M Voyce
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 9358 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Voyce |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Voyce |
| FIRMA | VOYCE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0972-7479 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Organ Transplants and the Medicalisation of Death
This article deals with the Buddhist approach to death and the dilemmas facing Buddhists as regards the donation of their bodies after death. In particular, the article outlines the importance of the death process in providing an opportunity for transformation and Enlightenment. Firstly, the article deals with the issue of how bodies are procured for transplantation. This section notes the importance of the ‘brain death’ approach and the conseque…
Islamic inheritance in Australia and family provision law
Shari‘a in Sydney and New York
This article explores how Shari‘a is conceptualized and experienced by 50 Muslim legal professionals and leaders in Sydney and New York. It analyses qualitative data on issues concerning the experience of Muslims with Shari‘a, on how this can be improved in both countries and on how compatible Shari‘a is with their respective legal systems. While the Muslim community should not be homogenized in either of these two global cities, the analysis dis…
The limits of multiculturalism in Australia? The Shari'a flogging case of R v. Raad, Fayed, Cifci and Coskun
This article focuses on the marginal extremities - the limits - of Shari'a practices in Australia, through the example of a criminal case in which four Sydney-based Muslim men whipped a Muslim convert to punish him for his excessive consumption of drugs and alcohol. The men claimed they acted in line with the doctrines of Shari'a practice to 'purify' or absolve the victim of his sins. While the case was tried before a magistrate in a lower court,…
Law
This entry examines law, including natural and customary law, jurisprudence, and Sharia. Law is defined as a system of rules that are generally recognized by a community of people. Such rules regulate actions of members. Generally, rules must be of a general nature applicable to all similar situations, and must be enforceable by sanctions or by a punishment. Natural law is a form of philosophy of law, which regards law as being subject to higher …
Shari’a in Everyday Life in Sydney
This article explores how Shari’a is conceptualised and experienced by 27 Muslim legal professionals and leaders in Sydney. It analyses qualitative data on issues with regards to the experience of Muslims with Shari’a, on how it can be improved in Australia and on how compatible is Shari’a with the Australian legal system. It also discusses Shari’a tribunals and financial opportunity. While we do not find any convincing arguments for the push to …
Representations of Sharia in Three Global Cities
Drawing on methodologies used to analyse the negative portrayals of new religious movements in the press, this article analyses the way Sharia has been reported in key newspapers in Sydney, New York and Geneva from 2008 to 2013. It differentiates between perceptions of Islamic law as practised in these global cities, as well as in other countries, and examines the different levels of perception. The article also investigates portrayals and percep…
Michel Foucault and the “care of the self” approach to the Buddhist dharma
In line with a particular form of analysis as developed by Michel Foucault, this article proposes to elucidate a particular way of understanding Buddhist monastic culture as detailed in the rules concerning behaviour (the Vinaya), which may be called the “care of the self approach”. To develop this argument, the article first describes the nature of the Vinaya as a “training scheme” rather than a system of prohibitions or rules. Second, it examin…
Shari’a and Everyday Life in Sydney
This article investigates how Shari’a is experienced in the everyday life of 57 Muslims from Western Sydney. It focuses on their opinions about its application in Australia, and on how they negotiate their lives around the necessity or non-necessity of adhering to Shari’a principles. The findings show that their observance of Islam tends to be negotiated in their everyday life within the framework of the Australian law, to which they show strong …
The Presentation of the Vinaya within Forms of Western Scholarship
This article examines the presentation of the Pali Vinaya within a particular form of Western scholarship. The objective is to show how this presentation of ‘Vinaya as law’ promulgated the understanding that the Vinaya was an applicable code for all monastics, that the Buddha was a judge or legislator, and that rules embodied in this ‘code’ set out a compulsory form of identifiable behaviour. My argument is that to understand Buddhism and the Vin…
From Ethics to Aesthetics
This article considers the recent debate over the nature of Buddhist ethics largely conducted by scholars who have argued in different ways that Buddhist ethics may be assimilated to or may correspond with different forms of western ethical theory.I argue that the interpretation of Buddhist texts, and in particular the Vinaya, in light of western ethical theory creates misunderstanding. I argue that in each case of a supposed ethical dilemma, Bud…
Defining the conversation about Shari'a
Debates about Shari'a law and legal pluralism have come to the fore of political discourse in many western multicultural societies including Australia. The mass media, in particular newspapers, have been active in reporting on Shari'a related news items and in doing so, have made a significant contribution to shaping political debate across western nations from governmental to grassroots levels. Understanding how newspapers report on Shari'a will…
Legal Pluralism, Family Personal Laws, and the Rejection of Shari'a in Australia
In some Western countries with Muslim minorities, there has been debate in the last few years about the role of Shari'a in the context of domestic family law. In Australia there has been a negative response to the adoption of Shari'a, as this form of law has been seen as divisive, patriarchal, and inconsistent with the notion of the rule of law. Underlying these responses to Shari'a has been the implication that Islamic law was/is backward and pa…
Buddhism and the formation of the religious body
Poststructuralist debates around the body have demonstrated how our knowledge of the body is constituted in specific cultural and historical circumstances and in the context of particular relations of power. This article develops this approach to the body in Buddhism and thus attempts to show how the body has been represented within different discourses in Buddhist texts. Implicit in this account is the remedying of the failure in some Buddhist s…
Ideas of Transgression and Buddhist Monks
The Vinaya and The Dharmaśāstra
This article outlines the relationship between the Buddhist Vinaya (the rules of Buddhist monks) and the Dharmasastra in ancient India. My purpose is to show that the Vinaya should not be seen as a form of customary law, but as a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmasastra principles and precepts. I make this argument to show that particular aspects of the Vinaya and the legal relationship with the Dharmasastra are examples of the operat…
Property and the governance of the family farm in rural Australia
This article examines the social side of the property-holding relationship between rural families in rural Australia. I assume that property is a social relationship as well as form of technology. I argue that the technology of property is not neutral, but has social implications. My approach is to assume that settlers had various ideas of property, a core stratum of which was manipulated and governed by the state. At the same time the technical …
Enterprise Theology and Welfare Discourse in the United Kingdom
This article describes the development in the United Kingdom of the discourse of enterprise theology, which, it is argued, represents a mechanism of governance addressed to certain members in the community that are perceived to be in need of special help and correction. The conclusion reached in this article is that that the dominant ideas of enterprise, together with the centrality of markets, converge with the notion that the market for those i…
Shopping malls in Australia
This article reflects on the issue of the privatization of public space in relation to the recent development of a shopping mall in Sydney. The article argues that the development in Hornsby does not coincide with the need for an open and 'democratic' public space. Rather, what has developed is a privatized space, which reduces and controls diversity. This new type of physical space creates a discursive 'rupture' with older accounts of public spa…
The Market and Social Welfare in Australia
Recently several governments have contracted with religious agencies to provide welfare services. For instance in the United States, George W. Bush has furthered the idea of charitable choice and the idea that churches should develop social welfare. In Australia, with the dismantling of the Commonwealth Employment Services (C.E.S.), contracts for the provision of employment have been tendered out, with the result that the majority of services hav…
Testamentary freedom, patriarchy and inheritance of the family farm in Australia
Maori Healers in New Zealand
This article discusses the role of traditional Maori healers ( tohunga ) and analyses an attempt by the New Zealand Government to suppress them by the enactment of legislation. As with colonial governments elsewhere this attempt to suppress indigenous practices by resort to law failed both to modify native beliefs and to prevent the people from consulting traditional healers
Some Observations on the Relationship between The King and The Buddhist Order in Ancient India
The King's Enforcement of the Vinaya Pitaka
The Legal Authority of the Buddha over the Buddhist Order of Monks
Soon after Gotama the Buddha Sakyamuni obtained his Enlightenment in 531 B.C. he established the basis of a self-governing Religious Order ( Sangha ). The rules of this community ( Vinaya ) were framed and promulgated by the Buddha himself. It is the general belief that the Buddha was concerned solely with establishing a moral and spiritual teaching and that he was not law-minded. For instance, T. W. Rhys Davids maintains that: “... in the strict…
Shopping malls in Australia
This article reflects on the issue of the privatization of public space in relation to the recent development of a shopping mall in Sydney. The article argues that the development in Hornsby does not coincide with the need for an open and 'democratic' public space. Rather, what has developed is a privatized space, which reduces and controls diversity. This new type of physical space creates a discursive 'rupture' with older accounts of public spa…
Defining the conversation about Shari'a
Debates about Shari'a law and legal pluralism have come to the fore of political discourse in many western multicultural societies including Australia. The mass media, in particular newspapers, have been active in reporting on Shari'a related news items and in doing so, have made a significant contribution to shaping political debate across western nations from governmental to grassroots levels. Understanding how newspapers report on Shari'a will…
Testamentary freedom, patriarchy and inheritance of the family farm in Australia
Legal Pluralism, Family Personal Laws, and the Rejection of Shari'a in Australia
In some Western countries with Muslim minorities, there has been debate in the last few years about the role of Shari'a in the context of domestic family law. In Australia there has been a negative response to the adoption of Shari'a, as this form of law has been seen as divisive, patriarchal, and inconsistent with the notion of the rule of law. Underlying these responses to Shari'a has been the implication that Islamic law was/is backward and pa…
Shari’a and Everyday Life in Sydney
This article investigates how Shari’a is experienced in the everyday life of 57 Muslims from Western Sydney. It focuses on their opinions about its application in Australia, and on how they negotiate their lives around the necessity or non-necessity of adhering to Shari’a principles. The findings show that their observance of Islam tends to be negotiated in their everyday life within the framework of the Australian law, to which they show strong …
Property and the governance of the family farm in rural Australia
This article examines the social side of the property-holding relationship between rural families in rural Australia. I assume that property is a social relationship as well as form of technology. I argue that the technology of property is not neutral, but has social implications. My approach is to assume that settlers had various ideas of property, a core stratum of which was manipulated and governed by the state. At the same time the technical …
Representations of Sharia in Three Global Cities
Drawing on methodologies used to analyse the negative portrayals of new religious movements in the press, this article analyses the way Sharia has been reported in key newspapers in Sydney, New York and Geneva from 2008 to 2013. It differentiates between perceptions of Islamic law as practised in these global cities, as well as in other countries, and examines the different levels of perception. The article also investigates portrayals and percep…
Ideas of Transgression and Buddhist Monks
The Legal Authority of the Buddha over the Buddhist Order of Monks
Soon after Gotama the Buddha Sakyamuni obtained his Enlightenment in 531 B.C. he established the basis of a self-governing Religious Order ( Sangha ). The rules of this community ( Vinaya ) were framed and promulgated by the Buddha himself. It is the general belief that the Buddha was concerned solely with establishing a moral and spiritual teaching and that he was not law-minded. For instance, T. W. Rhys Davids maintains that: “... in the strict…
The King's Enforcement of the Vinaya Pitaka
Some Observations on the Relationship between The King and The Buddhist Order in Ancient India
Maori Healers in New Zealand
This article discusses the role of traditional Maori healers ( tohunga ) and analyses an attempt by the New Zealand Government to suppress them by the enactment of legislation. As with colonial governments elsewhere this attempt to suppress indigenous practices by resort to law failed both to modify native beliefs and to prevent the people from consulting traditional healers
Testamentary freedom, patriarchy and inheritance of the family farm in Australia
The Market and Social Welfare in Australia
Recently several governments have contracted with religious agencies to provide welfare services. For instance in the United States, George W. Bush has furthered the idea of charitable choice and the idea that churches should develop social welfare. In Australia, with the dismantling of the Commonwealth Employment Services (C.E.S.), contracts for the provision of employment have been tendered out, with the result that the majority of services hav…
Enterprise Theology and Welfare Discourse in the United Kingdom
This article describes the development in the United Kingdom of the discourse of enterprise theology, which, it is argued, represents a mechanism of governance addressed to certain members in the community that are perceived to be in need of special help and correction. The conclusion reached in this article is that that the dominant ideas of enterprise, together with the centrality of markets, converge with the notion that the market for those i…
Shopping malls in Australia
This article reflects on the issue of the privatization of public space in relation to the recent development of a shopping mall in Sydney. The article argues that the development in Hornsby does not coincide with the need for an open and 'democratic' public space. Rather, what has developed is a privatized space, which reduces and controls diversity. This new type of physical space creates a discursive 'rupture' with older accounts of public spa…
The Vinaya and The Dharmaśāstra
This article outlines the relationship between the Buddhist Vinaya (the rules of Buddhist monks) and the Dharmasastra in ancient India. My purpose is to show that the Vinaya should not be seen as a form of customary law, but as a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmasastra principles and precepts. I make this argument to show that particular aspects of the Vinaya and the legal relationship with the Dharmasastra are examples of the operat…
Property and the governance of the family farm in rural Australia
This article examines the social side of the property-holding relationship between rural families in rural Australia. I assume that property is a social relationship as well as form of technology. I argue that the technology of property is not neutral, but has social implications. My approach is to assume that settlers had various ideas of property, a core stratum of which was manipulated and governed by the state. At the same time the technical …
Ideas of Transgression and Buddhist Monks
Legal Pluralism, Family Personal Laws, and the Rejection of Shari'a in Australia
In some Western countries with Muslim minorities, there has been debate in the last few years about the role of Shari'a in the context of domestic family law. In Australia there has been a negative response to the adoption of Shari'a, as this form of law has been seen as divisive, patriarchal, and inconsistent with the notion of the rule of law. Underlying these responses to Shari'a has been the implication that Islamic law was/is backward and pa…
Buddhism and the formation of the religious body
Poststructuralist debates around the body have demonstrated how our knowledge of the body is constituted in specific cultural and historical circumstances and in the context of particular relations of power. This article develops this approach to the body in Buddhism and thus attempts to show how the body has been represented within different discourses in Buddhist texts. Implicit in this account is the remedying of the failure in some Buddhist s…
Defining the conversation about Shari'a
Debates about Shari'a law and legal pluralism have come to the fore of political discourse in many western multicultural societies including Australia. The mass media, in particular newspapers, have been active in reporting on Shari'a related news items and in doing so, have made a significant contribution to shaping political debate across western nations from governmental to grassroots levels. Understanding how newspapers report on Shari'a will…
The Presentation of the Vinaya within Forms of Western Scholarship
This article examines the presentation of the Pali Vinaya within a particular form of Western scholarship. The objective is to show how this presentation of ‘Vinaya as law’ promulgated the understanding that the Vinaya was an applicable code for all monastics, that the Buddha was a judge or legislator, and that rules embodied in this ‘code’ set out a compulsory form of identifiable behaviour. My argument is that to understand Buddhism and the Vin…
From Ethics to Aesthetics
This article considers the recent debate over the nature of Buddhist ethics largely conducted by scholars who have argued in different ways that Buddhist ethics may be assimilated to or may correspond with different forms of western ethical theory.I argue that the interpretation of Buddhist texts, and in particular the Vinaya, in light of western ethical theory creates misunderstanding. I argue that in each case of a supposed ethical dilemma, Bud…
Shari’a and Everyday Life in Sydney
This article investigates how Shari’a is experienced in the everyday life of 57 Muslims from Western Sydney. It focuses on their opinions about its application in Australia, and on how they negotiate their lives around the necessity or non-necessity of adhering to Shari’a principles. The findings show that their observance of Islam tends to be negotiated in their everyday life within the framework of the Australian law, to which they show strong …
Law
This entry examines law, including natural and customary law, jurisprudence, and Sharia. Law is defined as a system of rules that are generally recognized by a community of people. Such rules regulate actions of members. Generally, rules must be of a general nature applicable to all similar situations, and must be enforceable by sanctions or by a punishment. Natural law is a form of philosophy of law, which regards law as being subject to higher …
Shari’a in Everyday Life in Sydney
This article explores how Shari’a is conceptualised and experienced by 27 Muslim legal professionals and leaders in Sydney. It analyses qualitative data on issues with regards to the experience of Muslims with Shari’a, on how it can be improved in Australia and on how compatible is Shari’a with the Australian legal system. It also discusses Shari’a tribunals and financial opportunity. While we do not find any convincing arguments for the push to …
Representations of Sharia in Three Global Cities
Drawing on methodologies used to analyse the negative portrayals of new religious movements in the press, this article analyses the way Sharia has been reported in key newspapers in Sydney, New York and Geneva from 2008 to 2013. It differentiates between perceptions of Islamic law as practised in these global cities, as well as in other countries, and examines the different levels of perception. The article also investigates portrayals and percep…
Michel Foucault and the “care of the self” approach to the Buddhist dharma
In line with a particular form of analysis as developed by Michel Foucault, this article proposes to elucidate a particular way of understanding Buddhist monastic culture as detailed in the rules concerning behaviour (the Vinaya), which may be called the “care of the self approach”. To develop this argument, the article first describes the nature of the Vinaya as a “training scheme” rather than a system of prohibitions or rules. Second, it examin…
Islamic inheritance in Australia and family provision law
Shari‘a in Sydney and New York
This article explores how Shari‘a is conceptualized and experienced by 50 Muslim legal professionals and leaders in Sydney and New York. It analyses qualitative data on issues concerning the experience of Muslims with Shari‘a, on how this can be improved in both countries and on how compatible Shari‘a is with their respective legal systems. While the Muslim community should not be homogenized in either of these two global cities, the analysis dis…
The limits of multiculturalism in Australia? The Shari'a flogging case of R v. Raad, Fayed, Cifci and Coskun
This article focuses on the marginal extremities - the limits - of Shari'a practices in Australia, through the example of a criminal case in which four Sydney-based Muslim men whipped a Muslim convert to punish him for his excessive consumption of drugs and alcohol. The men claimed they acted in line with the doctrines of Shari'a practice to 'purify' or absolve the victim of his sins. While the case was tried before a magistrate in a lower court,…
Organ Transplants and the Medicalisation of Death
This article deals with the Buddhist approach to death and the dilemmas facing Buddhists as regards the donation of their bodies after death. In particular, the article outlines the importance of the death process in providing an opportunity for transformation and Enlightenment. Firstly, the article deals with the issue of how bodies are procured for transplantation. This section notes the importance of the ‘brain death’ approach and the conseque…
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