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Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery
Disasters, Volume 49, Issue 4, October 2025.Abstract Faith and faith communities play a critical role in post‐disaster recovery for at least three reasons. First, faith is a socially shared frame through which individuals understand a disaster and evaluate potential means of recovery. Second, faith is a driver or motivator of post‐disaster recovery, providing inspiration, encouragement, and ...
Virgil Henry Storr +2 more
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In Response: Geoff Childs, Culture Change in the Name of Cultural Preservation Himalaya 24, (1-2) [PDF]
, 2005 Response to Geoff Childs\u27 article in Himalaya vol.
Mills, Martin
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Why is traditional polygamy unjust? Implications for egalitarian nonmonogamy
Journal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 446-464, September 2025.Abstract The notion of equality attracts both proponents and critics of nonmonogamy. Inequality is a widely discussed objection to nonmonogamy. Simultaneously, equality is highlighted as a core value in ethical nonmonogamy. The notions of equality and inequality in these debates have not been clearly conceptualized.
Perri Sriwannawit
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Гуманитарный вектор, 2019 The article presents a review of the monograph “Buddhism in Mongolia: History, Clergy, Monasteries” written by a famous Russian scholar Tsymzhit Purbuevna Vanchikova.
Bazarov A.A.
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Buddhism\u27s Worldly Other: Secular Subjects of Tibetan Learning [PDF]
, 2016 By analyzing the writings of select Tibetan authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this article reflects on the prestige attached to secular (but not anti-religious) knowledge, and the ambivalence prominent thinkers expressed around the ...
Townsend, Dominique
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Pluriversal bodies: Researching care through embodied ethnography
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 198-204, August 2025.Abstract In this research note, I outline an approach to embodied experiences of care and caregiving in ethnographic scholarship on care. I describe how ethnographers of care and caregiving can use embodied methodologies, particularly through attending also to the cross‐cultural differences in embodied experiences.
Kelly Dombroski
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Interpreting the Diamond Way: Contemporary Convert Buddhism in Transition
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015 This paper addresses the broader issues of continuity and change during the transition of Tibetan Buddhism from Asia to the West. It looks at the Diamond Way, a contemporary Karma bKa' brgyud lay movement founded by the Danish lay teacher Ole Nydahl. The
Burkhard Scherer
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Távol-keleti TanulmányokDávid Jónás' review of the volume Saraha’s Spontaneous Songs: With the Commentaries by Advayavajra and Mokṣākaragupta. (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.) by Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Péter-Dániel Szántó.
Dávid Jónás
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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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Revue du Droit des ReligionsBhutanese law has inherited certain Indo-Tibetan Buddhist systems, which bear the imprint of political and legal thought linked to Buddhism. From the 17th century onwards, it developed its own codes of law, embodying the Buddhist project of eudemonistic ...
Paul Baffier
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