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SOUTHEAST ASIA: HISTORY, MODERNITY, AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE
Al-Albab, 2015 Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia, with more than six hundred million populations, is home to millions of Buddhists, Muslims, Confucians, Protestants, Catholics, and now Pentecostals, as well as many followers of local religions and spiritual beliefs ...
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
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Secularism and NonreligionThe notion of plural societies has often been used to refer to a common feature of many Southeast Asian societies, namely their fragmented diversity under a single political unit. Despite the criticism this concept has received, we argue that it is still
Timo Duile, Prince Kennex Aldama
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Peculiarities of the Spread of Religions in Southeast Asia
, 2022 The article discusses Buddhism and Islam, which are currently main world religions in the region of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia. Among main religions like Hinduism, the spread of these religions also had its own characteristics, in contrast to the
Turdieva, Dilafruz Mahmudjanovna
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Belt and Road Initiative in Northern Myanmar: The Local World of China’s Global Investments
Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 2023 Macro-level discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) firmly establish China as the sole agent in driving infrastructure development. This article contends that often obscured from view by the discourses on China’s dominance are the host country ...
Karin Dean
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Patrilineal perspective on the Austronesian diffusion in Mainland Southeast Asia.
PLoS ONE, 2012 The Cham people are the major Austronesian speakers of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and the reconstruction of the Cham population history can provide insights into their diffusion.
Jun-Dong He +9 more
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Ethical Impact of the Buddhist Samsara and Its Localization in Southeast Asia [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesThe article focuses on the impact of the Buddhist Samsara on ethical construction by exploring its spreading scope, conceptual system, and localization in specific Southeast Asian countries.
Xing Ziyi
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Asian Worldviews: Religions, Philosophies, Political Theories [PDF]
, 2021 Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase of interest in the cultures and regions of South and East Asia, owing in part to the prominent role Asian economies have played in the era of globalization.
Raud, Rein
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Globalization and its discontents in Southeast Asia
, 2013 Something was missing from the Asian Studies conference I attended in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2009: a panel on globalization. Instead, there was one on the impact of climate change in Southeast Asia, and one on the coming "East Asian community." For the ...
van Klinken, G.A. +2 more
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Infrastructural Fragility, Infra-Politics and Jianghu
Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 2023 This commentary responds to Tim Oakes' analysis of infrastructural power by examining the inherent fragility of mobility infrastructures and their political ramifications. It emphasizes the human element in creating and maintaining these infrastructures,
Susanne Brandtstädter
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