The Caste Connection. On the Sacred Foundations of Social Hierarchy by Jakob De Roover, Sarah Claerhout

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Understanding Human Organ Trading: Ethical Perspective and Indonesia's Legal Framework by Dedy Indriyanto, Liliana Tedjosaputro, Totok Tumangkar, Afif Noor

Subjects: “…Human organ trading, ethics, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Indonesian law.…”
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“An Ancient System of Caste”: How the British Law against Caste Depends on Orientalism by Prakash Shah

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MATERIAL BASIS OF ETHICAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS DESIRE IN ANCIENT EASTERN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS by S. V. Alushkin

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Unity in Diversity: Coinfluence of Basic Mythological and Philosophical Systems of India by O. G. Ulltsiferov

“…The article examines one of the main questions of intercommunications between main religious and cultural systems in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. The article, using detailed factual material, focuses the similarities and differences between those systems, results in the basic data regarding ontology, cosmology, ethics and sociology of those systems. …”
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Unity in Diversity: the Interaction of Literature and Art of the Major Religious and Cultural Systems of India by O. G. Ultsiferov

“…The article examines one of the main questions of intercommunications between main religious and cultural systems in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity in literature and art. …”
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Męczeństwo – chrześcijańska wyłączność? by Krzysztof Kościelniak

“…Martyrdom as a phenomenon peculiar to monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) has also analogies in Far East belief systems (e.g. Buddhism, Shinto, Hinduism, Sikhism). The phenomenon of suicide martyrdom – not only specific to Islamic religion – forms of fundamental values of self-sacrifice as a supreme ideal – a God (gods) – given opportunity – for salvation of the soul, as much as for redemption of society and state. …”
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Religious plurality in Africa: A challenge to the church

“…Major religions in the country such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and African Traditional Religion have to learn to live harmoniously with one another and importantly, to cooperate in projects of sociopolitical nature. …”
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Being an assistant to a shaman by Tanka Subba

“…In the end, the author shows concern for the future of shamanism, as it seems to be losing out to organised religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.…”
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Regard sur les statuettes hindoues et bouddhiques en bronze d’Indonésie. Leur rôle pour la connaissance de la civilisation javanaise ancienne et ses liens avec l’Asie du Sud et du... by Mathilde Mechling

“…The bronzes enable us to better understand the nature and directions of the religious and artistic exchanges in this part of Asia, where Buddhism and Hinduism greatly inspired the material culture. A comparative study of the styles and iconographies of the bronzes found in Indonesia and those discovered in India reveals the exact regions with which there was contact as well as the historical period. …”
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Relations of Society Concepts and Religions from Wikipedia Networks by Klaus M. Frahm, Dima L. Shepelyansky

“…We establish five poles of influence for society concepts (Law, Society, Communism, Liberalism, Capitalism) as well as five poles for religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese folk religion) and determine how they affect other entries. …”
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Gender Based Violence Reporting System: A Case Study Kabale University Police Station. by Mbaine, Abert

“…Three categories of states have emerged from the analysis: states where the majority of inhabitants are without religious affiliation, which display the lowest levels of gender inequality; Christian and Buddhist societies, with average levels of gender inequality; and states with the highest levels of gender inequality across the observed variables, whose inhabitants adhere to Islam and Hinduism. Gender inequalities can be defined as culturally and socially created differences between men and women when both sexes do not have the same share in the decision-making and wealth of a society (Ridgeway, 2004). 2 We understand religion as an ideology that affects the socio-political practices of a society and as a complex cultural system of meanings, symbols, and behaviors in communities (Stump, 2008)…”
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The Impact of Religion on Moral Development in Kabale Diocese; A Case Study of Southern Division Kabale Municipality. by Musiimenta, Asia

“…One of the reasons why many people regard religion as an obstacle to moral development is that religious attitudes are commonly thought to be socially conservative, for example, the views of the catholic church about contraception, Islamic views about the role of women and their access to education, or the centrality of caste to Hinduism. The purpose of the study will be to examine the impact of religion on moral development in Kabale Diocese; A case study of southern division Kabale Municipality.…”
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Dominant Religion, Radical Right-Wing, and Social Trust: An Empirical Investigation by Nazlı Keyifli, Jinyoung Hwang, Sacit Hadi Akdede

“…It is found that people living in Asian countries where Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Shintoism are the dominant religions trust others more than people living in Christian and Muslim countries. …”
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Internalization of character education values in the creative process of lontar transcripts of STKIP agama Hindu Amlapura students by I Wayan Jatiyasa, Ni Wayan Apriani, Ni Kadek Ayu Paramanandani

“…This study aims to analyze the character education values integrated in the lontar transcription of STKIP Hinduism Amlapura students. This research is a qualitative research, with the locus of research at STKIP Agama Hindu Amlapura. …”
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25 Years of Politology of Religion by Miroljub Jevtić

“… The increasing influence of religion in politics - a  fact which was suddenly noticed after the Iranian Islamic revolution, the role of religion in the downfall of the Warsaw Pact and socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the resurgence of Hinduism by using the Bharatia Janata Party in India, the increasing importance of Judaism as a political ideology in Israel along with other examples from different religions, all together represented a challenge for political science. …”
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