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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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Kebahagiaan Pada Bhante Theravada [PDF]

, 2012
Kebahagiaan merupakan salah satu aspek penting dalam kehidupan. Kebahagiaan diasosiasikan dengan kesehatan yang baik, kreatifitas yang lebih, pendapatan yang lebih tinggi dan evaluasi tempat kerja yang lebih baik.
Hakisukta, H. (Hakisukta), Saragih, J. I. (Juliana)   +1 more
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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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An Interview with Ajahn Jotipālo: Meditation Leads to Experiential Understanding That What We Think of As Ourselves is Actually Stressful, Unstable & not Really Ourselves

Spirituality Studies, 2019
In the interview with Martin Dojčár, Ajahn Jotipālo discusses a set of issues concerning monastic life in the strict Thai forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism along with fundamental Buddhist spiritual practices and his views on interfaith dialogue ...
Martin Dojčár
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Tea Tree Consecration Ceremony of Bulang Tradition under the Theravāda Buddhism in Laoman’e Village: An Empirical Study

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023
This study focuses on the tea tree consecration ceremony of the Bulang ethnic people in the Laoman’e village of Xishuangbanna (Yunnan) China. The study applied the qualitative research method in the sociological approach to religious studies.
Wenen Yan
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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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From Marginalization to Localization: Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism’s Adaptive Strategies in Theravāda Myanmar

Religions
Tension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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The grinch who stole wisdom [PDF]

, 2013
Dr. Seuss is wise. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Seuss, 1957) could serve as a parable for our time. It can also be seen as a roadmap for the development of contemplative wisdom.
A Gopnik, A Kaplan, AB Wachholtz, AB Wachholtz, B Buddhaghosa, B Knutson, C Bourgeault, C Osgood, C Trungpa, C Trungpa, C Trungpa, C Trungpa, C Trungpa, D Ponlop, D Seuss (Geisel, T, D Snellgrove, D Tsoknyi, DC Willard, E Rosch, E Rosch, E Rosch, F Fremantle, H Benson, J Hayward, J Kabat-Zinn, J Kornfield, JD Teasdale, KI Pargament, KW Brown, M Gordon, M Rosenberg, M Sprung, MB Pennington, MM Linehan, MM Linehan, N Douglas-Klotz, NF Gefen, P Grossman, P Schjeldahl, P Senge, R Davidson, R Davidson, R Geaves, R Sogyal, RA Baer, RB Wall, S Mipham, S Suzuki, SC Hayes, Shantideva, SK Greenland, SK Hookham, T Byrom, T Keating, T Nhat Hanh, T Nhat Hanh, T Nyanaponika, TC Plante, W Rahula, ZV Segal   +59 more
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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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Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory [PDF]

, 2015
This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill and St. Teresa of Avila. It outlines the practice and explores possible theoretical and therapeutic dynamics,
Stoeber, Michael
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