This is a dialogue between Paulos Huang (Professor at Shanghai University) and Xianglong Zhang on the cooperation in Filial Piety of Family Confucianism Christianity. It includes following issues: How has Professor Lin HE influenced to study philosophy? Zhang’s Phenomenology Daoism USA. changed his focus from into Chinese traditions after he returned China USA? The potentiality Christianity fil...

Spiritual well-being is the ability to develop harmonious relationships with himself, others, universe (environment), and transcendental aspects. In Islamic perspective, these values are reflected in way of view, attitudes behaviors called morals (akhlak). The implementation moral everyday life, will form a person who has personal piety, social, environmental, ritual spiritual. This multidimens...

Japan presents a unique social laboratory in which to examine how family support impacts on older adults' psychological wellbeing. This is because of its cultural climate where distinctively different expectations of old-age independence and the traditional norm of filial piety coexist. This study investigated how structural and functional dimensions of the family support of older Japanese pare...

Previous research has shown how filial piety is strong among people of Iranian background and that traditional Iranian culture result in most families' preferring to care for their elderly (and sick) family members at home. While acknowledging this, this article highlights what living in diaspora could mean in terms of cultural adaption and changing family values. By interviewing people with Ir...

Using interview data from 30 Tibetan elders living in India and Switzerland, the paper explores the support they received, their perception of intergenerational relationships, and their acceptance of different levels of intergenerational exchange. All of the sample had aged in either India or Switzerland and so provide excellent comparison groups, from respectively a developing and a developed ...

This paper examines how adult children's expressed filial piety, receipt of help from parents, socioeconomic resources, and parents' needs are associated with the likelihood of parent-child coresidence in contemporary China. Drawing on the 2002 wave of the Chinese Survey of Family Dynamics and the 2002 wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we used logistic regression to ana...

Hıristiyanlıkta çıplaklık konusu, tarih boyunca çeşitli yönleriyle ele alınmış, farklı alanların ana konusu olmuştur. Bazı Hıristiyan mistikleri, özellikle de Orta Çağ'da, ve bedensel yoksunluk uygulamaları yoluyla kendilerini Tanrıya daha yakın hissetmişlerdir. Fakat çıplaklıkla ilgili esas problem, İsa'nın gelişiyle Tevrat hukukunun tümden kalkıp kalkmadığı bunun Hıristiyanları konusunda özgü...