John D’arcy May
Biographic Data
| ID | 4418724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D’arcy May |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D’arcy |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6533-6718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Earthing Theology
The encounter of Aboriginal Australians with European settlers led to appalling injustices, in which Christian churches were in part complicit. At the root of these injustices was the failure to comprehend the Aborigines’ relationship to the land. In their mythic vision, known as The Dreaming, land is suffused with religious meaning and therefore sacred. It took two hundred years for this to be acknowledged in British-Australian law (Mabo judgeme…
From Comparative to Interreligious Theology
Perry Schmidt‐Leukel has proposed a “fractal” theory to correlate factors which are replicated across religious traditions. His aim is to develop notions of religious and theological pluralism which have become locked into a somewhat sterile conflict with “inclusivism.” A wide range of thinkers from a variety of religious traditions respond to his initiative, some applauding it, others criticising it as being too abstract to do justice to the par…
Time and History as Parameters of Liberation
‘Historicity’, the realisation that cultural values, religious beliefs and scientific ideas are historically conditioned, transformed the study of religions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fusion of ontology, phenomenology and hermeneutics revealed an existential dimension of historicity, which was expressed innovatively—if enigmatically—by the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in his critiques of Husserl and Heidegger. Underlyin…
Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand, Mind and Life
Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand, Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality. Columbia University Press, New York, 2009, pp. 218, ISBN 978-0231145503 (Hbk).
Authority in Buddhism and Christianity
Faith, Ethics, and Communication
Four very different books on the relationship between faith and ethics are reviewed from the point of view of coping morally and intellectually with difference. Marty focuses on the stranger in pluralist societies and finds that more than mere tolerance is needed as a response to religious difference. Humility and hospitality draw more deeply on the resources of the religions as a basis for true civility. Muers explores the communicative possibil…
Conversion and Religious Identity in Buddhism and Christianity
Buddhists, Christians and the Doctrine of Creation
The Elusive Other
Christian Perceptions of Buddhism
Strange Encounters
Jesus through Buddhist Eyes
Zen with Teeth
Reconsidering the Grounds for Buddhist-Christian Dialogic Communication
Lauren Pfister, Reconsidering the Grounds for Buddhist-Christian Dialogic Communication: A Review of John D'Arcy May's "Meaning, Consensus and Dialogue in Buddhist-Christian Communication", Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 6 (1986), pp. 121-138
Defining Democracy
For a short, definite, non-sectarian definition of democracy, I nominate Responsive Rule qua necessary correspondence between acts of governance and the desires with respect to those acts of the persons who are affected. This definition seems noteworthy, and perhaps commendable, for essentiality, or concentrating on the nature of democracy as distinct from its concomitants and merits; for generality, or congeniality with the notion that democracy…
The malpractice of Australian journalism
Locating democracy
(1976). Locating democracy: C. B. Macpherson's deviant estimate. Politics: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 165-169
Rural over‐representation
(1975). Rural over‐representation: Pros and cons in recent Australian debate. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 132-145
The case for a media commission
Opinion Structure of Political Parties
Party Democracy
Democracy, Party "Evolution," Duverger
Student Politics.Seymour Martin Lipset
Democracy, Organization, Michels
This article marks an attempt to clarify the teachings of Robert Michels. It suggests that inPolitical Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy(1915), Michels presented a favorable account of the compatibility of organization and democracy.Other treatments attribute to Michels a thesis of the following kind: (1) Large, organizationally complex associations, compared with small, simple associations, are like…
Opinion Structure of Political Parties
Defining Democracy
For a short, definite, non-sectarian definition of democracy, I nominate Responsive Rule qua necessary correspondence between acts of governance and the desires with respect to those acts of the persons who are affected. This definition seems noteworthy, and perhaps commendable, for essentiality, or concentrating on the nature of democracy as distinct from its concomitants and merits; for generality, or congeniality with the notion that democracy…
Democracy, Organization, Michels
This article marks an attempt to clarify the teachings of Robert Michels. It suggests that inPolitical Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy(1915), Michels presented a favorable account of the compatibility of organization and democracy.Other treatments attribute to Michels a thesis of the following kind: (1) Large, organizationally complex associations, compared with small, simple associations, are like…
Rural over‐representation
(1975). Rural over‐representation: Pros and cons in recent Australian debate. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 132-145
Democracy, Organization, Michels
This article marks an attempt to clarify the teachings of Robert Michels. It suggests that inPolitical Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy(1915), Michels presented a favorable account of the compatibility of organization and democracy.Other treatments attribute to Michels a thesis of the following kind: (1) Large, organizationally complex associations, compared with small, simple associations, are like…
Student Politics.Seymour Martin Lipset
Party Democracy
Democracy, Party "Evolution," Duverger
Opinion Structure of Political Parties
Rural over‐representation
(1975). Rural over‐representation: Pros and cons in recent Australian debate. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 132-145
The case for a media commission
Locating democracy
(1976). Locating democracy: C. B. Macpherson's deviant estimate. Politics: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 165-169
The malpractice of Australian journalism
Defining Democracy
For a short, definite, non-sectarian definition of democracy, I nominate Responsive Rule qua necessary correspondence between acts of governance and the desires with respect to those acts of the persons who are affected. This definition seems noteworthy, and perhaps commendable, for essentiality, or concentrating on the nature of democracy as distinct from its concomitants and merits; for generality, or congeniality with the notion that democracy…
Reconsidering the Grounds for Buddhist-Christian Dialogic Communication
Lauren Pfister, Reconsidering the Grounds for Buddhist-Christian Dialogic Communication: A Review of John D'Arcy May's "Meaning, Consensus and Dialogue in Buddhist-Christian Communication", Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 6 (1986), pp. 121-138
Zen with Teeth
Jesus through Buddhist Eyes
Strange Encounters
Christian Perceptions of Buddhism
The Elusive Other
Buddhists, Christians and the Doctrine of Creation
Conversion and Religious Identity in Buddhism and Christianity
Faith, Ethics, and Communication
Four very different books on the relationship between faith and ethics are reviewed from the point of view of coping morally and intellectually with difference. Marty focuses on the stranger in pluralist societies and finds that more than mere tolerance is needed as a response to religious difference. Humility and hospitality draw more deeply on the resources of the religions as a basis for true civility. Muers explores the communicative possibil…
Authority in Buddhism and Christianity
Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand, Mind and Life
Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand, Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality. Columbia University Press, New York, 2009, pp. 218, ISBN 978-0231145503 (Hbk).
Time and History as Parameters of Liberation
‘Historicity’, the realisation that cultural values, religious beliefs and scientific ideas are historically conditioned, transformed the study of religions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fusion of ontology, phenomenology and hermeneutics revealed an existential dimension of historicity, which was expressed innovatively—if enigmatically—by the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in his critiques of Husserl and Heidegger. Underlyin…
From Comparative to Interreligious Theology
Perry Schmidt‐Leukel has proposed a “fractal” theory to correlate factors which are replicated across religious traditions. His aim is to develop notions of religious and theological pluralism which have become locked into a somewhat sterile conflict with “inclusivism.” A wide range of thinkers from a variety of religious traditions respond to his initiative, some applauding it, others criticising it as being too abstract to do justice to the par…
Earthing Theology
The encounter of Aboriginal Australians with European settlers led to appalling injustices, in which Christian churches were in part complicit. At the root of these injustices was the failure to comprehend the Aborigines’ relationship to the land. In their mythic vision, known as The Dreaming, land is suffused with religious meaning and therefore sacred. It took two hundred years for this to be acknowledged in British-Australian law (Mabo judgeme…
Philosophy (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Theology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Buddhism (6 works) · Democracy (5 works)