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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 746-756, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Building a Culture of Care in Laboratory Animal Science through practicing “remembrance”: A reflection on local practices in Sri Lanka

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 9, Page 1725-1728, September 2025.
This flowchart shows how remembrance activities create space for emotional reflection, helping individuals respect and acknowledge their feelings about working with lab animals, and enhance team commitment to improve lab animal welfare. This emotional awareness can reduce compassion fatigue fueled by cultural and religious beliefs and promote human ...
A. D. D. S. Amarasekara, K. A. A. U. Karunarathna, W. M. K. M. Ratnayake, A. A. I. Senevirathne, P. Yapa, M. Gunatilake   +5 more
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Monks, Blogs and Three Media Cases: Russian-Speaking Buddhist Communities in the Era of Social Media

Religions
This paper focuses on the problem of how Buddhism was reinstitutionalized in Russia in the frame of the meta process of mediatization. The empirical part of this study included two stages and was conducted during 2020–2024.
Elena Ostrovskaya, Timur Badmatsyrenov
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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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Gerontocracy of the Buddhist monastic administration in Thailand

Simulacra, 2021
This paper examines the monastic administration in Thai Buddhism, which is ruled by the senior monks and supported by the government. It aims to answer two questions; (1) why the Sangha’s administration has been designed to serve the bureaucratic system ...
Jesada Buaban
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Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
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Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body

Religions, 2014
Buddhism has been seen, at least since the Theravāda reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as particularly compatible with Western science.
Geoffrey Samuel
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Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 292-304, August 2025.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand, focusing on the transition from traditional Buddhist chant to contemporary rap. Employing Pierre Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital and the sociology of music, this article aims to show how this shift in Buddhist music mirrors broader transformations ...
Wai‐Chung Ho
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“Intelligence Running Wild”: Edward Podvoll (1936–2003) and the Unfolding of the “Contemplative Psychotherapy” Project

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the origins and development of the “contemplative psychotherapy” project in the United States, emerging around psychoanalyst Edward Podvoll and the intellectual environment at Naropa University during the 1970s and 1980s.
Tommaso Priviero
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On the Buddhist roots of contemporary non-religious mindfulness practice: Moving beyond sectarian and essentialist approaches

Temenos, 2016
Mindfulness-based practice methods are entering the Western cultural mainstream as institutionalised approaches in healthcare, education, and other public spheres. The Buddhist roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and comparable mindfulness-
Ville Husgafvel
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