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Religion, Politics, and Migration in Brazil: The Search for a Cartography of a Field
This article aims to map out research on religion, politics, and migration in Latin America, with special emphasis on Brazil. It begins by...
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The Dialectic Between Japanese Immigration and Japanese-Ethnic Buddhism in Brazil
Brazil hosts over 40% of all Buddhist institutions established in Latin America and the Caribbean. This includes a significant contingent of temples...
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Religion and Migration: Visual Representations of Venezuelan Migration in Brazil
This article examines the humanitarian crisis stemming from Venezuelan migration to Brazil, focusing on the intersection between religion and...
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Making More Sense: A Confucian-Hermeneutic Path to Aesthetics
The paper endeavors to provide a perspective on aesthetics that proceeds from the original Greek meaning of “aesthetics” as “what is perceived by the...
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A Nishitanian Ethics of Sympathy
In this article, I will present a construction of a Nishitanian ethics of sympathy primarily based on passages from Nishitani Keiji’s principal work...
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A Severance of Union. Catholicism, Social Transformations, and State–Church Relations in Peru in the Late Twentieth Century
This article explores how in Peru, where a close union between the state and the Catholic Church endured until the mid-twentieth century, and where...
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Unwelcome Migrant Churches—A Case Study of the Portrayal of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in German-Speaking Online Press
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the portrayal of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in German-speaking online press....
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Beyond Religious Affiliations: Profiles of Religiosity and Institutional Belonging in Contemporary Argentina
Quantitative studies on religion are usually characterized by drawing a map of religiosity in a given society, based on socio-demographic variables...
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King Death: The Origins and Identity of Guatemalan and Mexican Skeleton Saint, Rey Pascual
This article delves into the intriguing origins and identity of the folk saint Rey Pascual, a syncretic figure venerated in Guatemala and Mexico. Rey...
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Weaving Borders, Resorting to Beliefs: The Role of Religion in the Migratory Trajectories of Intracontinental Migrants in Latin America
This article seeks to problematise the relationship between migration and religion by exploring the different uses that migrants make of religion in...
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“The Logic of Species”: A Translation of Tosaka Jun’s Commentary on Tanabe Hajime
In this translation of his 1936 essay, Tosaka Jun critically examines Tanabe Hajime’s “logic of species,” paying particular attention to its basis,...
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Pentecostalism and Slum: Challenges for the Understanding of Everyday Religious Experiences on the Margins
The work approaches the limits of the concepts of Pentecostalism, considering the religious and political experiences of a Pentecostal leader...
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Watsuji Tetsurō’s Memory of Natsume Sōseki: A Translation of “Until I met Sōseki” and “Sōseki’s Character”
The following translation is an extract from the third chapter of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Hidden Japan [埋もれた日本]
1951 . The translation is composed of two... -
The Self-Knowledge of Not-Self: On the Problem of Modern Buddhism and the Basic Character of the Buddha’s Teaching
Contemporary proponents of modern Buddhism argue that the Buddha’s teaching, in contrast to later Buddhist-inspired philosophies and folklore, is of...
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Can Wuwei and Ziran Authorise Anticipation?: Death, Desire, and Autonomy in the Zhuangzi
The concept of anticipation, on the one hand, has received a considerable treatment in classical phenomenology, particularly in Husserl. The Zhuangzi ,...