JBE Publication News, June 1, 1995

[d.keown at gold.ac.uk]

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JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS
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GENERAL EDITORS
Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish
 
TECHNICAL EDITOR
Wayne Husted
 
EDITORIAL BOARD
Masao Abe, George Bond, David Chappell, Lance Cousins, Richard
Gombrich, Charles Hallisey, Richard Hayes, Christopher Ives, Leslie
Kawamura, Winston King, Reginald Ray, Robert Thurman, Paul
Williams.
 
The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is pleased to announce the
publication of:
 
A BUDDHIST RESPONSE TO THE NATURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS by Kenneth Inada.
 
Vol. 2 (1995) pp.55-66. Filename: Inada.txt. Publication date: 1st June 1995
 
[Note: this article is also available in HTML and (experimentally) the
cross-platform Adobe Acrobat format from the journal's WWW sites on 2nd
June, 1995].
 
All enquiries to jbe-ed at psu.edu
 
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NEW MEMBER APPOINTED TO EDITORIAL BOARD
 
The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is very pleased to welcome LANCE COUSINS to
the Editorial Board. Long respected as one of the world's foremost scholars
of Pali Buddhist materials, he is widely published and acclaimed for his
work on the early Buddhist tradition. Lance will be giving a paper entitled
"Going beyond good and evil?" at the Seventh International Seminar on
Buddhism and Leadership for Peace in Honolulu, June 3-8.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT
 
The General Editors and Technical Editor of the Journal of Buddhist
Ethics will be presenting a Special Topics Forum at the forthcoming
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, to be held in
Philadelphia in November 1995. The session is scheduled for
Saturday, November 18th, 3:45-6:15 p.m.
 
Electronic Publication: Academic Journals in Religious Studies
 
Presiding: Charles S. Prebish, Pennsylvania State University
Presenter: Wayne R. Husted, Pennsylvania State University
Presenter: Damien Keown, Goldsmiths College (University of London)
 
Description: The use of emerging technologies for teaching and
research in Religious Studies is a topic that is rapidly gaining
interest among scholars. In particular, electronic publication via
the Internet has received much recent attention. While interest in
academic publication in Religious Studies is growing, the use
actually made of this technology is currently minimal. This may
well be in part due to many scholars' unfamiliarity with the
medium. Consequently, this Special Topics Firum will introduce
scholars to the specifics of creating scholarly, electronic
journals in Religious Studies, focusing on the Journal of Buddhist
Ethics, the first such journal in the field. The session will
emphasize not only the technologies involved, but also the
processes by which an editorial board can be constructed,
manuscripts solicited, and a subscriber base established. The
presenters and presiding member of this experimental session
represent the primary editorial staff of the Journal of Buddhist
Ethics.