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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 201-218, March 2026.
Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Anna‐Maria Frastali, Adhip Rawal
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Cultural differences in revenge fantasies using drawings: A comparative study between Indians and Thais

open access: yesAsian Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract Unjust events cause humiliation and can elicit revenge fantasies. The present study explored cultural differences between Indians and Thais expressing revenge fantasies through drawings and narratives. A matched convenience sample of 100 adults, that is, 50 participants each (35 females and 15 males) from India and Thailand were recruited. The
Meghna Girish   +3 more
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Monks, Blogs and Three Media Cases: Russian-Speaking Buddhist Communities in the Era of Social Media

open access: yesReligions
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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand and Hawai‘i [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Introduction to the JGB Special Focus section, "Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism ‘South of the West’: Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaiʻi." In this special issue, we endeavour to explore horizontal flows and counter flows of Buddhism on ‘paths less ...
Rocha, Cristina (R11182)   +5 more
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Building a Culture of Care in Laboratory Animal Science through practicing “remembrance”: A reflection on local practices in Sri Lanka

open access: yesAnimal 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   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

open access: yesReligion 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
wiley   +1 more source

Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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