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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Korean Buddhism in the Era of ‘Spiritual, but Not Religious’: Adapting to Contemporary Society
ReligionsThe shift toward modernity has come with many changes that affect religion. This article investigates some of those changes with the aim of showing how Korean Buddhism is adjusting to contemporary spirituality.
Brian D. Somers
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On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]
, 2014 This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Religions, 2020 Following the introduction of Buddhism to China, various strategies of accommodation with Chinese culture were developed, all amounting to some form of syncretism with Chinese religions, mainly Confucianism. Buddhism in pre-modern Korea displayed similar
Sem Vermeersch
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East-meets-West: How the Dhammapada Influenced the New Thought Movement [PDF]
, 2018 New Thought teachings are based on a variety of pre-existing traditions as well as on information new to the human consciousness. While the exact source of specific New Thought concepts is unclear, evidence suggests that the movement benefited from ...
Anama-Green, Chris
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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A Confucian Perspective on Public Health Ethics
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Debates in public health ethics have been dominated by the assumptions of Western liberalism: a priority given to liberty and autonomy over other values, an individualistic view of social ontology, a focus on personal responsibility, a minimal set of obligations (only created through consent), and a marginalization of social, cultural, and ...
Kathryn Muyskens, Angus Dawson
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Eliot, Emerson, and transpacific modernism [PDF]
, 2018 First author draftAccepted ...
Patterson, Anita
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Traditional meditation, mindfulness and psychodynamic approach: An integrative perspective [PDF]
, 2016 The purpose of this article is to consolidate the inter-theoretical bridge between psychodynamic approach and TM, beyond the apparent incompatibility. Our impression is that even if some authors have already worked in order to fill the gap between TM and
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