Features based on peer-reviewed papers published in Religions.
Professor Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler shows that landmark secular buildings in British-Mandate Jerusalem wove in religious symbols, promoting harmony for British and American sponsors and national identity for Zionist and Palestinian ones.
Dr. Yi Zhao argues that murals in a Toyok cave temple in Xinjiang are among the earliest illustrations of the Visualization Sūtra and served monks as a guide for meditation.
Dr. Carlos Del Rio argues that confession could be validly celebrated by video call, since hearing and seeing the penitent matter more to the sacrament than physical presence.
