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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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ReligionsThis article examines the concept of female-to-male transformation in Daoism inner alchemy for women (nüdan 女丹) and Buddhism, both of which have records of female practitioners and nuns being required to transform their bodies into men, such as “women ...
Qiongke Geng
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
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Buddhism in the Nordic Countries
This book provides new unprecedented research on Buddhism in the five Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Aiming at comparisons between the different Nordic countries, the chapters identify possible unique characteristics of ...
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What Is non-attachment in Buddhism?
, 2022 Answer to the question, What Is Non-Attachment in ...
Jones, Dhivan Thomas
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The present study examines how religion shapes partnership formation and religious homogamy among Syrian and Afghan male refugees who arrived in Germany during the 2015/16 influx. It provides new insights by focusing on a particularly vulnerable group of refugees who are culturally distant from the host society and comparing them to ...
Jana Kuhlemann +3 more
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Reproductive care in Thai women with diabetes mellitus: a descriptive cross-sectional study
Reproductive Health, 2023 Background Pre-existing diabetes mellitus (DM) is a challenging pregnancy complication as poor glycemic control is associated with adverse maternal and fetal outcomes.
Kritat Pothongsangarun +9 more
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Two candidate cases of multiple personhood
Mind &Language, EarlyView.The split‐brain phenomenon and dissociative identity disorder (DID) have been posed as candidate cases of multiple persons in one body. Philosophers have typically argued that DID subjects are better candidates for multiple personhood because their behavior is more disunified.
Elizabeth Schechter
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While the study of modern Buddhism has advanced significantly in recent decades, research on women and gender within modern Buddhism has lagged behind. This special section explores the roles of women in Nichiren Buddhism, with a particular focus on the ...
GODART, Clinton
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Women Empowerment in Buddhism : The Elimination of Gender Inequality
Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2017 The empowerment of women is one of the solutions to the problems of inequality, subordination and marginalization that women face in the society. However this kind of empowerment is only partial, for all though they have economic and political power ...
Sitthiporn Khetjoi +2 more
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