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View article: Strategies for Improving Employment Outcomes of Veterans Diagnosed With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Strategies for Improving Employment Outcomes of Veterans Diagnosed With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Open
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been connected to loss of employment, social withdrawal or isolation, impaired occupational functioning, development of a co-existing psychiatric disorder, suicidal ideations, self-harming behavior…
View article: Osvobození jako revoluční praxe
Osvobození jako revoluční praxe Open
In this article, fi rst published in English in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013), pp. 461–99, James Mark Shields analyzes the possibilities and problems of a “Buddhist materialism” constructed along Marxian lines, by focusing in pa…
View article: Future Perfect: Tolstoy and the Structures of Agrarian-Buddhist Utopianism in Taishō Japan
Future Perfect: Tolstoy and the Structures of Agrarian-Buddhist Utopianism in Taishō Japan Open
This study focuses on the role played by the work of Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) in shaping socialism and agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Japan. As Japanese translations of Tolstoy’s fiction and philosophy, and accounts of his life became more…
View article: Workplace learning : meaning, identity and change
Workplace learning : meaning, identity and change Open
This study investigates the perceptions of key stakeholders in multinational organisations concerning workplace education. It also investigates the tensions they experience. It identifies key stakeholders as professionals operating as exec…
View article: Immanent Frames: Meiji New Buddhism and the 'Religious Secular'
Immanent Frames: Meiji New Buddhism and the 'Religious Secular' Open
The secularization thesis, rooted in the idea that “modernity” brings with it the destruction—or, at least, the ruthless privatization—of religion, is clearly grounded in specific, often oversimplified, interpretations of Western historica…
View article: The Scope and Limits of Secular Buddhism: Watanabe Kaikyoku (1868–1912) and the Japanese New Buddhist 'Discovery of Society'
The Scope and Limits of Secular Buddhism: Watanabe Kaikyoku (1868–1912) and the Japanese New Buddhist 'Discovery of Society' Open
Although New Buddhism is a term sometimes employed to refer to the broad sweep of reform and modernization movements in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice beginning in the 1870s, the term shin bukkyō refers more specifically to a broad…
View article: Buddhism (The Conversion of Captain American: Buddhism and Postwar US Popular Culture)
Buddhism (The Conversion of Captain American: Buddhism and Postwar US Popular Culture) Open
View article: Review: Ōtani Ei'ichi, Kindai bukkyō to iu shiza: sensō, Ajia, shakaishugi (The Perspective of Modern Buddhism: War, Asia, Socialism) (Perikansha, 2012).
Review: Ōtani Ei'ichi, Kindai bukkyō to iu shiza: sensō, Ajia, shakaishugi (The Perspective of Modern Buddhism: War, Asia, Socialism) (Perikansha, 2012). Open