Scholarship on the history of modern India has associated Banaras Hindu University, founded in 1915, with the rise of Hindu nationalism. The intentions of the Pandit Malaviya, probably the most well-known promoter of Hinduism, to foster Hindu identity and unity at BHU have been …
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Over the last decade, the political landscape in India has been dominated by the upsurge of Right-wing Hindu nationalism. Hindu nationalist goals are sought to be achieved through the ideology of communalism. Communalism is both a process and an ideology of collective antagonism…
The historian of Southeast Asian Buddhism faces many questions regarding Buddhist identity. Using the case study of Arakan (western Burma), two critical questions are pursued in this dissertation: why did Theravada Buddhism emerge as a religious identity for the majority of Arak…
Korean's worldview is heavily shaped by Confucianism that seeks cosmic harmony through well-ordered relationships. Individual acts typically are thought to have universal import. Thus one must ever evaluate one's role and duties lest one's own ambitions undermine the corporate p…
Using Face Negotiation Theory (FNT) and its associated assumptions to guide the study, the current project addressed the lack of African centered communication research by conducting a mixed-method study in Uganda and Ethiopia regarding how culture and family socialization patte…
Since Independence, secularism has been central to the ideology of the Indian nation-state. An inextricable part of ‘mature’ nationalism, secularism signified all that was progressive about a modern society. The public identification of religion— ‘communalism’—would result in th…
This thesis examines data from a religion and values survey entitled Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) conducted in the spring of 2018. The data for this research comes from a sample of college undergraduates from diverse nations, Portland State being one …