Bulletin "Ukrainian Religious Studies"

Aspects of reductionism in religious studies

  Reductionism is a major methodological mistake in research and generally in thought; because it can pose as an obstacle to comprehensive views about the researched issue. This issue is more tangible in religious phenomena - due to the multidimensional entity of this subject – and can be more destructive. A researcher through focusing on one role and aspect of religion and concentrating on a ...

BULLETIN OF THE McGILL CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN AGING

rodegenerative disease diagnosed in the elderly. As the disease progresses, these people gradually lose the ability to learn, to remember and to judge. What leads to the dementia that these people develop? The brains of people with AD are scattered with amyloid plaques. These plaques disrupt the brain's normal tissue organization and cause neuronal cell death. Often, the cholinergic neurons, wh...

Bulletin No. 307 - Progeny Studies with Hereford and Shorthorn Cattle

Bulletin No. 307 - Progeny Studies with Hereford and Shorthorn Cattle

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

This article examines the *Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra, a unique text in the raksạ̄ genre of Buddhist literature dating to the early centuries of the common era. In addition to exploring special features of the vocabulary and meaning of this text, the article places the *Manasvi-nāgarāja-sūtra in the wider context of Buddhist textual and ritual practice in the first, second and third centuries CE.