Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 247: The Dialectical of Life and Death in Contemporary Sōka Gakkai Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11050247 Authors: Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen Doctrinal reasoning, the practice of chanting nam-myōho-renge-kyō and its vision for kōsen-rufu has been how Sōka Gakkai (SG) promulgated Nichiren Buddhism. This paper explores, in an in-depth anthropological manner, how doctrinal issues matter significantly in the meaning of funeral practices in contemporary SG. So-called...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 246: Polish Nationwide Catholic Opinion-Forming Weeklies on Facebook—A Marketing Perspective Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11050246 Authors: Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała Andrzej Adamski The main focus of this paper is on the marketing approach of the use of Facebook by the Polish nationwide Catholic opinion-forming weeklies. The aim of the research is to analyse how the selected media use Facebook (FB) to create a media product, distribute,...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 245: Ritual Treatment of Fortunate and Unfortunate Dead by the Chinese Redemptive Society Déjiāo in Thailand Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11050245 Authors: Bernard Formoso This paper compares the ritual management of fortunate and unfortunate dead (hungry ghosts) by a Chinese new religious movement named Déjiāo 徳教 (lit. Teaching of Virtue), which emerged in Chaozhou (the northeast of Guangdong province) in 1939, before spreading to Southeast Asia after...
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