In Religion and Democracy in Taiwan, Cheng-tian Kuo meticulously explores various
Taiwanese religions in order to observe their relationships with democracy. Kuo analyzes …

Reflects the current state of scholarship in Buddhist Studies, its entries being written by
specialists in many areas, presenting an accurate overview of Buddhist history, thought and …

Scholars have recently begun to reflect on the potential benefits of “Buddhist organizing” for
organizational theory and practice. However, relatively few scholars have empirically …

The history of state-religion relations in Taiwan from 1945 to the present can be divided into
three stages. The first stage lasted from 1945 to 1987 during which the Leninist state, for the …

While direct democracy is a practical form of self-determination in the political process, the
value system stemming from a given country's social and cultural factors has been argued to …

This chapter explains the variation among the postures of major religious organizations in
Asia concerning their political involvement in democratic politics. The literature of Asian …

With its resourceful media practice and insistence on a (neo-Buddhist) this-worldly theology,
the Buddhist Compassion Relief Foundation (Tzu Chi or Ciji) has constructed a unique …

This paper studies the phenomenal contribution of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement from the
perspective of economics by focusing on entrepreneurship, which aspires to alter an …

本文以World Values Survey (2005-2006) 在中國與台灣的問卷調查為根據,
比較兩岸人民的宗教信仰對於政治態度的影響. 針對[基督教與民主相容] 的理論 …

The Structure of Constraints: Social Networks of Immigrants from Taiwan This study looks at
the social incorporation of affluent first generation immigrants from Taiwan who migrate to …