, architecture, music, dance, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy, business ...
Huan, C. Y. (Cheng), Li, Z. X. (Ziang)
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Translating Buddhism for the West: High Textual Scholarship on Korean Buddhism
Although scholars in the field are few, the prospects have never been greater for the translation into English of materials relating to Korean Buddhism. During the second half of the twentieth century, full translations of several principal texts appeared sporadically in a variety of intellectual contexts, but during the 1990s the Sourcebook of Korean ...
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The Practice of Self-Overcoming: Nietzschean Reflections on the Martial Arts [PDF]
Monahan, Michael
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On how religions could accidentally incite lies and violence: Folktales as a cultural transmitter [PDF]
This research employs the Bayesian network modeling approach, and the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, to learn about the role of lies and violence in teachings of major religions, using a unique dataset extracted from long-standing Vietnamese ...
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