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Efficacious Surroundings: Temple Space and Buddhist Well-being |
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Walsh, Michael J.
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| Source |
Journal of Religion & Health
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| Volume | v.46 n.4 |
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| Date | 2007.12 |
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| Pages | 471 - 479 |
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| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media B.V. |
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http://www.springer.com/gp/
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| Location | Dordrecht, the Netherlands [多德雷赫特, 荷蘭] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Michael J. Walsh, Department of Religion, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA |
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| Keyword | Buddhism; Temple space; Religion; Centrality; Well-being; Praxis |
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| Abstract | This essay argues that the prospect of health and well-being from a Buddhist perspective must take into account an understanding of religiosity as a process of becoming, a culturally and contextually defined praxis of what and who it is we are and would like to become. It is in this process of becoming that a space of healing is made possible. It is not simply that Buddhist temple space is ‘good’ in some sort of clinical manner, but rather that it is active in its will to achieve a space of becoming healthy and whole |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 471
Health Defined 472
Health Refined 473
Historical Overview 474
Negotiating Sacrality 476
Sacred Space 476
Conclusion: Levels of Spatiality 478
References 478 |
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| ISSN | 00224197 (P); 15736571 (E) |
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| Hits | 692 |
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| Created date | 2008.03.25 |
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| Modified date | 2019.11.14 |
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