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Deity practice in the FPMT: understanding the nature of the Tibetan Buddhist deity from the Western practitioner’s perspective FPMT中的神性修持:从西方修持者的角度理解藏传佛教神性的本质

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1627376

Glenys Eddy

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引用次数: 1

From religious emotions to affects: historical and theoretical reflections on injury to feeling, self and religion 从宗教情感到情感:对情感、自我与宗教伤害的历史与理论反思

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1603168

N. Y. Ural, A. L. Berg

引用次数: 10

Cosplay in the pulpit and ponies at prayer: Christian faith and lived religion in wider fan culture 在讲坛上的角色扮演和祈祷中的小马:基督教信仰和更广泛的粉丝文化中的生活宗教

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1624268

Andrew Crome

引用次数: 4

Gender, sect and shrine: discursive contestations at Bibi Pak Daman, Lahore 性别，教派和神社:拉合尔比比帕克达曼的话语争论

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571520

V. Kalra, U. Ibad

引用次数: 0

Food, festival and religion. materiality and place in Italy 食物、节日和宗教。物质性和在意大利的地位

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1572293

Anna Perdibon

引用次数: 3

Ethical narratives, street kitchens and doing religious difference amongst post-migrant communities in contemporary Britain 当代英国后移民社区的道德叙事、街头厨房和宗教差异

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571523

John Zavos

引用次数: 5

Hackneying hybridity? Fending off ‘foreignness’, Khoja Community and hybridisation in The Magic of Saida 破解杂交？在《赛达的魔法》中抵御“外来”、Khoja社区和杂交

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571521

S. Bhat

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引用次数: 3

‘Everyone who wants to, can be a Körtti’: how young people negotiate the religious space of a revivalist movement “每个人都可以成为Körtti”:年轻人如何在复兴运动的宗教空间中谈判

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571522

Paula Nissilä

引用次数: 1

Untying tongues: negotiations and innovations of faith and gender among Malaysian Christian trans men 解开舌头：马来西亚基督教跨性别男性信仰和性别的谈判与创新

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2018.1562482

Joseph N. Goh

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引用次数: 7

(Un)believing in modern society: religion, spirituality, and religious-secular competition 信仰现代社会：宗教、精神和宗教世俗竞争

Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1572099

Claire Wanless

引用次数: 30