This chapter focuses on a male-centred context and analyses the role of spiritual practices in
refashioning conceptions and performances of masculinity. Drawing on an intensive …

How is morality related to cooperation? One common model posits that morality facilitates
cooperation, insofar as the adherence to explicit rules or guidelines for collective practices …

This ground-breaking book explores and explains the day-to-day realities of living long-term
with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). ME is an acquired complex disorder characterised by …

Abstract This article explores Amartya Sen's understanding of freedom, and performs two
central functions, one classificatory and the other substantive in nature. First, I situate his …

This chapter is a study of modernized interpretations of the Indian philosophical system
Advaita (“nondual”) Vedanta that were popularized in the West from around the nineteenth …

Sociology has increasingly drawn on concepts from the cognitive sciences to better theorize
and measure culture, particularly nondeclarative personal culture beneath the level of …

Статья посвящена молчанию как важнейшей составляющей курса випассаны (техники
медитации из раннего буддизма)-в той форме, как ее преподают по всему миру в …

This dissertation examines phenomenological embodiment via an analysis of the
experiences of solid organ transplant recipients. Attending to breakdown at the level of the …

Society, culture, and the state profoundly impact the body; bodily practices also play active
roles in combating social ills and (re) constituting heterodox cultural mores. This paper …

Zusammenfassung Anhand des Exempels einer Praktizierenden des Theravāda-
Buddhismus bietet Harth in seinem Beitrag einen empirisch geleiteten Zugang zu …