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Religions, Volume 11, Issue 4

April 2020 - 63 articles

Cover Story: Folio 348 of the dispersed 355-page palm-leaf manuscript of the Sanskrit Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra from Nepal, c. 1100, has six paintings, three on the recto and three on the verso, instead of the usual single image in the center of the recto. With depictions of Mañjuśrī, Avalokiteśvara, another bodhisattva vanquishing heretics, and a Buddhist priest setting fire to a Brahmanical rishi, the paintings on Folio 348 also differ in subject matter from other known folios of the manuscript. This shift in visual presentation at the end of the manuscript corresponds to a change from the prose text of Sudhana’s pilgrimage to the protective dhāraṇī verses that close the sūtra. The change in both textual content and visual imagery suggests that the artists were aware of the structure of the Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra and used paintings to signal the transition. View this paper
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Articles (63)

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  • Open Access
4,557 Views
8 Pages

23 April 2020

In 2016, Canada legalized Bill C-14, which removed from the Criminal Code medical assistance in dying (MAID) under certain circumstances. In essence, the Bill legalized what is commonly described as euthanasia, under the provisions that the patient h...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,827 Views
16 Pages

23 April 2020

In liberal democracies, fundamental rights and freedoms can conflict, and if they do, it is not always clear which right the state should prioritize. Should the right of parents to choose education in line with their own convictions prevail, or shoul...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,653 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2020

Due to its specific history, Saudi Arabia’s domestic and international politics are inextricably linked together. In the shaping and implementation of the kingdom’s essentially defensive international behavior, Islam has kept a central po...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,331 Views
18 Pages

The Relevance of God to Religious Believers and Non-Believers

  • Ângela Leite,
  • Diogo Guedes Vidal,
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis,
  • Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e Sousa and
  • Paulo Dias

22 April 2020

This study presents a review about what great figures of history thought about the existence of God and a worldwide comparison between religious believers and non-believers using the World Social Survey (WSS) database, comprising a sample of 90,350 r...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,640 Views
14 Pages

22 April 2020

This paper looks at the interactions between Buddhism and Confucianism in the late Chosŏn era through a case study of Kwanŭm (Avalokiteśvara) divination and, thereby, attempts to demonstrate how Buddhist monks navigated their religion in a Confucian-...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,048 Views
13 Pages

21 April 2020

Terrorism is commonly considered to be a controversial issue in religious education (RE). RE teachers find it a challenging topic to address, and many avoid it altogether. This article explores the question of addressing terrorism in RE by analysing...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,309 Views
11 Pages

20 April 2020

Living in a time of urgent ecological crisis, Christians need outdoor ritual experience of their faith: of what is wild, of the living Earth, stranger faces of the divine: taking eco-alienated people out of the building and into the streets, the rive...

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