Abstract. This review discusses the book Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovich. From the Archive: Selected Works on Shamanism, 1934–1936 (2018), prepared for publication by the Russian researchers Marianna Shakhnovich and Ekaterina Teryukova. The review briefly summarizes the book and discusses its design, focusing particularly on those scholars who compiled the archival materials. The discussion then...
Abstract. This article examines the phenomenon of secular Buddhism, its origins, primary influences, characteristics and representatives. It explores the key ideas underlying the movement and traces the origins of secular Buddhism in the context of the 20th century conversation between Buddhism and Western scientific and philosophiical thought. Examining the work of figures such as Robert...