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Splendid sculpture and painting from LACMA's permanent collection was packed up about eight years ago. Finally, it's back on ...

This course, Anime and Religious Identity: Cultural Aesthetics in Japanese Spiritual Worlds, helps students explore questions of meaning, ethics and belief that anime brings to life. It examines ...

“Urdu is not a symbol of any religion but throbbing pulse of J&K’s identity”: Waheed Para Criticizes BJP over communalising Urdu "Urdu must be preserved, not just as a language, but as an embodiment ...

Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students look closely at what anime is saying about life.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As a scholar who studies Japanese religion and has a lifelong love of visual ...