Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin SCHONTHAL ◽  
Tom GINSBURG
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
State Law ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Study ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Legal Activism ◽  
The Comparative Study

AbstractThis introduction to the special issue on Buddhism and law lays out an agenda for the socio-legal study of contemporary Buddhism. We identify lacunae in the current literature and call for further work on four themes: the relations between monastic legal practice and state law; the formations of Buddhist constitutionalism; Buddhist legal activism and Buddhist-interest litigation; and Buddhist moral critiques of law. We argue that this agenda is important for advancing Buddhist studies and for the comparative study of law and legal institutions.

Comparative Law as the Study of Transplants and Receptions

2006 ◽  
pp. 440-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Graziadei
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Comparative Study

The comparative study of transplants and receptions investigates contacts of legal cultures and explores the complex patterns of change triggered by them. The study of legal transfers offers considerable intellectual rewards. It shows that the law is a complex phenomenon and corrects simplistic views regarding what law is and how it develops. The spread of legal institutions, ideals, ideologies, doctrines, rules, and so on, is often in the hands of professional elites. The study of transplants and receptions demonstrates that the knowledge and standing of those elites comes from interactions between the local and non-local dimensions of the law, that is, between the national and international spheres. This picture is true in Berlin and in New York, in London and in Lima, but it is also true in less cosmopolitan environments.

G. I. Gurdjieff and the Study of Religion/s

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Sutcliffe ◽  
Carole M. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
General Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
New Religion

This is an introduction by the guest editors to a special issue on the study of Gurdjieff approached within the comparative study of religion/s. We position this special issue within a new wave in the study of Gurdjieff that aims to eschew emic biases as well as a narrow ‘new religion’ typology in order better to engage the social, cultural and textual histories common to the general study of religion/s. We briefly indicate the existing scholarship on Gurdjieff in this light before introducing the contents of the five original articles in this special issue, with particular reference to the pioneering work of Andrew Rawlinson on Gurdjieff as a ‘western guru’.

scholarly journals Other-repetition in conversation across languages: Bringing prosody into pragmatic typology

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-520
Author(s):  
Giovanni Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Natural Conversation ◽  
Aims And Scope ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Conversational Structure ◽  
Auditory Features

AbstractIn this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological background for the five language-specific studies contained in this special issue, focussing on other-repetition in English, Finnish, French, Italian, and Swedish. Other-repetition is a recurrent conversational phenomenon in which a speaker repeats all or part of what another speaker has just said, typically in the next turn. Our project focusses particularly on other-repetitions that problematise what is being repeated and typically solicit a response. Previous research has shown that such repetitions can accomplish a range of conversational actions. But how do speakers of different languages distinguish these actions? In addressing this question, we put at centre stage the resources of prosody—the nonlexical acoustic-auditory features of speech—and bring its systematic analysis into the growing field of pragmatic typology—the comparative study of language use and conversational structure. (Repetition, conversation, prosody, pragmatics, typology)*

Approaches to the Comparative Analysis of Political Leadership

1990 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis J. Edinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This article opens with some general observations on outstanding features of the current literature on political leadership, especially in the United States. It then deals briefly with conceptual problems, level of analysis issues, and counter-factual questions. This is followed by a consideration of major modes of analysis for the comparative study of political leadership. The concluding section points up the principal ways to making comparative generalization about the sources and nature of leadership in politics.

scholarly journals Zen og kunsten at spejlvende orientalisme

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørn Borup
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Reciprocal Exchange ◽  
Important Field ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
East West

This article intends to put into perspective the critique on Orientalism raised by Edward Said with a case story (beyond Said's Orient) exemplifying how the Orientalist discourse has been inverted, serving as a means of religious and cultural identification. Focusing on the religious environment around the Japanese interpreter and poluparizer of Zen Buddhism., D. T. Suzuki, it is argued that a genealogical network of interrelated persons and a reciprocal exchange of ideas and representations, placed within certain historical contexts, made it possible for him to systematically invert those Orientalist ideas, turning them into new East-West dichotomies. It is argued that neither Suzuki-zen nor Orientalism nor inverted Orientalism must be ignored but recognized and contextualized in order to reconstruct Buddhist studies as a natural and important field within the comparative study of religion.

Introducing a special issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Arbib
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Interaction Studies ◽  
Final Article ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Brain Behavior ◽  
The Brain

Abstract The paper introduces a Special Issue of Interaction Studies which includes 21 papers based on presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled “How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map.” Unifying themes include the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in monkeys, apes and humans, and an EvoDevoSocio framework for approaching biological and cultural evolution within a shared perspective. The final article of the special issue builds on the previous papers to present “The Comparative Neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) Road Map for Research on How the Brain Got Language.”

Lessons from the Andean Tribunal of Justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J. Alter ◽  
Laurence R. Helfer
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
International Courts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
International Rule

This chapter highlights five broad lessons from a series of research and findings on the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ) that contribute to the comparative study of international courts. The first is in adapting transplanted international legal institutions to local contexts. The chapter then provides that not all international courts seek to expand their influence and authority. The third lesson concerns expanding the interlocutors and compliance partners of international courts. Next, the chapter shows how the ATJ created judicial strategies for building the international rule of law in fraught environments. Finally, the fifth lesson covers defending regional intellectual property (IP) laws that protect local values and interests.

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