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linguistics --- language acquisition --- didactics --- language learning --- intercultural studies

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Social sciences --- Language and languages --- Language and languages. --- Social sciences. --- sociology --- linguistics --- education --- intercultural studies --- Linguistics

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The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and a Hindu minority in Sri Lanka raise the question of how the issues of human rights and Buddhism are related. The question applies both to the violation of basic rights in Buddhist countries and to the defence of those rights which are well-grounded in Buddhist teachings. The volume provides academic essays that reflect this up to now rather neglected issue from the point of view of the three main Buddhist traditions, Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. It provides multi-faceted and surprising insights into a rather unlikely relationship. »[The] transdisciplinary, transcultural, and transreligious approach is the strong point of this book.« Gudula Linck, Internationales Asienforum, 3-4 (2011)

Cultural studies --- Asia. --- Burma. --- China. --- Cultural Clash. --- Human Rights. --- Human. --- Intercultural Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Thailand. --- Tibet. --- Buddhism; Human Rights; Intercultural Studies; Cultural Clash; Burma; Thailand; China; Tibet; Human; Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology of Religion; Asia --- Human rights --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Buddhism --- Human Rights --- Intercultural Studies --- Cultural Clash --- Burma --- Thailand --- China --- Tibet --- Human --- Religion --- Religious Studies --- Sociology of Religion --- Asia

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"Comparison expands upon a special issue of the journal New Literary History, which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research"--

Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Methodology

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Cross-cultural studies --- Ethnology --- Hermeneutics --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Culture --- Social sciences --- Methodology