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Shift Buddha relics from museum to a sacred place: Rijiju | Religion in Museums
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When museums and religion collide. Shift Buddha relics from museum to a sacred place: Rijiju. May 18, 2015. By Religion in museums. May 5th issue of the Times of India carried this article by Akshaya Mukul. NEW DELHI: Minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju wants relics bone fragments of Buddha housed in National Museum to be kept in some sacred Buddhist place so that devotees can offer prayers. He also argued that the relics are fragile and could get damaged. Vasudevan’s argument was e...A senio...
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Dogen Zen Ireland.: New Website on Early Irish Buddhism.
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A resource for people in Ireland who are interested in the teachings and practice of Gudo Nishijima and Master Dogen. Monday, March 11, 2013. New Website on Early Irish Buddhism. A new website has been created as a resource for information on the history of Irish Buddhism, early Western Buddhism and the fascinating character of U Dhammaloka (pictured above) a Dublin-born Buddhist convert and anti-colonialist agitator who was active in Asia in the early Twentieth Century. You can access the site HERE.
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BBC article: Why museums are the new churches | Religion in Museums
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When museums and religion collide. BBC article: Why museums are the new churches. August 7, 2015. By Religion in museums. From the BBC website. Why museums are the new churches. Like the cathedrals of bygone eras, galleries are now the ultimate buildings of our times and the way we use them mimics religious rituals, writes Jason Farago. By Jason Farago 16 July 2015. That would be Sunday: the day we used to reserve for another house of worship. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Musings ...
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Books and more | Learning from each other's struggles
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Learning from each other's struggles. This page gives links to websites for my various books and background elsewhere on this site:. We make our own history. Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism. Pluto; co-written with Alf Nilsen, August 2014 – hb, pb, eb). More on this book here. Marxism and social movements. Brill hb, June 2013; co-edited with Colin Barker, Alf Gunvald Nilsen, John Krinsky – Haymarket pb edition May 2014). More on this book here. Silence would be treason. Cambr...
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Ireland’s new religious movements | Learning from each other's struggles
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Learning from each other's struggles. Ireland’s new religious movements. Ireland has long been synonymous with entrenched conflicts between deeply conservative ethno-religious identities, but in recent decades much has changed. The first academic conference devoted to the subject, entitled “ Alternative Spiritualities, the New Age and new religious movements in Ireland. Was appropriately held over a Samhain weekend in Maynooth. I wrote a conference report. Irish Journal of Sociology. October 24, 2013.
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State violence and movements | Learning from each other's struggles
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Learning from each other's struggles. State violence and movements. What enables or constrains states (police forces, armies) in the use of violence against popular movements? And what can movements do in practice to limit the violent options available to the state? These are urgent concerns for movements: in 2004 an amazing group of companer@s worked to pull off an EU summit protest. 8211; and failed. As the very interesting. And so to research. In this book chapter. I ask about how movements can disman...
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Understanding European movements | Learning from each other's struggles
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Learning from each other's struggles. Has brought together a newer generation of researchers shaped by movement participation and with an eye for history and local and national specificity. Together with the Transnational Institute and our sister networks in the ECPR and ESA we co-organised an activist / researcher symposium on social movements and the European crisis in Amsterdam, 2013; some reflections by participants are available here. A co-written piece with Anna Szolucha. One by Ana Dinerstein.
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Changing the world, together | Learning from each other's struggles
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Learning from each other's struggles. Changing the world, together. The struggle to change the world has always brought together different movements and communities, deepening their efforts and creating an ‘ecology of knowledges’ that goes far beyond official ways of seeing the world. In Ireland, 1990s projects like the magazine. Gathering fed into the wider networking process that came to be the ‘movement of movements’. In Ireland, particularly in the. In Dublin, analysed here. February 19, 2014.
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Buddhism and Ireland | Learning from each other's struggles
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Learning from each other's struggles. From the Celts to the counter-culture and beyond. Sheffield: Equinox, 2013) documents the Irish history, which is also explored in an archive of online and other research on Ireland and Buddhism contained at the Dhammaloka Project. Website. There are reviews of the book by Tadhg Foley. Dublin Review of Books. By John L Murphy. Journal of Global Buddhism. The link is to an extended version of the review), by Roberto Bertoni. Buddhist Studies Review,. Lily Rowen in the.