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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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Analysis of the Relationship between Brain Waves in Electroencephalography (EEG) and Concentration Meditation Practice in Theravāda Buddhism

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023
Nowadays in Western countries, there is much interest in studies of Buddhist meditation practice. This article is focused on an analysis of the relationship between brainwaves in electroencephalography (EEG) and concentration practices in Theravāda ...
Nopporn Klunsupha
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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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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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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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Menorah Review (No. 35, Fall, 1995) [PDF]

, 1995
Jewish Path, Buddhist Path: Do They Meet? -- Sparks of Light -- Jewish-Americans and American Sports: Memory, Identity and Assimilation -- How to Develop the Moral Personality -- Political and the Nationalist Judaism -- Litigation -- Book ...

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What Is a Good Death in South Asia? A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 653-677, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Introduction To deliver palliative care, it is important to understand what a “good death” means to the relevant people. Such studies have mostly occurred in high‐income settings that usually live by Western ideals. What matters to people is likely to vary across different regions of the world, influenced by multiple factors. Although there is
Lihini Wijeyaratne, Odette Spruijt, Saroj Jayasinghe, Sumit Kane, Udayangani Ramadasa, Jennifer Philip   +5 more
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How Can Religion Shape Pro‐Environmental Behavior in a Materialistic World? Contrasting Idealism With Realism Religious Epics

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das, Weng Marc Lim, Subhrajit Paul, Abhirupa Roy, Sonal Purohit   +4 more
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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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Aspects and values of buddhism for the women of the west [PDF]

, 1999
Living in India, which is not yet linked into the electronic autobahn at quite the screaming pace of the rest of the world, I received my information about this conference in two barely legible faxes, which arrived more than three weeks apart and ...
Napper, Elizabeth
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