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

Journal 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

Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
wiley   +1 more source

Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022
Andrew S. Taylor
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Perspective of “Engaged Buddhism” and “Renjian Fojiao” (“Humanistic Buddhism”) in Chinese Speaking Discourse: Exclusivism, Inclusivism, or Pragmatism?

Religions
The two modern concepts, “Engaged Buddhism” and renjian fojiao 人間佛教, with the variety of its English translations (such as “Humanistic Buddhism”), were developed and discussed with and without reference to each other over several decades.
Carsten Krause
doaj   +1 more source

To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Soteriological Inclusiveness and Religious Tourism in Modern Thai Buddhism: The Stūpa of Mae Chi Kaew Sianglam (1901–1991)

Journal of Global Buddhism
While numerous Thai male Buddhist monastics have been deeply and widely revered for their perceived attainment of full awakening/arahant-ship, the same recognition for Thai female practitioners together with the concomitant phenomena of veneration ...
Martin Seeger, Prapas Kaewketpong, Adcharawan Seeger, Juree Saijunjiam   +3 more
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Buddhist studies in the west, past and present: Role of the Mongolian Buddhism

Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2018
In this article, I tried to illustrate a brief history of Buddhist Studies in the Western world and role of Mongolian Buddhism in its history and future prospects.
Sainbileg B
doaj   +1 more source

Budizm’in Batı’dan Doğuşu: Modern ve Postmodern Budizm

İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2020
Batı’da Budizm’i bir din olarak benimsemeden Budist teori ve pratikler ile çeşitli şekillerde ilişki kurarak Budizm’i hayat tarzına ve düşünce dünyasına dâhil eden kişilerin sayısı hızlı bir artış göstermektedir.
Hesna Serra Aksel
doaj   +1 more source