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Religion as practices of attachment and materiality: the making of Buddhism in contemporary London [PDF]
, 2016 This article aims to explore Buddhism’s often-overlooked presence on London’s urban landscape, showing how its quietness and subtlety of approach has allowed the faith to grow largely beneath the radar. It argues that Buddhism makes claims to urban space
Barker Eileen +35 more
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Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT Background Many people treated in Talking Therapies services have highly complex needs which are not always met by the treatment offered. Emotional skills groups based on adaptations of dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) have been offered to meet complex needs, but little is known about clients' experiences of these.
Emma Bonnin +3 more
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The Life as the Meaning (An investigation on the meaning of life in Zen and the comparison of it with theistic religions) [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2013 In Analytic philosophy, when the topic of the life’s meaning comes up, primarily the concept of words of “meaning” and “life” is clarified. The analytic philosophers, often, have explained “meaning” in two senses: 1-The life’s aim 2-The life’s value or ...
Amirabbas Alizamani, Neda Khoshaghani
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Yinyuan Longqi’s “Huangbo” Writing and the Construction of “Authenticity”
ReligionsYinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 was a pivotal figure in Sino–Japanese cultural exchange. His journey to Japan to propagate Buddhism, founding of the Ōbaku sect (Huangbo zong 黃檗宗), emphasis on the orthodoxy of his Zen teachings, and crafting of an “authentic ...
Zurong Yang, Yinyu Wu
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Buddhism, Beauty, and Virtue [PDF]
, 2017 The chapter challenges hyperbolic claims about the centrality of appreciation of beauty to Buddhism. Within the texts, attitudes are more mixed, except for a form of 'inner beauty' - the beauty found in the expression of virtues or wisdom in forms of ...
Cooper, David
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis
Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 43-59, April 2026.
Georgie Newson
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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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Inviting the Esoteric into the Exoteric: Contemporary Challenges in American Zen Buddhism
ReligionsAs Zen Buddhism continues into its second century in the United States, the practices and philosophies transmitted have gone through major, though necessary transformations.
Malik J. M. Walker
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Religion vs. Spirituality: A Contemporary Conundrum [PDF]
, 2003 The problem with which this essay is concerned is perhaps peculiar to contemporary first world western culture. It is, like many of our cultural problems such as inclusivity, addictions, and family breakdown, ironically a product, to a large extent, of ...
Schneiders, Sandra Marie
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Manifesting: New Thought Takes on New Life Among Adolescents in the COVID‐Era United States
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2025.ABSTRACT “Manifesting,” a metaphysical spiritual practice that claims that one's mind has the power to attract anything upon which it is focused, came roaring onto the social media scene in 2020, just a few months into the COVID‐19 pandemic. Google searches for the term shot up by 600% and by mid‐2024, videos related to manifestation had amassed over ...
Kristen M. Balzer
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