Religious change and experimentation in Indonesian Hinduism

Archaeology of religious change: introduction

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The Life of Hinduism

Hinduism and Ecology Conference Participants and Abstracts

of paper: Can Hindu Beliefs and Values Help India Meet its Ecological Crisis? India is facing a serious social and ecological crisis. The devastation of the natural resource base has increaed poverty and increasingly constitutes a serious threat to public health. The Hindu beliefs, values and practices, built on a 'utilitarian conservationism' rather than a 'protectionist conservationsism,' can...

Personality and change in the frequency of religious observance

Summery-EPQ Psychoticism (P) is thought to be fundamental to religiosity (Francis, 1992a), while Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E) and Lie dimensions (L) are not consistently found to be associated with religious beliefs and behaviours. Among 6463 Anglican, Other Protestant and Catholic Australian twins (aged 17-88yr), we found that men and women who attended church regularly had low P and low ...

The Indonesian throughflow, its variability and centennial change

The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) is an important component of the upper cell of the global overturning circulation that provides a low-latitude pathway for warm, fresh waters from the Pacific to enter the Indian Ocean. Variability and changes of the ITF have significant impacts on Indo-Pacific oceanography and global climate. In this paper, the observed features of the ITF and its interannual t...