The spreading power and interactivity of the Internet would not be necessary for the traditional religions that adhere to the communities in Japan. But such communities are changing or vanishing in the modern society. So these religions still need some method to hand over (tradere) their meanings and values to the next generation. Then the Internet comes out as one choice. We will take notice o...

In 1993 The Parliament of the World's Religions produced a declaration known as A Global Ethic which set out fundamental points of agreement on moral tissues between the religions of the world. However, the declaration did not deal explicitly with medical ethics. This article examines Buddhist and Christian perspectives on euthanasia and finds that in spite of their cultural and theological dif...

The modern sociology of religion is founded on the fundamental tension between Weber’s and Durkheim’s approaches to religion. In this article, I want to use the tension between Weber and Durkheim to address fundamental problems in understanding religious modernity, both in the modern West and in contemporary Africa. Weber sought to explain differences in the social effects of the world religion...