Reflections on Multiple Modernities

Reflections on Multiple Modernities

Author: Dominic Sachsenmaier

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9789004127975

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Multiple Modernities is a departure from the "classic" sociological homogenization theories. The edition presents an interdisciplinary discussion of the topic in sociological, historical and economic dimensions. It explores culturally specific forms of modernity with a focus on China and Europe.


Multiple Modernities

Multiple Modernities

Author: Gunnar Skirbekk

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9629964872

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Multiple Modernities approaches the concept of modernity through two historical phases of Norawy. The first study focuses on the interplay between Lutheran state officials and popular movements in the nineteenth century as an essential aspect of the growth of social democracy. The second examination of modernization centers on twentiethcentury Norway after World War II. The book is balanced between theoretical remarks on conceptual issues, an assessment of modernization processes, and a study of basic epistemic and structural challenges that confront us in our time. Scandinavian countries are often noted as cases of successful modernization processes. However, these references to a “Scandinavian model” tend to focus on the midtwentieth century after World War II. In Skirbekk’s view, the uniqueness of modernization processes in Scandinavia, for instance in Norway, is better conceived historically, not least by focusing on the nineteenth century with a continuation into the twentieth century.


Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

Author: Kristina Stoeckl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317093259

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Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'. It draws upon case study material from Africa, The Middle East, Russia and South America to examine the question of whether modernity, democracy and secularism are universalistic concepts or are, on the contrary, unique to Western civilization, whilst considering the relationship of postsecularism to the varied paths of modern development. Drawing together work from leading social theorists, this critical theoretical contribution to current debates will appeal to sociologists, social theorists and political scientists, with interests in religion, secularization and postsecularization theory and transitions to modernity in the contemporary globalized world.


Multiple Modernities and Good Governance

Multiple Modernities and Good Governance

Author: Thomas Meyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1351273868

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This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions. First taking stock of the discussions of the concept itself, the book then connects the concept to more recently developed analytical and normative concepts that concretize it, before finally opening up a discussion about its implications and consequences for the political dimension. Written by outstanding scholars in the field, the book addresses four principal concepts – Good Society, Good Governance, Human Security and Varieties of Capitalism. It determines whether and to what degree these concepts enable us to discover the commonalities and differences that distinguish the emerging multiple modernities in our time with respect to their political implications and consequences. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political theory, political economy, international relations, comparative politics and sociology.


Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

Author: Dr Kristina Stoeckl

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-01-28

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1409472388

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Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'. It draws upon case study material from Africa, The Middle East, Russia and South America to examine the question of whether modernity, democracy and secularism are universalistic concepts or are, on the contrary, unique to Western civilization, whilst considering the relationship of postsecularism to the varied paths of modern development. Drawing together work from leading social theorists, this critical theoretical contribution to current debates will appeal to sociologists, social theorists and political scientists, with interests in religion, secularization and postsecularization theory and transitions to modernity in the contemporary globalized world.


Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities : [a collection of essays]. 2(2003)

Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities : [a collection of essays]. 2(2003)

Author: Shemuʾel Noaḥ Aizenshṭadṭ

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9789004130197

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This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931).


Delimiting Modernities

Delimiting Modernities

Author: Sven Trakulhun

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0739199498

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This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt’s “multiple modernities” which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different disciplines and regional settings, but who also engage with their research topics in a variety of approaches and at different levels of analysis. The volume thus transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.


Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities

Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities

Author: Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-12-05

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 900449815X

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Can studying an artist’s migration provide the key to unlocking a “global” history of art? The artistic biography of Michail Grobman and his group, which was active in Israel in the 1970s, open up this vital new perspective and analytical mode.


Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities

Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities

Author: Paul S. Chung

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 3319581961

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This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry. It elucidates a postcolonial study of religion in the context of multiple modernities.


Ancient Judaism

Ancient Judaism

Author: Max Weber

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 143911918X

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Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.