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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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The East-West dialogue: methodical diversity and frailties of feminist accounts
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This paper investigates the commonalities and differences of contemporary feminist theories by proffering a comprehensive comparative analysis of the Western feminist agenda and Chinese woman’s concerns in relation to the philosophical discourse on ...
Linghui Nancy Zhou
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Ambedkar and the Buddha's Sangha: A Ground for Buddhist Ethics
Caste, 2021 The saṅgha is one of the three jewels of the Buddhist tradition. While undervalued in many other Anglophone iterations of Buddhist modernism, Ambedkar’s approach to Buddhism placed a reconceptualized saṅgha at the center.
Timothy Loftus
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Patience Stones: Material Encounters for Slow Currents of Pedagogy
International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract This article moves across sites in Canada and Japan with the practice of making Patience Stones (Sang‐e Saboor), a biodegradable, dough‐based artistic and pedagogical object that invites artist–teachers and artist–learners into with‐nessing and slow becoming.
Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Ken Morimoto
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Buddhism in the Public Sphere [PDF]
, 2006 The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things.
Hershock, Peter D.
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To identify nurse practitioners' and registered nurses' willingness to participate in voluntary assisted dying, and the factors that influence these decisions. Design A cross‐sectional design. Methods An online survey was disseminated to members of 16 professional nursing organisations and associations between April and August 2024 ...
Jayne Hewitt +6 more
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, 2022 A short introductory essay on Pure Land Buddhism addressing its history, texts, teachings and internal ...
Dossett, Wendy
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ReligionsThis paper argues that the historical process of the Sinicization of Buddhism and the evolution of the value of female roles in Buddhist beliefs have advanced hand in hand; the more Buddhism becomes Sinicized, the higher the status of women in Buddhist ...
Yun Wang, Shaojiao Zhang
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Religions, 2022 This paper investigates how young Japanese women in contemporary Soka Gakkai (SG) navigate Japan’s continuous gender stratified society that remains culturally rooted in the ‘salaryman-housewife’ ideology.
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
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