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Multiple Modernities

Author : Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351504270

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Multiple Modernities by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Pdf

How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of globalization? What, in short, is the nature of modernity? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to Multiple Modernities.Following the theme in an earlier work edited by Shmuel Eisenstadt, Public Spheres and Collective Identities, this book challenges conventional notions of how the world has changed politically, socially, and economically. The authors consider the meaning of modernity in contexts as different as communist Russia, modern India, the Muslim world, Latin America, China and East Asia, and the United States. Miscegenation, transnational migration, technological developments, and changing communications have shifted the ground on which theories of society were once built; political system, diaspora groups, religion, and ""classical"" theories of modernity have to be reconsidered in a new context.Authors and chapters include: S.N. Eisenstadt, ""Multiple Modernities""; Bjrn Wittrock, ""Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition""; Johann P. Arnason, ""Communism and Modernity""; Nilfer Gle, ""Snapshots of Islamic Modernities""; Dale F. Eickelman, ""Island and the Languages of Modernity""; Sudipta Kaviraj, ""Modernity and Politics in India""; Stanley J. Tambiah, ""Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities""; Tu Weiming, ""Implications of the Jrise of 'Confucian' East Asia""; Jrgen Heideking, ""The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War""; and Renato Ortiz, ""From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity.""Written in clear and non-technical language for both a scholarly and general audience, this volume confronts the problem of just what constitutes the common core of modernit

Alternative Modernities

Author : Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0822327147

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A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this volume of essays examines modernity from transnational and transcultural perspectives, holding that within different cultures, there are different starting points of the transition to modernity that lead to differen

Conversion to Modernities

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136661839

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Conversion to Modernities by Peter van der Veer Pdf

Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world. This volume seeks to relate Europe and its Others by exploring conversion both in modern Europe and in the colonized world.

Global Modernities

Author : Mike Featherstone,Scott Lash,Roland Robertson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446228838

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Global Modernities by Mike Featherstone,Scott Lash,Roland Robertson Pdf

Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state′ and `national sovereignty′. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.

Contemporary Asian Modernities

Author : Eva Kit-Wah Man
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Asia
ISBN : 303430093X

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This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on «Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity» hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As «modernity» has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of «contemporary», «Asia» and «modernities» as they relate to the global trend of adopting capitalism. They probe into questions related to modernity as well as global modernity, ranging from China in particular to Asia in general. As reflected in the pluriversal meanings in the title, the book endeavours to make critical inquiries into the concept of modernity/modernities from different perspectives.

Modernities

Author : Peter J. Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745668741

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Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: today's consumer modernity preceded by the industrial modernity of the nineteenth century which was itself preceded by mercantile modernity.

Social Theory and Later Modernities

Author : Ibrahim Kaya
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853238987

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Social Theory and Later Modernities by Ibrahim Kaya Pdf

Focusing specifically on the Kemalist project to create a modern Turkish secular nation-state, Ibrahim Kaya analyses its historical roots, the role of concepts of ethnicity and nation and the configuration of state, society and economy in the new Turkish republic.

Regional Modernities

Author : K. Sivaramakrishnan,Arun Agrawal
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804744157

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Regional Modernities by K. Sivaramakrishnan,Arun Agrawal Pdf

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Indian Modernities

Author : Nishat Zaidi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000901757

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Indian Modernities by Nishat Zaidi Pdf

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.

Varieties of Multiple Modernities

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004306714

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Varieties of Multiple Modernities by Anonim Pdf

This volume collects new research about multiple modernities and globalization. It shows the new turn of sociological theory in the contemporary scene with respect to multiple modernities, multi-centrism, transglobality, hybridization and multiculturalism, comparative cultures, and explores it as a new area of societal communication.

Modernities, Memory and Mutations

Author : Abby Day,Mia Lövheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317094487

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Modernities, Memory and Mutations by Abby Day,Mia Lövheim Pdf

Grace Davie, one of the world’s most influential scholars in contemporary sociology of religion, has furthered a tradition developed by David Martin and others in comparative sociology of religion and modernity in European and international perspective. Davie’s writings on belief and belonging, particularly in a context outside active Church participation, have contributed important understandings of the cultural role of religion as memory and practice in contemporary European societies. Through her most recent work on new roles of religion in relation to the political, legal and welfare sectors of society, she has addressed debates on the resurgence of religion and the ’post-secular condition’. Modernities, Memory and Mutations presents an overview and critical engagement with contemporary themes in the sociology of religion which will inform current and forthcoming generations of scholars. Reflecting on how Grace Davie’s contributions have influenced their own work and wider debates in the field, leading international scholars engage with themes Davie has critically explored across religious studies and mainstream sociology evolving a new research agenda for sociology of religion.

Exploring Indian Modernities

Author : Leïla Choukroune,Parul Bhandari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811075575

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Exploring Indian Modernities by Leïla Choukroune,Parul Bhandari Pdf

This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities. The two broad foci in this book are: (a) The dynamism of modern institutions in India, delineating the specific ways in which ideas of modernity have come to define these institutions and how institutional innovations have shaped modernities; and (b) perspectives on everyday practices of modernities and the cultural constituents of being modern. This book provides an enriching read by bringing together original papers from diverse disciplines and from renowned as well as upcoming scholars.

Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities

Author : Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004531499

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Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Pdf

These essays illuminate the processes of world history, modern civlizations and modes globalization from a comparative sociological point of view. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931).

Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities

Author : Heidemarie Winkel,Angelika Poferl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429844768

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Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities by Heidemarie Winkel,Angelika Poferl Pdf

Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a paradigmatic example of it. Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities critically engages with these ‘Western eyes’ and shifts the focus towards the global variety of gendered socialities and hierarchically entangled social histories. This is conceptualised as multiple gender cultures within plural modernities. The authors examine the multifaceted realities of gendered life in varying contexts across the globe. Bringing together different perspectives, the volume provides a rereading of the social fabric of gender in contrast to androcentrist-modernist as well as orientalist representations of ‘the’ gendered Other. The key questions explored by this volume are: which social mechanisms lead to conflicting or shifting gender dynamics against the backdrop of global entanglements and interdependencies, and to what extent are neocolonial gender regimes at work in this regard? How are varying gender cultures sociohistorically and culturally structured, and how are they connected within (global) power relations? How can established hierarchies and asymmetries become an object of criticism? How can historical, cultural, social, and political specificities be analysed without gendered and other reifications? That way, the volume aims to promote border thinking in sociological understanding of social reality towards multiple gender cultures and plural modernities.

Global Modernities

Author : Mike Featherstone,Scott Lash,Roland Robertson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848608948

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Global Modernities by Mike Featherstone,Scott Lash,Roland Robertson Pdf

Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state′ and `national sovereignty′. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.