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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT Many traditions and worldviews have held that patience is a virtue—a habit that is morally praiseworthy. In this essay we orient readers to recent work on what patience is and what patience does. What are the distinctive markers of the disposition of patience? And why have people regarded it as so important to living well?
Anne Jeffrey, Timothy Pawl
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Growing Religious Diversity in South Carolina: Implications for the Palmetto State [PDF]
, 2004 This paper documents the growth of religious diversity in South Carolina, drawing on interviews with members from the traditions represented, previous scholarly research on religion in South Carolina, newspaper articles, census data and interviews with ...
Tracy J. Wells
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 17, Issue 8, Page 1586-1595, November 2024.Abstract The development of anatomy as a scientific undertaking appears to have left little room for religious and cultural input into the conduct of anatomical investigations. This has been brought to the fore by questionnaires regarding the willingness or otherwise of individuals to donate their bodies for dissection, with higher levels of ...
David Gareth Jones
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PEREMPUAN DAN AGAMA DALAM NOVEL INDONESIA
Yinyang: Jurnal Studi Islam, Gender dan Anak, 2015 In Indonesian literature, there have emerged novelist women who give much influence. Along time, they through development, both on theme and structure of those texts.
Maman Mahayana
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Emperor Wu of Liang’s Reinterpretation and Elevation of the Precepts as the Bodhisattva Ideal
ReligionsThis paper examines Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty (r. 502–549) and his efforts to reform the Buddhist saṅgha through the establishment of the bodhisattva precepts and the proclamation of the Prohibition of Alcohol and Meat.
Yoon Kyung Cho
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The Self: Kierkegaard and Buddhism in Dialogue [PDF]
, 2017 Is it possible for there to be a fruitful dialogue between Søren Kierkegaard and Buddhists regarding the understanding of the self? In this paper, I explore the possibilities for such a dialogue by first discussing the rejection of substantialism shared ...
WISDO, David
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
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ReligionsTension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravāda Buddhist Theory and Practice: A Reevaluation of the Bodhisattva-Śrāvaka Opposition [PDF]
, 1997 In the academic study of Buddhism the terms Mahayana and Hinayana are often set in contradiction to each other, and the two vehicles are described as having different aspirations, teachings, and practices.
Samuels, Jeffrey
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